The line that divides a road could be considered one of the most important safety devices ever implemented. It makes sure that cars and trucks travel on the correct side ...

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They could have made school buses any color; red, green, purple, white with stripes, or rainbow. Why, then, are school buses yellow? Was it because yellow is a happy color, ...

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It’s known as “Black Gold” and “Texas Tea,” and it fuels our cars, airplanes, and ships so they can go, but what we get from an ordinary barrel of crude ...

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Bahnfrend/Wikimedia On June 21, 2011, a record was set in Western Australia that pushed the edge of technology in rail travel. This feat became the longest train in the world, ...

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Taking in the scenery out of an airplane window is one of the most enjoyable things about air travel. You may have never thought about the shape of the windows, ...

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Rama/Wikimedia It was a story similar to the mysterious disappearance of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 out of Kuala Lampur on March 8, 2014, in that a huge piece of modern ...

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It’s a question we often don’t think about, but we pass these things every day. It’s the eight-sided stop sign, the red sign with the white lettering that indicates that ...

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About 65% of the world drives on the right side of the road. Everyone else drives on the left. What is the origin of driving on the left side of ...

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When airplanes reach the end of their lives, they have to go somewhere. Nowhere is this better on display than Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona. This is a ...

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The Panama Canal underwent an incredible expansion in 2016 that added a third set of locks and doubled the capacity of the canal. Here are some other things to know ...

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Another issue of the Odd Stew: oddities plus other bizarre, strange, and fascinating things that have happened in the news that you may have missed. He Almost Got Away With ...

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