When monorails ran on wooden tracks

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Before everyone obsessed over sleek metal rails, some nineteenth-century dreamers thought balancing massive transit boxes on wooden beams was a brilliant idea. Shockingly, timber tends to rot.

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Why is every automatic car's gear shift explicitly arranged in the exact same P-R-N-D-L order?

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Karl Benz's wife, Bertha, took the world's first long-distance road trip in 1888 without telling her husband, effectively inventing the concept of joyriding.

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Before the widespread invention of the internal combustion engine oil refineries considered gasoline to be a completely useless and highly dangerous byproduct of producing kerosene for lamps.

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