If you dug a hole to the center of the Earth and then dropped a brick down it, it would take 45 minutes for the brick to hit the bottom.
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Bill Bryson, A Really Short History of Nearly Everything… Read More
As many as 30,000 forced laborers died from malaria, dysentery, and exhaustion while building St. Petersburg, which became the Russian capital in 1712. It became known as “the city built upon human bones.”