@Ken U Belevitt yeah, i was raised catholic, left as a teenager over abortion (and lgbt+ rights but mostly abortion), and now am a unitarian universalist
didn't finish this thought. where i was going with it is that even after leaving the church, i occasionally attended mass for a while as a social thing. i'd go at christmas, and went a couple times with my aunt and uncle the summer i lived with them, because it was good family time. also, i got to uu in part via universalism, the belief i alluded to earlier that everyone goes to heaven.
you find yourself letting go of any existing hang ups when you get older. I think it was a younger me that never would have believed I'd go back to college at 36
Yesterday, while watching a streamer, I learned something cool about the Eiffel Tower. The 72 names engraved on the Eiffel Tower belong to French scientists, engineers, and mathematicians who supported the building process. These golden letters are located on the first level (the lowest platform) of the tower, just beneath the balcony that runs around the structure.
Other things I learned about it: The stairs only go up to the 2nd floor. After that you have to take an elevator. The original spiral staircase was sold for scrap.