strange facts about buildings?

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1. Amit bang
   

   Although George Washington oversaw the construction of the White House, he never actually lived there.
   
   Most of the population of the South Australian town of Coober Bay live underground. Some houses were converted from old opal mines but others have been dug out specifically as residences. They offer protection from the hot days and bitterly cold nights. The town also boasts The Desert Cave, Australia’s first underground five-star hotel.
   
   There are over 10 million bricks in the Empire State Building .
   
   A team of Canadians built a 21ft 6in high sand castle in 1993.
   
   A house in Rockport , Massachusetts , is made entirely from recycled newspaper. The walls have 215 reinforced layers of newsprint. Not surprisingly, smoking is prohibited inside.
   
   Within the space of a few months in 1023, Scotsman Arthur Ferguson succeeded in selling three different London landmarks to gullible American tourists. He sold Big Ben for a £1000 deposit, Buckingham Palace for £2000 and Nelson’s Column for £6000.
   
   Back in the 19 th century, St Enodoc Church at Daymer Bay in Cornwall , was almost completely submerged by sand blown in from the nearby dunes. The pnly way in was through the roof and that was how the vicar got in every Christmas to fulfil the requirement that a vicar had to enter his church at least once a year.
   
   Ever since it was built in 1972, the 60-storey John Hancock Tower in Boston , Massachusetts , has suffered from windows suddenly popping out and shattering onto the street below. The John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Agency tried to remedy the problem by replacing all 10,334 windows with 400lb sections of tempered glass, but still the windows continued to smash for no apparent reason. So now the company hires two permanent guards who do nothing but patrol the street looking for cracked panes before they come crashing down on to passers-by.
   
   Jules Undersea Lodge is an underwater hotel, five fathoms down in the Florida Keys . A converted underwater research station, it has a restaurant and two rooms, both with private baths, and can cater for six guests at a time.
   
   In Washington , DC , it is illegal to have a building taller than the Capitol.
   
   The Sultan of Brunei’s palace has 1788 rooms and 257 toilets, The underground garage accommodates the Sultan’s 150-plus cars.
   
   The main library as Indiana University sinks over an inch every year. When it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would be housed in the building.

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