Weird Facts Database - 20
The British royal family changed their surname (last name) from Saxe-Coburg-Gotha to Windsor, the name of their castle, in 1917.
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In 1620, Dutch inventor Cornelius van Drebbel launched the world's first submarine in the Thames.
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Karoke means 'empty orchestra' in Japanese.
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About a quarter of the world still drives on the left, and the countries that do are mostly old British colonies.
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It is said that, in 1941 the Ford motor company produced an experimental automobile with a plastic body composed of 70% cellulose fibres from hemp. The car body could absorb blows 10 times as great as steel without denting. The car was designed to run on hemp fuel. Because of the ban on both hemp and alcohol, the car was never mass produced.
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