I rent cars quite frequently. I’m always pulling into the gas station not knowing which side of the car the gas cap is located. I just learned that on the fuel guage, there is a picture of a gas pump with an arrow pointing to one side of the car. That’s the side of the car that the gas cap is on… Who knew?
What newly found knowledge can you share?
What car is that?
Actually, the snopes article just debunks the placement of the** handle** as an indicator. A triangle or arrow as the OP states is a valid indicator.
Not all cars have those. In fact, most don’t.
I just learned that people will often post a Snopes link without reading it.
Since learning this little factoid, every car I have rented (Chevy, Mazda, Ford, and Chrysler products) has had the arrow indicator.
I guess YMMV.
I’ll take back the “most” since I have no idea what the actual proportion is.
I think most newer cars have it. I don’t know for sure, though, since the newest car I’ve ever owned is the one I’m driving now, and it’s a 90 Pontiac.
Lotus, well-known for their racing cars and high-performance sports cars, also made the Lotus 108 bicycle and Lotus 119 soapbox derby racer (200MPH without an engine!).
Everyone in Britain knows about the 108 - Chris Boardman (the cyclist who rode it) became a superstar overnight after the Barcelona Olympics.
Of course, he was forgotten almost overnight, too.
My car doesn’t, but it has a lever to open the gas cap, so I know the gas cap is on the left (shorter and straighter cable).
That Mallard ducks are one of the fastest flying birds.
The swift is the fastest bird at level flight (everyone knows the fastest bird in a dive is the peregrine falcon).
Hummingbirds don’t die every year due to their rapid metabolism. They actually can have 10+ year lifespans. They also hibernate. And land. And eat insects. And migrate. And can open their beaks.
Actually, after recently reading about them, I found that everything that I thought I knew about hummingbirds was completely and totally wrong.
I blame my mother.
I read both the OP and the Snopes link. I’ve never seen a car with an indicator as to which side the gas tank is located. I was putting the link out there to make sure. 
There seems to be some dispute about this. The book I read listing the top 10 fastest birds stated that it was recently determined that swifts aren’t. Wikipedia states the fastest flapping bird is a swift, but a different one than on another. And meanwhile, there are plenty of official looking references that say things like:
Here is one list (the numbers are speed in km/hr and then miles/hr)
Spine-tailed swift * 171 106
Frigate bird 153 95
Spur-winged goose 142 88
Red-breasted merganser 129 80
White-rumped swift 124 77
Canvasback duck 116 72
Eider duck 113 70
Teal 109 68
9(t). Mallard 105 65
9(t). Pintail 105 65
But all have a lot of ducks and geese. Who knew?
Barbara Cartland, Queen of Romances, was Princess Diana’s step grandmother, as her daughter married the Earl of Spencer. :eek:
Girl scout cookies are made from palm oil and helping to contribute to the endangerment of orangutans. I also learned just now it’s spelled orangutans and not orangutangs.
I learned today that local agencies can do work on/adjacent to the California highway system without a Cooperative Agreement if:
the local agency has full oversight of all phases of the work
the funding is either local or Federal, no State money
the project is less than $1M total or the project is between $1-3M and a Permit Engineering Evaluation Report has been filed.
Hey, you wanted trivial.
A long time ago had heard that the gas pump icon is on the side of the gauge where the gas cap is. Now, I know I’ve checked this on probably a dozen cars and it has always proven to be true. It’s true on a sample of one, my 1984 Toyota 4Runner. My 1972 Karman Ghia doesn’t have a gas pump icon. There is probably some confirmation bias going on because it really only occurs when I buy gasoline in a car that I don’t own. Most of my friends favor Japanese cars and Volkswagens. I thought it was true in a couple of American cars that I’ve rented. Anyone care to report back to me on this phenomena?
My trivia is that Neil Diamond’s Cracklin’ Rosie is about a cheap sparkling wine, not some girl.