Rear Wheels facts
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Scientists are now driving The Curiosity Rover backwards, because the front wheels were getting much more damage then the rear ones.
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In 1975 a Missouri construction worker heard of a device pitched to the US Army that would steer the rear wheels of a vehicle if the front axle broke. He modified it to work permanently and installed it on his 1974 Ford F-250, called it 'Bigfoot', and thus created the monster truck.
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A Canadian farmer accidentally put his tractor into reverse, pinning his leg under the rear wheel, killing him hours later. Later, surveying the scene of the accident, neighbors noticed that the farmer had scratched his will into the tractor’s fender using his pocketknife.
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The infamous Yugo car from the 80s is lightweight enough in the rear portion for two adults to easily carry it with the rear wheels off the ground. It is also based on Fiat components built in Yugoslavia.
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The Renault Zoom a cocept car which could get shorter by folding its rear wheels up thereby making it easier to park in smaller spaces
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There are fire trucks in some fleets that have both front a front wheel driver, and rear wheel driver, in order to make it around narrow urban turns
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The "D" in DUKW/duck boats (amphibious trucks) means "designed in 1942," the "U" means "Utility," the "K" means "all-wheel drive," and the "W" means "dual rear-axles." According to the inventors, "Duplex Universal Karrier, Wheeled" -- popularized by a sci/tech encyclopedia -- is incorrect.
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During a test flight of the Heinkel He 111 & He 112, despite the wheels-up landing and having the fuselage on fire, it proved to official circles that an aircraft could be flown satisfactorily with a back-thrust system through the rear.
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The front and rear wheel brakes on bicycles are on different sides of the handlebar, depending on what country they are sold in.
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Russian cosmonauts pee on the right rear wheel of their transfer bus as a part of ritual
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Isadora Duncan, the controversial American dancer, was instantly strangled to death while travelling as a passenger in a car, on this day in 1927, after her scarf got entangled around the open-spoked wheels and rear axle, snapping her neck.
