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TIL Nan Madol, “Ghost City of the Pacific”, megalithic basalt stone structures weighing 800,000 tons, standing 25 feet high and 17 feet thick covering 200 acres built on the coral reef 1,000 years ago in Pohnpei, Micronesia.

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