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A small pothole repair apparently requires a battalion of fifty glowing orange cones to establish a perimeter. They slowly migrate across the lane, claiming…
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The two-wheeled wonder could have been popular decades earlier, but nobody wanted to pedal through two feet of horse manure and cobblestones. Early cyclists…
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To prevent structural collapsing, transit crews sometimes blast the surrounding soil with liquid nitrogen. They literally carve through solid frozen mud just…
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Those jagged little rocks covering the train lines aren't decorative. It's called track ballast, and its entire job is locking wooden ties in place and…
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In the UK, nobody actually uses the term 'dump bed' for that massive hydraulic dirt-thrower on the back of a truck. Calling it a skip makes the violent act of…
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Urban planners often design new streets with subtle, annoying curves. What hidden psychological purpose does this serve?
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