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In articles like "crazy things people used to believe" a prevalant topic is "people in the 19th century thought trains would suffocate passengers when going past 30mph". Is that a cherry-picked crackpot theory from some obscure source, or was this an actual belief among people?

by /u/El3utherios in /r/AskHistorians

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