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nepbo TIL a large part of the Chinese wall was made of rammed earth. The famous stone wall named the Ming Wall was finished in the 15th/16th century.
epD5 Today I learned that many of the men who acted as guards along the Great Wall of China in the Middle Ages spent their whole lives there. They were born there, raised there, they married there, died there, and were even buried within the wall.