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TIL the Bell Rock, a reef in the North Sea, had been responsible for thousands of shipwrecks over the centuries, that is until 1807 when an engineer began the “impossible” construction of a lighthouse on the reef itself. Ever since its completion, the Bell Rock hadn’t claimed a single human life.

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