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TIL An English Man was fined for pretending to be a ghost in Portsmouth cemetery in 2014

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grMKb TIL On July 14, 1935 Penelope Powell and Graham Balcombe made what is considered to be the first cave dive. It was conducted at Wookey Hole in England. This historic site is still open to the small membership of divers belonging to the Cave Divers Group
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