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TIL in 1897 when British railway pioneer Magnus Volk wanted to extend his railway line to Rottingdean, he created the "Daddy Long Legs", a unique electric tram atop four 23' tall legs that ran on tracks submerged in the ocean. At high tide it moved at "a very slow walking pace."

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