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Read more: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Leedskalnin
TIL of Edward Leedskalnin, a man with fourth grade education, who solely built the Coral Castle with over 1,100 tons of coral rock, using only hand tools. When asked how, his reply was that he understood the laws of weight and leverage. Today, it is a museum open to the public.
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That place used to fascinate me as a kid.
Not only that… he moved the entire thing at one point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH2N0bUss1s
tl:dr he understood weight and leverage. and pullies. Nothing super complicated, but impressive nonetheless
People do a lot – in fact – the most without formal education. Intelligence is intelligence.
Yeah this dude was real interesting — he published a thing called “magnetic current” and gave the impression he used some secret to move the giant rocks but it was just multi chain leverage or something that ppl already knew about. Pretty cool tho first heard about him on ancient aliens