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Almost half the population of Hong Kong lives in an apartment that is on the 15th floor or higher.

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Taipei 101, the second tallest building in the world uses a 728 ton pendulum to counter the force of wind on the building. It is suspended from the 87th to the 92nd floor.

All the people in the world standing shoulder to shoulder would take up only 500 square miles (1300 square kilometers). That's just slightly bigger than the size of the city of Los Angeles.

The Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai is the tallest structure on our planet, measuring 2716 feet (828 meters). Alain Robert (a.k.a "The Spider Man") climbed the tower on the outside in six hours.

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A hundred years ago, the world population was 1.5 billion. Today it is more than 7 billion.

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