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Travel Oddities Just for Fun
Here are some short little travel details that just seem odd to me. These are collected from friends, clients, agents and sometimes from articles on the World Wide Web.
The Pantheon is the largest building from ancient Rome that survives intact.
Where else but among travellers are bookings made on
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Do you feel safer in a train?
It seems the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has a unique device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. The device is a gun that launches a dead chicken at a plane’s windshield at approximately the speed the plane flies.
The theory is that if the windshield doesn’t
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Monaco Exists because a Grimaldi Rules
If Monaco’s ruling house of Grimaldi should ever be without an heir (male or female), the country will cease to be a sovereign state. It’s a quirky world. England has had several houses take the throne at different times, but not little Monaco.
The fortress
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