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TIL the World's first Tarmac road is Radcliffe Road in UK, that was transformed into a tarmac road by pioneering inventor Edgar Hooley in 1902. Before then, roads were made of Macadam, compacted stone that puctured the wheels of the first motor vehicles.

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