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During severe shortages, Havana resorted to welding massive metal humps onto flatbeds, creating monstrous people-carriers that looked exactly like two-humped…
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The British term for a baby carriage comes from a wildly overly formal word that literally just means to walk around a place for pleasure, which is rarely…
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Making folks climb a small mountain just to get on a municipal ride is terrible, so the entire chassis bows down. The operator triggers specialized air…
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Hope you brought a very good book and a high tolerance for leg cramps. The Transoceanic bus route covers 3,800 miles across South America, navigating through…
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To avoid using actual vehicles, some neighborhoods organize literal human chains where highly stressed adults herd a blob of brightly colored kids down the…
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To maximize passenger space, older models put the engine right next to the driver in a tiny glass cube, ensuring they froze during winter and roasted…
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