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• [Architecture fact 1]  In Japan, houses are considered depreciating assets. Half of all homes are destroyed by the time they are 38 and rebuilt. There are 4 times as many architects and twice as many construction workers per capita as the US. There is no home equity LOC and virtually no home improvement industry.

  Architecture, Countries source

• [Architecture fact 2]  In 2017, over four billion people flew on commercial aircrafts globally.

  Architecture, Travel

• [Architecture fact 3]  Director Guillermo del Toro owns a house called, 'Bleak House' in which there is a room with a never-ending rainstorm projected onto all windows and audio to match. He often uses this room to write.

  Architecture, Places source

• [Architecture fact 4]  About 112 people died during the construction of Hoover Dam. The first was J. G. Tierney, a surveyor who drowned on December 20, 1922, while looking for an ideal spot for the dam. His son, Patrick W. Tierney, was the last man to die working on the dam, 13 years to the day later, in 1935. So yeah a father and son died on the same day, 14 years apart while working on Hoover Dam.

  Architecture, Death, People source

• [Architecture fact 5]  The Tennessee Valley Authority, now known as one of the largest electricity producers in the U.S., was created by Congress and Roosevelt in 1936 to improve the infrastructure and economy of the Appalachia region which, at the time, was one of the most impoverished parts of the country.

  Architecture, Misc source

• [Architecture fact 6]  The longest echo in a man-made structure is produced in an abandoned oil depot in Scotland, the Inchindown Oil Tanks. The echo lasts for 112 seconds.

  Architecture, Misc source

• [Architecture fact 7]  Radio waves travel faster than sound waves. If you stand at the base of Big Ben you can hear the chime on the radio before you hear it in real life.

  Architecture, Science source

• [Architecture fact 8]  "Hodophobia" is the fear of traveling or road traveling. The word "hodo" is Greek for "travel" or "road," and "phobia" is Greek for "fear."

  Architecture, Travel

• [Architecture fact 9]  The most visited city in the world is Bangkok, Thailand, with over 20.2 million international visitors. London (20 million international visitors) and Paris (16.1 million international visitors) round out the top 3.

  Architecture, Travel

• [Architecture fact 10]  When Hugh Hefner died, the Playboy Mansion became the property of neighbor Daren Metropoulos who bought the estate in 2016 for $100 million. He reportedly struck a deal with Los Angeles officials that will permanently protect it from demolition, even from future owners.

  Architecture, People source

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