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Old 10-30-2015, 03:30 PM
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"When the Stockton-Darlington Railway opened in 1825, people feared the worst: the human body, surely, wasn't made to travel at incredible speeds of 30 miles per hour. People genuinely believed that going that quickly would kill you in gruesome ways, such as your body melting." - 12 Technologies That People Feared
Yup. Same thing when they started hitting 60 mph and especially 100. Even doctors warned that at those speeds your brain will scramble!
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