Turkmenistan banned black cars

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Dictatorships are known for quirky laws, but outlawing a color takes the absolute cake. The authoritarian regime of Turkmenistan banned all black cars from the capital simply because white is considered a lucky color. Citizens were forced to abruptly repaint their vehicles or risk having them impounded by police.

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Model T Fords were designed without a fuel pump, meaning drivers often had to drive up steep hills completely in reverse just to keep the engine running.

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Electric vehicles constituted roughly one third of all cars on American roads in the year 1900, vastly outnumbering their loud, smelly, and aggressively dangerous gasoline-powered counterparts.

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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