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Lateral with Tom Scott

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How to Build a House Under Rocks

Many of the oldest houses on the small Greek island of Ikaria have no chimneys and low ceilings. Many of them are also built under rocks. Why is this? All right, I'm going to immediately ask Emily the engineer. This feels like an engineering question.

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