A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
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The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
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Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
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Thomas Alva Edison patented almost 1,300 inventions in his lifetime!
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About 39,000 gallons of water are used to produce the average car!
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The Queen Mary - the grandest vessel of her day - had many of her vital components made by car manufacturer Skoda!
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In the early 1960's, Porsche commercially manufactured farm tractors.
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