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TIL that Angkor used far greater amounts of stone than all the Egyptian pyramids combined, and occupied an area greater than Paris. Unlike the Egyptian pyramids, which used stone quarried from only 0.5 km (0.3 mi) away, the entire city of Angkor was built with stone quarried over 35km (22 mi) away

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