Six Stories- the memory palace
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The Secret of the World's Fair Elevator
Elevator car holding eight volunteers dropped on command. The air pressure in the shaft that was supposed to cushion its descent blew out the walls of the elevator shaft, leaving nothing to stop the free-falling car but Massachusetts soil. Many bones were broken, lives passed before eyes, all eight of them nearly died. They may have been more excited if they knew this same technique had been tested in secret in Boston not long before.
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