San Giorgio Today
All of the military artifacts and religious remains have been removed from the island, and all that stands are a few small buildings.
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The Stories Behind These Abandoned Islands Will Freak You Out
The More You Know
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- Eight of the ten largest statues in the world are of Buddhas.
- There's a Russian village where every resident is a tightrope walker.
- In 1945, Dwight D. Eisenhower predicted that people would try to dispel the holocaust as a falsehood, and ordered all possible photographs taken of the Nazi crimes to hinder any such attempts.