Queen Elizabeth was a mechanic during WWII.
During WWII, Elizabeth was an 18-year-old princess. She joined the Women’s Auxiliary Territorial Service and trained in London as a mechanic. She was also a military truck driver. Elizabeth is the only female member of the royal family who served in military forces and is the only living head of state who served in World War II.
"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.