1. A special airline allows only pets as passengers.
2. A cheetah can accelerate faster than a race car.
3. A sailboat made of 12,500 soda bottles sailed from San Francisco, California, U.S.A., to Australia.
4. Cars didn't come with ignition keys until 1949-
5. Two pilots set a world record by flying around the world in a helicopter in 11 days, 7 hours.
6. In 1930, two rien drove a car from New York City ta Los Angeles and hack using only the reverse geai: Tt. touk them 42 days.
7.A Minnesota, U.S.A., motorcyclist got a speeding ticket for going 205 miles per hour (330 kph), which police believe is a state record for breaking the speed limit.
8. The first stearn-run vehicle was a tractor, built in 1769. It could go 2.5 miles per hour (4 kph).
9. Horsepower is a unit of measurement for how much power an engine has. One horse can do 33,000 foot-pounds of work every minute, and has 1 horsepower. A Honda Civic bas 140 horsepower.
10. The first true automobile had just three wheels.
11. Aircraft are able to write in the sky by adding a special oil to a plane's exhaiust A company in New York, U.S.A., writes more than 50 marriage proposals in the sky every year.
12. Japan holds the current title for fastest passenger train, which has reached speeds of 361 miles per hour (581 kph).
13. U.S. Route 66 was nicknamed the Main Street of America. In 1926 it was designated as a public thoroughfare to link the Midwest, Southwest, and southern California.
14. Pench Springs, Arizona, U.S.A., was the inspiration for Radiator Springs, the towin in the Disney Pixar movie Cars, Like the fictional town, it was once a Route 66 gem, but turned into a ghost town after it was bypassed by an interstate.
15. The first car wheels were bicycle wheels.
16. The first gas-encine car had the power of three horses and could travel at 20 miles per hour (30 kph).
17. Early cars had additional passenger seats in front of the driver seat, not behind it. The driver had to peer around heads to see the road!
18. Starting in 1901, most coentries began using numbered license plates, but drivers had to make their own-and they often used cardboard!
19. The "Clarion Bel" was an early version of today's car hom and was rung to tell pedestrians to get out of the way. Drivers operated the bell with their foot so their hands could stay on the steering wheel.
20. Before there were turn signals and taillights on cars, drivers used hand signals to tell other cars which direction they were headed or if they were slowing down.
21. Costing around $500, Henry Ford's Model T Ford was the first afford- able car: 250,000 Model T's were sold in five years.
22. Model T Förds only came in one color-black. It kept painting prices down to just use one color.
23. Before headlights came along in the 1920s, cars were equipped with candle lamps.
24. Racing cars use.smooth tires called "slicks." The rubber heats up and gets sticky during a race to provide grip on the track.
25. Most American car horns honk in the musical key of F.
26. The first American to get a speeding ticket was a New York City taxi driver. He was going 12 miles per hour (19 kph).
27. The world's first traffic signal was installed in London in 1868 before cars were invented. It directed horse-drawn carriages.
28. In 1920. Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A., was the world's first city to use red, green. and yellow lights to control traffic. Traffic officers had to push a button or flip a switch to change the signal.
29. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, U.S.A., put up the first parking meters in 1935. It cost a nickel per hour to park.
30. The first McDonald's drive-thru opened in 1975 near an Arizona, U.S.A., military base. Soldiers couldn't get out of their cars in uniform so the drive-thru solved the problem.
31. A man once set a world record by riding a bumper car for 24 hours,
32. The Smart For Two city car is the shortest two-seater production car. It is 8 feet (2.5 m) long. A Toyota Camry is almost twice as long.
33. The Toyota Corolla is the world's best-selling automobile. More than 32 million have been built.
34. The first motorcycles had small steam engines,
35. Pistons in motorcycle engines can go up and down 10 times in a second.
36. Motorcycles don't have a reverse gear.
37. Theodore Roosevelt was the first US. President to own a car.
38. The first cable car debuted in 1873 after the inventor saw horses struggling to pull horse cars up San Francisco's step cobblestone streets. The cars latch on to an underground moving cable that; propels them forward.
39. The world's largest ferry can hold 230 cars and 300 freight vehicles. It travels from Holland to Britain in six and a half hours.
40. The world's fastest car, called the Bloodhound, is set to release in 2013, It is expected to reach a maximum speed of 1,000 miles per hour (1,609 kph).
41. The U.S. Marines have full-size helicopters that operate by remote control and can deliver goods to isolated bases.
42. A new airplane equipped with anti-turbulence technology adjusts for bunps to eep you from getting motion sickness.
43. A Frenchman has designed a futuristic luxury yacht that can transform into an airplane. Its four sails fold into wings and its bullet shape allows it to glide through the air and sea.
44. Swiss engineers designed an airplane with enough solar cells to power the electric motors on board for 24 hours of continuous flight.
45. Steam locomotives get their power from steam generated from fuel burned in boilers. It takes three hours to make enough steam to move a steam locomotive.
46. The east to west U.S. rallroad was completed in 1869. The final railroad spike driven into the rail was made of gold.
47. A car was invented to run on wood chips.
48. The Sydney Harbor Bridge in Australia is the world's largest steel arch bridgeits arch stretches 440 feet (134 m) above the sea below.
49. Actor Tom Hanks played six roles in the movie The Polar Express.
50. The Qinghai-Tibet Railway is the world's highest railway, traveling up to 15,220 feet (5,072 m). Passenjers are pravided oxygen to combat alti- tude sickness.
51. The "Chunnel"-an underground tunnel in the English Channel-links England with Bellgium and France. The train traveling through it reaches speeds of more than 200 miles per hour(322 kph).
52. Japan introduced the first modern high-speed train in 1964, which was coined the "Bullet Train.
53. There are 31.180 turnstīles in the New York City subway system. The busiest station is Times Square,
54, People take 3.2 billion rides on Tokyo subways every year.
55. About two billion vehicles have crossed over the Golden Gate Bridge since it opened in 1937.
56. The 26.4-mile (42.5-km) Jiaozhou Bay Bridge in China is the world's longest bridge over open water. If you run from end to end, you will have runa marathoni
57, The Sik Road wasn't an actual road-it was an ancient 4,000-mile (6,400-km) trade route that carrried goods betwreen Rome and China,
58. Abbey Road is a street in London the Beatles were famousy photographed crossing. The photo appears on their album with the same name,
59. When the 35-mile(57-km) Gotthard Rail Tunnel in the Swiss Alps opens, it will reduce hours of travel time between the north and south ends of Europeand it will become the world's Jongest tunnel,
60. San Francisco's Lombard Street is considered the most crooked street in the world. There's a one-biock section with eight turns.
61. The Trans Siberian Railroad is the longest train route in the world. It extends 5.771 miles (9,288 km) and passes through seven time zones!
62. A hovertraft is not a boat hut rather an air-cusioned velricle that floats above the water.
63. The difference between rafts and boats is that you usually sit in a boat and on a raft.
64. More than 500 cars were destroyed during the making of Transformers: Dork of the Moon.
65. Ancient Greeks and Romans made warships that were rowed by as many as 1800 people!
66. The world's largest riverboat is the Mississioof Queen, It can hold a2z passengers.
67. The world record for fastest boata jet- powered hydroplane is 318 miles per hour (511 kph).
68. A dinglty Is a small boat attached to or towed behind a larger ship as a lifeboat.
69. Dragon boats, traditionally from China, are human-powered with an ornamental dragon head at the bow. The longest recorded trip made by a dragon boat was about 294 nautical miles (545 km) down the Missouri River in the U.S.A.
70. The flag that flew on explorer Ernest Shackleton's ship Endurunce, which Was trapped in tce for 11 months en route to Antarctica in 1915. sold for SiBo,60o. It was the most expensive flag ever sold.
71. The world's largest passenger ship is 1,187 feet (362 m) lorng. That's more than 300 feet (91 m) longer than the Titanic.
72. Scientists are working on powering cars using coffee grounds and used diapers!
73. A man ance spun 24 circles in one minute on a motorcycle.
74. Drivers in Washington, D.C., and Chicago. inals U.S.A. spend more than 70 hours a year stuck fn traffic
75. The airbag was patented in 1953. but it didn't show up in cars for several decades because It was hard to make one that inflated fast enough. Today's airbags take 1/25th of a second to inflate.
76. In NASCAR races, four tires are changed and the car is fueled in 15 seconds or less.
77. The first fire trucks were water pumps on wheels pulled by horses.
78. The tires on a mining dump truck are as tall as tro idult men!
79. White-colored cars get in fewer accidents than cars of other colors.
80. There are 755 cars for every 1,000 people in the IL.Sa higher ratio than any other country.
81. A fan boat has an airplane-like propeller on the back to move it through shallow water. It is commonly Lised to get around the U.S.A's Florida Everglades.
82. In Venice, Italy, gondolas are used to travel thie city's waterways: all are painted black.
83. Taxicabs get their name from the taximeter,an instrument used to measure the distarice traveled and time spent by a car.
84. There are about 13,000 iconsed taxis in New York City.
85. Sled dogs have been used as transportation for hundreds of years, In Alaska, U.S.A, the Iditarod is a 1,150-mile(L851- km) sled-dog race that runs from Anchorage to Nome.
86. In India's Kaziranga Natianal Park, guards ride elephants to make their patrols.
87. Virgin Galactic is a private company that plans to take passengers on a flight 360,000 feet (109.728 m) above Earth, where they will experience zero gravity. The Cust: Sz00.000,
88. A Häbel-Habel is a motorcycle used in the Philippines with an extra-long seat that can carry four to five people.
89. In Thailand, taxis come in the form of tuk-tuks, three wheeled cars with open sides and a cOvered top.
90. Road construction In Beijing once caused a ten-day traf- fo jut
91. A Tovota Prius is 85 percent recyclable.
92. The first use of a rearview mirror in a car was during the first Indianapolis s0a race in sgi1.
93. Because camels can go up to eight days without drinking and can carry heavy cargo, they have been a common form of transportation in African and Middle Eastern deserts for thousands of years.
94. The Couchbike is exactly what it sounds likea couch with bike wheels on the sides that can be Dadelad around town,
95. Rearview cameras and sensors have been used in construction trucks since the 1970s, but the technology just caught on with passenger cars,
96. Disnevland's Monorail was the first daily operating monorail in the Western Hemisphere when it opened in 1959.
97. London's subway system is called the Underground and also the Tube.
98. Oftentimes, "ambulance" is spelled backward on the hood of the vehldle sa that when It is approaching drivers from behind the word will be sticwn correctly in the rearview mirror,
99. At S17 milion, the Bugatti Veyrori is the most expensive street-legal car sold. Its top speed is 253 miles per hour (407 kph).
100. China is considering "traddting buses"to solve traffic fams. Thu buses take up two lanes and carry up to 1,200 people seven feet (2.1 m) above the road, allowing cars to pass underneath.
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