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TIL that sobriety checkpoints are illegal in Texas under the state’s interpretation of the federal Constitution

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d8g8B TIL: Rusting gears, beams, & wheels on the coast in Marseille show where an innovative ride was. One could pay to use a special cable car that ran underwater. For safety, pro divers went with the tourists as the pods skimmed along the seabed. It opened in 1966, was shut down after around one year.
eJkg TIL Some mines are set to explode in response to changes in magnetic and acoustic fields. Sailors on minesweepers are not allowed to have wire coat-hangers because they could kill their magnetic signature and set off a mine.
69V9Q TIL, that already 5 people are cured from HIV 💪🏽
gxG9 TIL the ruins of a 2,300-year-old Mayan Temple in Belize were destroyed by contractors who wanted to use the bricks for gravel to build a road.
nWGBd TIL the leader of the Crips, Stanley “Tookie” Williams wrote a children’s book in prison about anti gang violence. He was nominated for 4 Nobel Prizes for what he did to stop gang violence and was nominated for the Nobel prize For Literature once for this book.