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Driving to the Moon

If you could get in your car right now and start driving nonstop to the moon at 55 miles per hour (88 kph), you would get there in a little over six months (27 weeks). If your car could get 20 miles per gallon (8.5 km per liter) on this trip, you would need 12,500 gallons (47,300 liters) of fuel.

Author jeffPosted on October 13, 2018Categories Astronomy, Science, Transportation, Travel and GeographyLeave a comment on Driving to the Moon

The Cost of Parking a Car

In some American cities it costs as much as $900 per month to rent a place to park your car.

Author jeffPosted on September 18, 2018Categories Bad Things, Money, TransportationLeave a comment on The Cost of Parking a Car

Money Lost on Freeways

In Los Angeles $203,979 of taxpayers’ money was spent to help people lost on the freeways.

Author jeffPosted on September 17, 2018Categories Money, TransportationLeave a comment on Money Lost on Freeways

Price of a Car

In the 1920’s you could buy a brand new car for under $300.

In 1931 a brand new Chevrolet cost $623.

Model T Ford, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Author jeffPosted on September 17, 2018Categories American History, History, Money, TransportationLeave a comment on Price of a Car

New Car Smell

Used car dealers can buy a bottle of “new car smell” to make their secondhand cars smell like new.

Author jeffPosted on September 10, 2018Categories Money, TransportationLeave a comment on New Car Smell

Amarjit Singh

In New York City, there are 37 taxi drivers who are each named Amarjit Singh.

Author jeffPosted on September 10, 2018Categories Transportation, Travel and GeographyLeave a comment on Amarjit Singh

John Dunlop

The first car tires were evolved from an invention by John Dunlop, a veterinarian. In those days (1888), doctors and vets had to make their own gloves from liquid rubber. He adopted the technology to make air-filled tires for his son’s tricycle.

John Dunlop
Author jeffPosted on September 8, 2018Categories History, Money, Technology, Transportation, World HistoryLeave a comment on John Dunlop

Johann Hurlinger

A man named Johann Hurlinger walked from Vienna to Paris. This would not qualify as one of the world’s amazing feats except he walked the whole way on his hands.

Peace Pagoda in Vienna, Austria, public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Author jeffPosted on September 8, 2018Categories Feats, Transportation, Travel and GeographyLeave a comment on Johann Hurlinger

Walking Energy

Walking uses more power than a 150-watt lightbulb.

Author jeffPosted on September 2, 2018Categories Medicine, Sports and Games, TransportationLeave a comment on Walking Energy

Black Gondolas

All gondolas must be black in Venice, Italy. Only government officials are allowed fancy colors.

Author jeffPosted on September 2, 2018Categories Crime & The Law, Transportation, Travel and GeographyLeave a comment on Black Gondolas

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