Short Stuff: Niagara Falls Dewatered

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🗓️ 27 November 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In 1969, the Army Corps of Engineers turned off one of the main waterfalls at Niagara Falls to see what could be done to preserve it. They found two corpses, one carcass and lots of pennies.

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0:47.2	You ever been to Niagara Falls?
0:48.8	I have.
0:50.3	What's it like?
0:51.8	A watery damp.
0:55.8	It's very pretty.
0:56.8	It's actually really neat.
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