stackyFACTSThey won't win any races against horses, but an ox will happily drag a massive wooden cart through knee-deep mud without breaking a sweat. They are the ultimate biological tractors, fueled entirely by grass and bovine indifference.
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Horses are massive prey animals completely convinced the world is trying to eat them. Strapping leather cups to their eyes forced them to look straight ahead,…
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Instead of sitting on a driver's box, a postilion would sit bareback on the left-rear horse of a carriage team. It offered better control over the animals but…
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Travelers Insurance Company issued the world first automobile insurance policy in eighteen ninety-seven to a man named Truman Martin purely because he was…
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