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TIL Car Turn Signals Changed Colour in the 1960s Only After Fever-Pitch Battles Over Whether White or Amber Ones Work Better, and Car Owners Were Subject To Arrest in Some US States For Installing Amber Bulbs Instead of Clear Ones.

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