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Why did engineers redesign Japanese bullet trains to have incredibly long, strange-looking, duck-bill snouts?

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Why did engineers redesign Japanese bullet trains to have incredibly long, strange-looking, duck-bill snouts?

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Why did engineers redesign Japanese bullet trains to have incredibly long, strange-looking, duck-bill snouts?
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