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TIL there is a state highway in the U.S. that bans motor vehicles. M-185, a highway that encircles Mackinac Island, Michigan, allows only horse, pedestrian, and bicycle traffic. It experienced its only automobile accident when a fire truck hit an ambulance responding to an emergency.

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