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Nov 2019
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Short Stuff: Niagara Falls Dewatered

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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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