Kids perform better at boring tasks when dressed as Batman.
According to a study, children are more likely to work harder while dressed in a Batman costume.
The Dark Knight isn’t the only character costume that inspires kids to be heroes when performing everyday tasks, however.
Scientists found that kids dressed as Bob the Builder, Rapunzel, and Dora the Explorer also appeared to work harder.
"Car on the right has the right-of-way" is true in the US as well - look it up - but the importation of a culture with no rules has badly eroded the observance of this standard.
#12 1000 a day or a year?
Some backward third world country still living in 1932 ?
A gallon is a part of a binary volume measurement system. It is very efficient (ask your computer, which spends way too much time converting to base-10). Volume is also correlated with the weight of water on Earth, "A pint (1/8 gallon [volume]) is a pound (16 ounces [force]) all the world round".
The French had a chance to make the Metric system similarly grounded in the world we live in, but they hated the English I guess so they decided to go with a less useful, arbitrary standard instead.