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TIL about Poverty Point, a Native American site dated to 1,700 B.C. which was built by moving 53,000,000 cubic feet of soil by hand, creating massive mounds which the "city" was built on. It was a society of hunter gathers that created an expansive trade network that reached from Louisiana to Ohio.

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