Irrelevent Facts

[matriarch]

• In Tokyo, a bicycle is faster than a car for most trips of less than 50 minutes
• The most popular first name in the world is Muhammad
• Until the nineteenth century, solid blocks of tea were used as money in Siberia

 

[yui]

22% of American women aged 20 gave birth while in their teens. In Switzerland and Japan, only 2% did so.

 

[rgraham666]

The design of one of the most modern means of transportation is limited by one of the oldest.

In Roman times, roads were built to handle carts of a particular size wheel base.

Road builders continued to use this standard. When railroads were introduced, the gauge of the rails was set to these ancient road standards.

When people designed the boosters for the space shuttle, they knew they were going to be shipped by rail.

So the boosters were limited in size by the rail gauge which was set in Roman times.

 

[yui]

The design of one of the most modern means of transportation is limited by one of the oldest.

In Roman times, roads were built to handle carts of a particular size wheel base.

Road builders continued to use this standard. When railroads were introduced, the gauge of the rails was set to these ancient road standards.

When people designed the boosters for the space shuttle, they knew they were going to be shipped by rail.

So the boosters were limited in size by the rail gauge which was set in Roman times.

How neat, rg.