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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.

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OGnn7 TIL of Behringer's Lying Stones; where pieces of limestone were carved into the shapes of fictitious animals including one that bore the name of God in Hebrew. Behringer, a famous professor, had published a book on the fossils. The discovery of the prank ruined the reputations of everyone involved.
yvbX TIL that the mayor of Tinley Park, Illinois refused to let 16 & pregnant film crew on city property.
e0BLL TIL that on Apollo 15, a hammer and a feather were dropped on the surface of the moon to illustrate how objects of different weight fall at an equal rate without air resistance.
rZVd TIL that the word homophobia was originally used to refer to heterosexual men’s fear that others might think they are gay
y0AV TIL that before her death at 35, Harriet Cole, a maid at Drexel’s College of Medicine, willed her body to Dr. Rufus Weaver, and requested it be used to benefit science. Weaver proceeded with the complete dissection and mounting of her nervous system.