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The first roundabout was originally a dance floor. Which is why nobody knows what to do inside it.

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Roundabouts were not dance floors. Circular traffic designs date to the early 1900s, such as New York's Columbus Circle, and the modern British yield-at-entry roundabout was standardized in the 1960s.

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