“The Great Wall of China is the only human-made object visible from space”. It is etched into our collective consciousness. It appears in travel brochures, old textbooks, and pop culture. It is a testament to human engineering and the sheer scale of ancient empires.

There is just one tiny problem: It is completely not true.

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