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David said:

Traffic lights were used before the invention of the motorcar, in 1868 in fact. They were invented by British railroad signal engineer J P Knight and consisted of a lantern with red and green signals. The first was installed at the intersection of George and Bridge Streets in front of the the British House of Commons to control the flow of horse-drawn carts and pedestrians. Motorcars were introduced to the USA in the late 1890s and the need for such a traffic control quickly became obvious. In 1910, Earnest Sirrine of Chicago, Illinois filed for a patent for what is considered the first automatic street traffic system, using non-illuminated words "STOP" and "PROCEED".

June 26, 2007

lee said:

Men fart an average of 17 times a day, and women fart an average of 9 times a day. I always thought it was much more

June 28, 2007

lee again said:

Typewriter is the longest word that can be made using only the letters on the top row of the keyboard. There is a city called Rome on every continent.

June 28, 2007

Tarzan said:

During the battle for Stalingrad, the German army lost more men attacking a single house defended by sergeant Pavlov's platoon than it did occupying Paris three years later. Pavlov survived the war and became a monk.

June 28, 2007

Paul Abrook said:

A woman walks on average 956 miles a year doing housework.

September 07, 2007

Ashling said:

The tallest pyramid is not in eygpt.....its in mexico

November 15, 2007

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