Somewhere beneath the feet of commuters crossing Philadelphia’s busy intersections, a secret is buried in the asphalt.

You might walk over it every single day without knowing. But if you stop, look down, and catch it at just the right angle, you’ll find a linoleum tile, roughly the size of a doormat pressed into the road’s surface and bearing one of the strangest phrases ever embedded in urban infrastructure: TOYNBEE IDEA IN MOVIE 2001 RESURRECT DEAD ON PLANET JUPITER. Welcome to the mystery of the Toynbee Tiles.

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