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The penny that saved Big Ben 🕰️ The most famous clock on Earth was running slow, and the experts couldn't fix it. Would you trust one penny with Big Ben? 👇 How Big Ben's Great Clock is kept on time: why the giant clock in London ran six seconds slow, the engineers who checked the gears, the air pressure, the temperature and even the pigeons, the 4-metre pendulum swinging inside the tower, and the old caretaker's strange idea to fix it with a penny. #bigben #london #clock #History #engineering #notsoboring

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Building a ship 101 🚢 If you sit on a log in the water, you have a boat. Viking longship or Titanic: which one are you boarding? 👇 How ships evolved from a floating log: the 10,000-year-old dugout canoe, Viking longships with a keel, galleons full of cannons, the Vasa that sank 20 minutes into its first trip in 1628, iron hulls with watertight rooms, why the Titanic sank, and today's double-hulled giant ships longer than the Eiffel Tower is tall. #ship #titanic #vikings #History #howitsmade #notsoboring

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Building a sea wall 101 🌊 If you pile up wet sand on a beach, you have a sandcastle. Would you live below sea level? 👇 How sea walls and dikes work: from a sandcastle and a moat to a packed sand wall with a clay skin and rock armour, the Dutch dikes that keep a quarter of the Netherlands dry below sea level, and the myth of the little Dutch boy who plugged a leak with his finger. #seawall #netherlands #dike #engineering #History #notsoboring

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Building a bank vault 101 🏦 If you bury your gold in the garden, you have a bank vault. How would you break in? Wrong answers only 👇 How bank vaults evolved: from buried gold to iron safes, stone strongrooms, combination dials, giant round steel doors balanced to swing shut with one finger, time locks from 1874, and the New York gold vault behind a 90-tonne steel cylinder. #bankvault #bank #History #howitsmade #engineering #notsoboring

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The first toilet 🚽 If you dig a hole and squat over it, you have a toilet. Would you have used the Romans' shared sponge? 🧽👇 How toilets evolved from a hole in the ground: Roman public toilets with one shared sponge on a stick, chamber pots thrown out of windows, the 1596 flushing toilet made for the Queen of England, the S-bend that stops the smell, and London's Great Stink of 1858 that led to the brick sewers we still use. #toilet #History #romans #howitsmade #historyfacts #notsoboring

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The first roller coaster 🎢 If you push a cart to the top of a hill and jump in, you have a roller coaster. Front row or back row? 👇 How roller coasters evolved from a cart rolling down a hill: wooden tracks, the Pennsylvania coal mine railway people paid to ride, chain lifts and the click-clack anti-rollback ratchet, circular loops that caused whiplash, teardrop loops, upstop wheels that lock the car to the rail, and drops steeper than vertical. #rollercoaster #themepark #History #howitworks #notsoboring

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The first submarine 🌊 If you hold your breath and swim under a boat, you're a submarine. Would you have climbed into the 1620 leather one? 👇 How submarines were invented: a leather-covered rowing boat under the Thames in 1620, the one-man Turtle in 1776, the Hunley in 1864, how ballast tanks make a submarine dive and rise, and nuclear submarines that stay underwater for months. #submarine #History #navy #howitworks #engineering #notsoboring

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The first greenhouse 🌱 If you put a glass jar over a plant, you have a greenhouse. How greenhouses evolved from a glass jar: the Roman cucumber cart for Emperor Tiberius, brick orangeries with stoves and hot water pipes, the Crystal Palace of 1851 inspired by a giant lily leaf, and the Netherlands' greenhouses you can see from space. #greenhouse #History #crystalpalace #howitsmade #gardening #animation #notsoboring

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Digging a tunnel 101 🚇 If you dig a hole under a river, you have a tunnel. How tunnels are built: the Thames Tunnel shield inspired by a shipworm, the dinner party held inside it, the London Tube, and the giant boring machines that dug the Channel Tunnel (one was later sold on eBay). #tunnel #engineering #History #london #channeltunnel #animation #notsoboring

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Building a stadium 101 🏟️ If you sit on a hill to watch two guys wrestle, you have a stadium. How stadiums evolved from a grassy hill: Greek theatres carved into hillsides, the Roman Colosseum with 80 arches that emptied 50,000 people in minutes, a giant canvas roof rigged by sailors, trapdoors and lifts for lions, and flooding the arena for sea battles. #colosseum #stadium #rome #History #howitsmade #animation #notsoboring

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Building a trebuchet 101 🏰 If you tie a sling to a long pole and yank the short end down, you have a trebuchet. How the trebuchet evolved: from 50 men pulling ropes to a giant box of rocks as a counterweight, wheels that let it roll forward when it fires, armies flinging beehives and dead cows over castle walls, and King Edward I's giant Warwolf in 1304. #trebuchet #medieval #castle #History #engineering #animation #notsoboring

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Building a prison 101 🔒 If you dig a hole and throw a thief in it, you have a prison. How prisons evolved from a hole in the ground: the oubliette, stone towers with iron bars and guards, island prisons like Alcatraz, and the 1962 escape with fake heads and a raincoat raft. #prison #alcatraz #History #howitsmade #escape #animation #notsoboring

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