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TIL American cars in the 1980s were legally prohibited from showing speeds above 85mph on the spedometer

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wobAE TIL even if you're just looking at a visual image in your mind's eye with your eyes closed, your pupils will still constrict/dilate as they would when viewing images with your eyes open.
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