01/11/2020
1. The world’s largest treehouse has over 80 rooms, 10 floors and took the builder over 14 years to build.
2. The five-story pagoda building in Horyuji, Japan, is the oldest wooden building on earth. It was built with timber from trees that were harvested in 600 A.D.
3. Adolf Hi**er once owned a mansion in Hollywood that he never stepped foot in.
4. There are castles for sale in France that cost less than a two-bedroom apartment in Australia.
5. Canada and Denmark have disputed their claim to Hans Island for decades. Both countries will periodically visit the island to remove the other country’s flag and leave a bottle of Danish Schnapps or Canadian Whiskey. This is how friendly nations wage war.
6. In 1997, Pepsi held a contest to win a life-size replica of the Simpsons house or $75,000. The contest winner chose the cash. The house was then renovated to look like a normal home and re-sold.
7. Amazon named a building after its first customer, who spent $27.95 to buy one book. The purchase was made in 1995, and the book was about artificial intelligence.
8. Mark Zuckerberg purchased four houses next to his home in Palo Alto and leased them back to the families that lived there. He did it to avoid the houses from being marketed as “next door to Mark Zuckerberg.”
9. The biggest pyramid on earth is not in Egypt, but in Mexico — and it’s hidden under a mountain.
10. From 1949 – 1952, the white house was completely gutted and rebuilt with concrete and steel beams in place of its original wooden joists.
11. The Wi******er Mansion was constructed non-stop, 24 hours a day for 38 years. Many claimed the property was haunted by the ghosts of those killed with Wi******er rifles.
12. There’s a building in Japan with a highway going through its fifth, sixth and seventh floors. The highway is listed as the tenant on all three floors.
13. Most traditional Chinese temples were designed with curved roofs to ward off evil spirits, which are thought to only move in straight lines.
14. The U.S. Capitol Building in Washington D.C. has 365 steps to represent each day of the year.
15. Canada has the longest coastline of any country in the world.
