The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one mile in every five must be straight in case of war or emergency, they could be used as airstrips.

A deployed air bag adds as much as $2,000 to the cost of repairing a vehicle. That's enough for insurance companies to often declare the car "totaled".

The drive-through line on opening day at the McDonald's restaurant in Kuwait City, Kuwait was at times seven miles long.

AMAZING FACTS