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TIL about Inca polygonal masonry, where they would use huge stones cut into unique shapes that fit so well together that they didn't use mortar. The largest of these (at Sacsayhuamán) was ~200 tons, or 80 times the size of the blocks used at Giza. They didn't use draft animals, wheels, or pulleys.

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