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TIL it is possible to build his own life-sized lego house
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TIL that Machu Picchu is earthquake resistant. The Incans created an engineering technique called ‘ashlar masonry’, where rocks are cut to fit perfectly together without mortar. This allowed the stones to move in its place during an earthquake, before settling back in their original positions
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TIL the Pillars of Creation don’t actually exist anymore and have been destroyed over 1000 years ago.
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TIL the Unabomber's (Ted Kaczynski) cabin was in FBI storage for several years before becoming a museum piece.
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TIL that Adam Savage, host of Mythbusters, wanted to disprove creationism on an episode of Mythbusters, saying, “I’m sick of fifty percent of this country thinking creationism is reasonable. It’s appalling.”
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TIL about Spacecraft cemetery, the oceanic dumping ground where spaceships go to die. The area is roughly centered on Point Nemo —location farthest from any land, International Space Station is slated to end up there upon "retirement" and join other 263 disposed satellites.