[Architecture fact 1] 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 fact 2] Buildings in Hong Kong have gaping holes to allow dragons free passage from their mountain homes to the sea.
[Architecture fact 3] Men who do not take a vacation at least once a year have a 20% higher risk of death and 30% greater risk of heart disease.
[Architecture fact 4] "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 fact 5] The Krusty Krab is modeled after a New England lobster trap.
[Architecture fact 6] France lost so many workers during its failed attempt to dig the Panama Canal, that for a time their project's main source of income was selling the corpses (pickled in brine water) to medical schools all over the world as cadavers.
[Architecture fact 7] The Big Ben’s bell has a unique sound because it cracked in 1859, barely two months after its inauguration. The bell has since been oriented in such a way that the hammer doesn’t strike the ‘crack.’
[Architecture fact 8] Women who vacation at least twice a year have a significantly lower risk of suffering a heart attack than those who travel every six years or so.
[Architecture fact 9] The marble lions outside the New York Public Library were named Patience and Fortitude by Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia during the Great Depression.
[Architecture fact 10] During the 1980s Japanese property bubble, the value of the Tokyo Imperial Palace was higher than all of the real estate in the state of California.
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