A Citreon 2CV with an oil leak once travelled 500 miles through Italy after its gearbox was filled with bananas!
16
Castor oil is used as a lubricant in jet planes.
-5
A fully loaded supertanker traveling at normal speed takes a least twenty minutes to stop.
27
Windmills always turn anti-clockwise. Except for the windmills in Ireland!
184
To have your picture taken by the very first camera you would have had to sit still for 8 hours!
308
A small airplane can fly backwards.
75
The first alarm clock could only ring at 4 a.m.
120
There are only 14 blimps in the world.
69