Episode
139: No Such Thing As A Lobster Nappy
This was for a world's exposition which France was holding in 1900, and they needed a sequel to the Eiffel Tower, because the Eiffel Tower was a huge hit and they said we need another thing that's really big to be the…
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Because it was at the World's Fair, there were lots of bright lights nearby and it was functionally useless as a telescope because it was in the middle of Paris.
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- MarsFictional / space
It was built because they knew that there were indentations on Mars and they wanted to establish whether or not they were made by Martians. Were they Martian canals or were they just naturally formed? We're still not…
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His actual claims to fame are the mistakes that he made. The huge thing that put him on the map was when he failed to leap over the fountains at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas — he clipped right at the end of the ramp and…
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