The first group to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame were The Coasters.
The first steam powered train was invented by Robert Stephenson. It was called the Rocket.
In France, it is illegal for a person to kiss another on railways
Armored knights raised their visors to identify themselves when they rode past their king. This custom has become the modern military salute.
A cat uses whiskers to determine if a space is too small to squeeze through. The whiskers act as antennae, helping the animal to judge the precise width of any passage.
The total number of dots on a pair of dice is 42.
Dr. Samuel A. Mudd was the physician who set the leg of Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth... and whose shame created the expression for ignominy, "His name is Mudd."
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Did you know that a if mouse (or a rat) can squeeze its head into a space it can get its WHOLE body in - yucky, but true
It was a triplane and launched from a teather!