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It is widely known that Australia was founded as a penal colony, but Americans don't like being reminded that the Americas was too.

the first morgan horse is baried in tunbrige VT

Automobile Internal Combustion Engines have been made in 1,2.3.4.5.6. and 8 cylinder configurations. No one has ever seen fit to make a 7 cylinder.



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Cultural associations of some numbers > 7

The sum of the spiritual 3 and the material 4 is 7. In medieval education, students pursued the trivium (grammar, rhetoric, and logic) and the quadrivium (music, arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy), a total of seven subjects, collectively known as the liberal arts. Pythagorean interest in the mathematical patterns in music gives 7 a privileged role.

Too priviledged to be used in a mass produced automobile.

2+2 is not 5

I am a CPA - what do you want it to be?

Stanley Kubrick thought "Eraserhead" was a kewl movie. The guy who played the demented sergeant in "Full Metal Jacket" was a genuine Marine Training Sergeant. He is the only 'actor' that Kubrick ever allowed to ad-lib. But the guy (R. Lee Ermy) said he'd ad-lib a line and then have to repeat it exactly word for word because Stan would want a hundred takes of that scene.

Stan was noted as a genius, but a real pistol to work for.

Male bats have the highest rate of homosexuality of any group of mammals that exist- especially fruit bats

That's why they're called fruit bats.

somthing like that

The expression "It's a doozy" means something is larger than usual, or outrageous. The expression originated back in the 1930's when young boys would watch for certain types of expensive cars to motor by. By the unique exhaust note they would jump up before they even saw one and exclaim, "I'ts a Duesy." The Duesenberg was a custom made, very expensive automobile. They featured aluminum bodywork, which was quite expensive back then. They also had high powered engines that were far ahead of their time, including dual overhead camshafts, four valves per cylinder, two spark plugs per cylinder, high compression pistons and sometimes a supercharger.

The German and Scandinavian word for petrol/gasoline is Benzin (Germany and Denmark) or bensin (Norway and Sweden) after the "father of the automobile" Carl Benz.

The Swedish Automobile Company Saab started out making airplanes. Their cars back in the fifties were the most aerodynamic in the world. Naturally. The company had their own wind tunnel, and being good Swedish engineers, they put the car bodies in the wind tunnel and would shape it so to get better mileage.


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There is no sound in space because their is no atmosphere to carry sound waves.

Jupiter has at least 61 moons.