Early American trains had wood-burning engines that would spew embers into the passenger cars, so some railways gave each passenger a bucket of sand to pour on a neighbour if they caught fire.
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There were no guidebooks for Margaret Hamilton to work with. So, she wrote her own. 🤓 https://t.co/eJlLRgDwBl
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These super splitters are able to make short work of even the most massive logs. 😮 📽️ BellsMachining https://t.co/aUVJSX4nVo
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Last week, archeologists in Northumberland found a stone with an image of a phallus and the Latin phrase meaning ‘Secundinus the shitter’. Experts believe the phallic image was not a good luck symbol, but was supposed to add ‘to the force of the written insult’.
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Have you ever wanted to get solar panels? This video is for you if you are not sure of how well they work. 🧐 https://t.co/Wl4zY8vzOg
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It was the world's first aircraft to be propelled solely by a liquid-fueled rocket. 🚀 https://t.co/6iprDRbDAg
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Word of the Day: MONOMATH (neologism) — ‘a person with an exhaustive knowledge of a single, often utterly trivial, subject’.
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You better slam on your brakes when you see one of these barricades standing in your way. 🧐 📽️ Delta Scientific Corporation https://t.co/QIXsE0RuiM
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These little-known cars get between 37 and 47 miles to the gallon, and they don't cost a lot.🚗 https://t.co/5bXnTcR8ma
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