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Either way, you join me today in two countries. One’s Swiss, one’s German, and they’re both very nice. Well done to both of them.

But it turns out that they once attempted to build a bridge and ballsed it up so badly that they had to redo almost the entire thing. And it was all due to a strange quirk in how humans understand gravity and tides. Isn’t that weird?

Enjoy this strange little story from the town of Laufenburg and let me go back to sleep.

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Welcome to What On Earth Is This?, a YouTube channel featuring strange and quirky things from around the world that you may not have heard of.

Think abandoned engineering marvels, weird funiculars, transit oddities and other bits of history you never wanted to know about… until now.

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CHAPTERS:
00:12 Intro
00:44 History of Laufenburg
02:52 Bridging the gap
04:44 Building building building
06:12 What even is “sea level”?
07:42 The Germany/Switzerland Problem
11:08 The big twist
14:01 An outro where I complain a lot

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