Bus Facts

At age 12, Simon Cowell was arrested for hijacking a bus with a toy gun.

In the UK, there's a bus service that's powered by poop.

A man on a unicycle was hit by a double-decker bus in London and dragged under the front wheel. Within seconds, around 100 bystanders surrounded the 12-tonne bus and physically lifted it off the ground to free him. The whole thing was caught on video. He spent a month in hospital but survived. The man was on a unicycle. A hundred strangers lifted a bus.

Raymond Hager is 95 years old. For almost 30 years, he has driven a school bus for Wichita Falls, Texas. His boss once tried cutting him back to one day a week. Hager refused to slow down. In 2025, Guinness World Records named him the world's oldest active male bus driver. The mayor declared Hager's birthday, November 18, Raymond Hager Day. He still says one day a week just isn't enough.