The Largest Pyramid in the World

 

We investigate the ruins of the world's biggest pyramid and recount the history of the people who made it, as best we know.

 

 

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Two chemists independently figured out how to extract aluminium using electricity in 1886. But the sheer coincidence of this historical event is nuts.

In 1886, an American named Charles Martin Hall and a Frenchman named Paul Héroult were both 22 years old. Working thousands of miles apart, with zero communication, they both independently realized that if you dissolve aluminium ore in a bath of molten cryolite and pass a high electrical current through it, pure aluminium separates out effortlessly.

Not only were they the exact same age when they made the identical discovery, but they were also born in the exact same year (1863) and died in the exact same year (1914). Their simultaneous genius gave birth to the modern Hall-Héroult process, permanently transforming a royal crown jewel into an everyday industrial commodity overnight.

 

 

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Calakmul mural reveals Preclassic writing and mythology

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