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[–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

Fun Eiffel Tower fact: for the Chicago World's Fair in 1893, Eiffel offered to build a duplicate of his Parisian tower built four years earlier, but twice as tall. Chicago went with the Ferris Wheel instead, saving us from Eiffel Bueller's Day Off.

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