[Architecture fact 1] 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 fact 2] Shibam is an ancient mud skyscraper city in Yemen, which has been dubbed the ‘Manhattan of the Desert.’
[Architecture fact 3] The Temple of Artemis was burned by a man named Herostratus who sought to live in infamy. Despite his name becoming illegal to say, to deny him that infamy, it eventually became a metonym "Herostratic fame" meaning someone who commits an act to gain notoriety and infamy.
[Architecture fact 4] WWOOF (World Wide Opportunities for Organic Farming) is a program that allows a person to travel the world for free in exchange for volunteer work.
[Architecture fact 5] An introvert is more likely to choose to travel to the mountains for vacation, while an extrovert is more likely to travel to the beach.
[Architecture fact 6] Because traveling pulls people out of their own cultural bubbles, their sense of connection with different people increases.
[Architecture fact 7] In 2017, over four billion people flew on commercial aircrafts globally.
[Architecture fact 8] The “singing” Colossi of Memnon are two large statues of Pharoah Amenhotep III that have been described throughout history to be making low moaning, whistling, or blowing noises due to vaporizing dew escaping from cracks within the statues.
[Architecture fact 9] There is something known as ruin value, a concept that a building be designed such that if it eventually collapsed, it would leave behind aesthetically pleasing ruins that would last far longer without any maintenance at all.
[Architecture fact 10] The Krusty Krab is modeled after a New England lobster trap.
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