The reason firehouses have circular stairways is from the days of old when the engines were pulled by horses. The horses were stabled on the ground floor and figured out how to walk up straight staircases.
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The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, because engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
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