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• [Architecture fact 1] The German word "fernweh" means "far sickness," or an intense urge to travel.

  Architecture, Travel

• [Architecture fact 2] When the Atom Bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, the light from the fireball was so intense that it melted the copper of the surrounding buildings

  Architecture, Disaster, Weaponssource

• [Architecture fact 3] A Roman general named Marcus Licinius Crassus, also one of the richest men in history used to purchase buildings on fire for a very low price and then put the fires out with his trained army of 500 slaves and rebuild them. If the owners refused to sell their property, he would not engage in firefighting.

  Architecture, Disaster, Peoplesource

• [Architecture fact 4] The Copsey Brothers were the first men to build a jail in Lower Lake, CA, the first to occupy it, after celebrating its completion too enthusiastically, and the first to escape, after realizing they had forgotten to nail down the roof.

  Architecture, Placessource

• [Architecture fact 5] When George Washington became president, he scrapped the plans for “Washington monument” as he didn’t want to use public money for a personal memorial monument. Long after he died, in 1833 a small group of Washingtonians established a society to raise private funds for the project and got it built.

  Architecture, Presidentsource

• [Architecture fact 6] The Great Pyramid of Giza was the tallest building in the world for 3871 years until it was beaten by a cathedral in a town called Lincoln in the UK.

  Architecture, Countries, Historysource

• [Architecture fact 7] The largest human migration in America occurs annually at Thanksgiving, with nearly 51 million traveling home for the holidays.

  Architecture, Travel

• [Architecture fact 8] In ancient Rome, the architectural feature called a "vomitorium" was the entranceway through which crowds entered and exited a stadium. The Latin word vomitorium derives from the verb vomitum which means "to spew forth".

  Architecture, Placessource

• [Architecture fact 9] When Japan occupied Korea, they built Shinto Shrines to enforce “Japanization” of Korea. One of these shrines (the national shrine) was Chōsen Shrine. When Japan surrendered, Korea demolished it and built a monument to An Jung-Geun, the man who assassinated Japan's Prince, Itō Hirobumi.

  Architecture, Places, Warsource

• [Architecture fact 10] In 1632, a year after the death of Mumtaz Mahal, the Empress consort of the Mughal Empire, her husband emperor Shah Jahan had her body exhumed and brought to Agra. Then he started work on building her a mausoleum. 22 years later the Taj Mahal was finished.

  Architecture, Monarchsource

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