Transport Trivia

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• Did you know? A boeing 747 holds about 216, 846 liters of fuel.
• The tuk tuk, a popular vehicle in Asia, takes its name from the sound of its engine
• “You can have it any colour you want, so long as it’s black!” said Henry Ford about the Model T Ford that he launched in 1908.
• The busiest port in the world that handles up to 43.5 million TEUs of cargo volume is in Shanghai.
• On 10 December 1868, the first traffic light in the world was installed at Parliament Square in London.

tuk tuk in Sri Lanka

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