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...that, according to the Michigan Department of Transportation, the first highway centerline in the US (pictured) was painted on the first designation of M-15 in 1917?
...the creation of California State Route 49 was lobbied for by historians seeking to preserve the history of the 1849 California Gold Rush?
...that at the opening ceremony for Ontario Highway 105, a construction company presented Minister of Highways George Doucett with a bear cub as thanks for his efforts towards the creation of the route?
...that KY 79 is sometimes seen as an extension of US 79, where both terminate in Russellville but not at the same intersection?
...that a "token war" between the Connecticut Turnpike and the New York City Subway developed in the 1980s when subway riders discovered that the turnpike's cheaper tokens fit in fare boxes?

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