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TIL A Poker Player's Tells Are In The Hands As Much As The Face

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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.
Dver TIL that zebras are responsible for more injuries to zookeepers than any other captive animal
m15Py TIL that famous children’s author Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalks Ends, The Giving Tree) wrote Johnny Cash’s famous song A Boy Named Sue.
5YRAr TIL the "golden spike" the last spike hammered into the transcontinental railroad, was immediately removed and given to railroad baron Leland Stanford who put on display in Palo Alto, California.
9A8m TIL a South African IT company proved that it was faster to send information via carrier pigeon than the country’s leading internet service provider.