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TIL Torre Mayor, Mexico City, is one of the strongest buildings on Earth, being designed to withstand earthquakes measuring 8.5 on the Richter Scale. Occupants inside at the time of the 2003 earthquake did not know that a 7.6 tremor had occurred

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