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While the dogs are out front doing all the exhausting physical labor, the human literally just stands on two pieces of wood at the back. It is the ultimate…
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Chicago engineers spent the mid-nineteenth century physically lifting entire brick buildings, streets, and sidewalks up to fourteen feet in the air using…
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The carnival classic exists purely because you cannot walk around a fairground holding a hot dog in batter. By impaling the meat on a thick wooden spike…
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Despite literally inventing the airplane and commercializing global travel, a shocking chunk of the US nation remains aggressively grounded. Whether due to…
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When a lake is simply too deep for normal pillars, engineers just decide to make concrete float. They build massive, hollow, completely sealed concrete boxes,…
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Before computerized flight physics, getting on a plane was basically a trip to the deli counter. In the 1920s, commercial airlines demanded that passengers…
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