26Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine
Hertella Auto Kaffeemachine was the first known dashboard-mounted coffee maker. Manufactured in 1959 specifically for the Volkswagen Beetle, it came with porcelain cups that could stick to the machine magnetically.
27. The Galileo spacecraft saw a mile-high, 16-mile-long curtain of lava erupt from Jupiter's moon Io.
28. Sakoku was an isolationist foreign policy enacted by the Tokugawa Shogunate under which they forbade common Japanese citizens to leave the country for 265 years (1603 to 1868).
29. Adnan Khashoggi was a successful Saudi businessman, who among other businesses brokered arms deals between US arms companies and the Saudi Government and made commission on deals. He became so rich that he had a fleet of private jets and his lavish lifestyle cost $250,000 a day just to maintain.
30. The Outback Way is a 2,700 km "shortcut" directly through the Australian Outback. Without it, the trip from Winton to Laverton would be over 4,000 km.
