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A French Postman Spent 33 Years Building the "Ideal Palace" With Stones He Collected During His Daily Round
Stonehenge is 1500 years older than Rome's coliseum
The Empire State Building Generates More Revenue from its Observation Decks than from its 85 Floors of Office Space,
There are 1792 steps to the top of the Eiffel tower
Incidentally the Eiffel Tower receives a fresh coat of 300 tons of reddish green paint every 7 years!!!
The Pantheon, Rome has the largest unsupported dome in the world and features a mysterious hole at the top called an ‘oculus’.
The Hoover Dam was built to last 2,000 years, the concrete used to form the immense curved structure will not be cured for another 500 years.
The Guggenheim Museum. Wright did over 700 sketches before he found the right one.
Sagrada familia in Barcelona Did you know? It’s been under construction for 137 years! And it’s still not finished.
More Time Passed Between the Start and End of Construction on the Great Wall of China than Between the Start of Christianity and Today