H2B - Hard to Believe - In ancient China, the nose of a criminal who attacked travelers was cut off.
The Wright Brother tested the first Airplane in a wind tunnel before flying it. Air-filled tyres were used on bicycles before they were used on motorcars. A dog was the first in space and a sheep, a duck and a rooster the first to fly in a hot air balloon. A dog was the first to parachute. Traffic lights were used before the advent of the motorcar. Traffic jams are nothing new. In 45 BC, Rome banned all vehicles from within the city - and in other cities vehicles, including horses, were allowed only at night because of traffic jams. In ancient China, the nose of a criminal who attacked travelers was cut off. In 1913, the Russian Airline became the first to introduce a toilet on board. The fewest aeroplane passengers killed in one year was 1 in 1993 and the most was 583 in 1977 when two Boeing 747s collided on the runway at Los Rodeos airport, Tenerife, the Canary Islands. The first train reached a top speed of only 8 km/h (5 mph).