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• ... that Sir Richard Paget encouraged his daughter to fall from the open platform (pictured) of a London bus, to demonstrate his theory that a person could do so safely due to air currents?

• ... that to film her role on the Glee episode "Choke", Whoopi Goldberg traveled by bus from New York to Los Angeles?

• ... that the go bus is a system of bus rapid transit in New Jersey?

• ... that Gerhard C. Kallevig was a pioneer in establishing bus routes in Norway?

• ... that the coaches of 2012 Paralympic swimmer Richard Eliason advised him to take the bus until the end of the Paralympic Games?

• ... that the Millennium Park Bus Depot in Delhi overtook the Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv to become the largest bus station in the world?

• ... that Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's proposed Skybus rapid transit system became an issue in the 1969 mayoral campaign?

• ... that Umeå Energi set up lamps in bus shelters to avoid people getting SAD?