Great historical account of the Washington State "windshield pitting" epidemic of 1954 — a mysterious rash of pitted windshields that were blamed on hooligans, nuclear waste, cosmic rays, and coal dust — but turned out to just be a collective delusion, where reports of a windshield pitting epidemic caused people to notice the pits in their windshields that had always been there.
(Thanks, Alan!)
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