stackyFACTSIf you ever wondered why books are heavy, ask the engineers who design library floors. The sheer, concentrated weight of thousands of paper volumes requires insanely reinforced concrete and specialized structural steel, making these quiet reading rooms vastly more expensive to build than office buildings.
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