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The Lalibela Rock-Hewn Churches are located in Ethiopia, a country in East Africa, and they’re special because they weren’t built up from the ground — they were carved down into solid rock!

The Louvre Museum has survived one major fire throughout its history!

The clock mechanism in Big Ben is so precise that it’s regulated by a stack of old British pennies placed on the pendulum!

The Anangu know of more than 100 edible plants that grow around Uluru — nature’s supermarket!

The CN Tower uses special tuned mass dampers (giant weights) to stop it from swaying too much in the wind!