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• [Transport fact 1]  In Dubai, license plates are bought and sold for upwards of $14 million in order to show status, with 1 being the most desired, then 2, then so on.

  Countries, Transport source

• [Transport fact 2]  In 1963, an East German soldier named Wolfgang Engels stole a tank and drove it through the Berlin Wall at top speed to try and escape.

  People, Transport source

• [Transport fact 3]  Sweden has almost zero child fatalities in car crashes because most parents keep their children rear-facing until the age of 4.

  Countries, Transport source

• [Transport fact 4]  In 2015, an Air India technician named Ravi Subramanian was sucked into an aircraft's jet engines.

  Death, Transport source

• [Transport fact 5]  The record for most passengers ever carried by a commercial airliner is 1,088, by an El Al Boeing 747 during Operation Solomon, which involved the evacuation of Ethiopian Jews from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, and started on 24 May 1991. This figure included two babies born on the flight.

  Military, Transport source

• [Transport fact 6]  The first airship (USS Shenandoah) to be lifted by helium used most of the helium available in the world at the time to fill its 59,000 cubic meter volume.

  History, Transport source

• [Transport fact 7]  Norway has very strict rules on advertising cars as "green" saying, "cars can do nothing good for the environment except less damage than others".

  Countries, Transport source

• [Transport fact 8]  FedEx uses several empty cargo planes that roam the country's skies overnight in circuitous flight paths, ready to divert on demand in order to accommodate unexpected package volume.

  Corporation, Transport source

• [Transport fact 9]  There is a difference between a Fire Engine and a Fire Truck. A Fire Engine's main purpose is to pump water. A Fire Truck usually carries ladders and tools to help the firefighters.

  Language, Transport source

• [Transport fact 10]  A scientist at the University of Florida, USA, grew a "living 'brain" a network of 25,000 rat brain cells" that when "connected to an array of 60 electrodes that can interact with a computer" learned to fly a simulated F-22 stealth fighter jet in a range of weather conditions.

  Animals, Transport source

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