Top 15 Interesting Car Facts

Here are the top 15 interesting facts on car and the car industry:

The First Japanese car in the United States was the Honda Accord manufactured in November 1982.

Chevrolet Imphala was one such car that had enjoyed a breaking sales record of more than one million in 1965.


The first cars used lever instead of steering wheel. Today, a lever-steered car would look strange and weird.

The first Porsche 911 was introduced in 1964 and generated a power output of 130 bhp.

An airbag takes only 40 milliseconds to inflate after an accident.


Ferrari makes a maximum of 14 cars every day.


The world's longest traffic hold-up was between Paris and Lyon on the French Autoroute in 1980. it was about 110 miles long.

The first auto insurance policy was purchased in in 1897 in Westfield, MA.

Tata breaks the world records by producing the world's cheapest car, Tata Nano.

Windshield wipers were introduced by a woman.

The first self-propelled car was invented by Nicolas Cugnot in 1769. It was designed with three wheels and an engine in the front along with the boiler. The car was able to run at a speed of 6 km/h. The first self-propelled car was first used by French Army to move cannons.

Nicolas Cugnot designed another steam-driven vehicle two years later after he introduced the first steam-driven car. The machine ran well but one day it met an accident with a wall and this incident is recorded to be the first motor-accident.

In the late 18th century, Issac de Rivaz designed several successful steam-powered cars. Then in 1807 he designed the internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen to generate power. He then developed a car using this engine.

The first practical four-stroke engine was invented by the Otto and Langen Company of Deutz, Germany. Nikolaus Otto was working in a grocery store and one day he read about Lenoir's two-stroke gas-driven internal combustion engine. Otto the started his own workshop supported by Langen in Deutz near Cologne in 1863. There he invented the four-stroke engine in 1876. Later, a German engineer named Gottlieb Daimler carried out much developments in the engine and introduced a practical four-stroke engine in that is still used in various car models.

In 1887, Benz was the first car company to be offered for sale.

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Strange Ant Facts

The Slave-Maker Ant burglarizes the home of other ants and steal their children. When the pupae of the captured hatch, they are forced to work as slaves.

Worker ants live a little more than a month, but the queen can live over twenty years.

The weight of all ants on Earth is roughly equal to the weight of all humans on Earth. That's kind of weird. One would expect the opposite.

Ants invented farming long before humans did.

Ants have the largest brain relative to its body size.

About a quarter billion people in China subsist on less than one dollar per day.

There are over a hundred million people who use the internet in China.

Marlboro's founder died from lung cancer. How ironic.

Bank of America's original name was Bank of Italy.

There are topless women in Liverpool, England selling tropical fish. It's probably more fun watching the topless women than buying the actual fish.

Fun Weird Law Facts

In Quitman, Georgia, United States, it against the law for a chicken to cross the road.

In France, you can legally marry a dead person! Talk about necrophilia!

In Natoma, Kansas, it's against the law to throw knives at striped-shirt wearing men!

If you masturbate in Indonesia, you will get decapitated if caught.

Moscow weathermen can be fined for inaccurately weather forecasting!

In Georgia, US, donkeys may not be kept in bathtubs.

It is illegal to wear a fake moustache that causes laughter in church.

You may not drive without wearing shoes.

Late Night Fun Weird Facts

United States has a population of about fifty-eight million dogs.

It takes over eleven billion dollars to feed dogs and cats every year.

Toenails grow four times slower than fingernails.

Pope John Paul II earned the title of "Honorary Harlem Globetrotter" at the turn of the century.

One hundred pounds of chocolate is eaten every second by Americans.

People who are afraid of vegetables are called Lachnophobes.

Fifty Bibles are sold every sixty seconds.

Over fifty million dollars are spent on chewing gum every year in America.

Tuesday Strange Facts

Here are some strange facts:

Saw dust can cause nasal and lung cancer.

Nutmeg can kill you if it's injected into your bloodstream.

Sixteen thousand people get AIDS everyday.

Only one out of a billion people will live beyond a hundred years.

Over ninety nine percent of the eel population are gone due to mass commercial fishing.

It takes about a 100 tons of dead plants to make one gallon of gasoline.

You are more likely to die of choking on a hot dog than from a car accident.

Strange but True

Here are today's fun weird facts:

The tongue of a chameleon is two times longer than its own body length.

Tooth picks are used by Americans the most.

Eyes muscles of an average human twitch over ten thousand times every 24 hours.

A pachyderm will remain standing even after death.

There are some animals that can live over a year after being decapitated.

It took Leonardo Da Vinci over 12 years to paint the lips of Mona Lisa.

Glass shards can travel over three thousand miles/hr.

Cows are more productive when there's stimulating audio noise.

Sunday Weird Facts

Eating an apple is more stimulating than drinking coffee.

Most dust in your home consists of dead skin.

Barbie doll's full name is Barabra Millicent Roberts.

Adolf Hitler was saved from abortion by his mom's doctor.

Pearls melt in acid such as lemon juice.

Over thirty-five percent of people who post online marriage profiles are already married.

A cow can go up the stairs but not down.

Snails can hibernate for over three years.

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Fun True Facts

The only continent that doesn't have reptiles is Anartica.

An eagle is powerful enough to kill a baby deer and carry it away.

Some oysters in the Caribbean region can go up trees.

Smart people tend to have more zinc and copper on their hair.

The youngest mom and dad in recorded history lived in China in the early twentienth century were of the ages 8 and 9.

R2D2 was a name inspired by the identification labels on the American Graffitit sound track.

Mark Twain never graduated from primary school.

Armadillos can be trained to use the toilet.

Fun Weird Historical Facts

• Napoleon used a sandbox to plan his battles
• The ancient Romans took oaths with their testes
• The shortest recorded war in history was that fought between England and Zanzibar. It lasted thirty-eight minutes.
• When Egypt conquered Libya in 1300 BCE, they used the penises of their slain enemies as trophies
• Leonardo Da Vinci invented the idea of using solar energy on a large scale
• Titanic sank within 30 seconds of the first sighting of the iceberg
• Egyptians invented the first condom using crocodile dung

Fun Weird Technology Facts

• All windmills rotate counter-clockwise, with the exception windmills in Ireland.
• The first cameras have an exposure time of over eight hours!
• A Gameboy has more computing power than all of NASA's computers used for the 1969 moon .operation
• The cigarette lighter came before the invention of the match.
• The special oils used to lubricate fancy watches and clocks costs over $3000 a gallon!
• Your fingers can generate static electricity over 10,000 to 30,000 volts!
• The first hard drive for Apple II computers had only 5 MB of disk space
• The first alarm clock didn't allow you to set the time for the alarm
• The AAA was formed after many people complained of police speed traps.
• Nintendo started out making playing cards.

Fun Weird Computer Facts

• The house of Bill Gates was designed on a Mac.
• The longest word you can type on the upper row of the keyboard is 'typewriter'.
• 1.3 Billion people are using the internet at any given moment
• When the internet became public, it took a mere 4 years for it to reach 50 million users, much faster compared to radio and television back when those were invented.
• Over eighty percent of the internet contains porn
• The first mouse was invented by Doug Engelbart and it was made from wood
• Online banner advertising was first implemented in 1994
• One of eight people met their future spouses online
• The first website was Symbolics.com.

Interesting Animal Facts

• The milk from the hippopotamus is pink like bubble gum
• Women can smell better than men
• There are more sheep in Australia than there are people
• Oral copulation was illegal in some parts of the US until it was legalized in 2003
• Sharks make love with their chests
• Pigs can't stare upward
• Crows can live over a hundred years
• Rattlesnakes can copulate for more than 22 hours
• Honey bees don't need to rest