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TIL subway cars after being decommissioned are dropped into the ocean to become a home for sea life.

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ADXon TIL that songwriter Esther Dean composed “S&M” for Rihanna, then was later cast as Cynthia Rose in the Pitch Perfect movies. This means in the “riff-off” scene in the first movie, Esther got to sing her own song, but as a completely different person. Full circle.
9YVgB TIL that arbalests (a heavy crossbow variant) were so deadly relative to their ease of use that, in the 12th century, their use against Christians was declared a war crime by the Pope.
E1v7X TIL that Stonehenge was restored in the 1950s and 60s, including re-erecting stones, setting some in concrete and lifting and straightening others
nvV9 TIL IBM made the world’s smallest movie by moving around individual atoms, magnified 100 million times
vPVGR TIL about Porphyrios, a giant whale who used to harass and destroy Byzantine ships near Constantinople during VI century. Active for more than 50 years, nobody managed to catch him, not even emperor Justinian I.