AMAZING TRIVIA ABOUT TRAINS
Added on: 22nd Oct 2016
IN 1993 KERON THOMAS COMMANDEERED A
SUBWAY TRAIN IN NEW YORK FOR 3 HOURS
BEFORE GETTING CAUGHT. HE WAS 16 YEARS OLD
AFTER THE GOVERNMENT PROVIDED SERVICE
STOPPED RUNNING OR BECAME UNRELIABLE,
PEOPLE IN SOME PARTS OF CAMBODIA BEGAN
CREATING MAKESHIFT TRAINS OUT OF
BAMBOO (CALLED NORRIES)
THERE IS AN ABANDONED SUBWAY STATION
UNDER THE CITY HALL IN NEW YORK THAT YOU
CAN SEE AS YOU PASS BY ON THE 6 TRAIN
JAPANESE TRAINS ARE KNOWN FOR THEIR SHARP
TIME SCHEDULE. IF A TRAIN IS EVEN 5 MINUTES
LATE THE PASSENGERS GET AN APOLOGY AND
A CERTIFICATE THAT THEY CAN SHOW AT WORK
TO PROVE THEY WERE DELAYED BECAUSE
OTHERWISE NOBODY WOULD BELIEVE THEM
ON THE RARE OCCASION THAT JAPANESE TRAINS
ARE 1 HOUR LATE OR MORE, IT CAN EVEN MAKE
THE NEWS (THE AVERAGE DELAY OF A TRAIN
IN JAPAN IN 2012 WAS 6 MINUTES)
THE JAPANESE ENGINEER WHO DESIGNED THE
KAMIKAZE PLANES OF WWII FELT SO GUILTY
FOR HIS INVENTION THAT AFTER THE WAR HE
DECIDED TO ONLY USE HIS SKILLS FOR PEACE.
HE DEVOTED HIS TIME TO DEVELOPING THE
NOW FAMOUS BULLET TRAIN
AFTER WWI, FRANCE TOOK THE RAILWAY CARS
WHERE GERMANY SIGNED THE OFFICIAL
SURRENDER DOCUMENT AND PUT THEM IN A
MUSEUM. WHEN GERMANY OVERRAN FRANCE
IN WWII, HITLER ORDERED THE RAILROAD CARS
TO BE BUT BACK IN THE EXACT SAME SPOT
WHERE THEY USED TO BE IN ORDER TO
HUMILIATE THE FRENCH
WHEN TRAINS WERE FIRST INTRODUCED IN THE
UNITED STATES MANY PEOPLE BELIEVED THAT
WOMEN'S BODIES COULDN'T HANDLE THE SPEED
AND THAT THEIR UTERUSES WOULD FLY OUT
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