Two Countries Built A Joint Bridge. They Messed It Up.
Go to go.ubigi.com/7XbM05 and use the code WHATONEARTH for a 10% discount on your Ubigi eSIM! Either way, you join me today in two countries. One's Swiss, one's German, and they're both very nice. Well done to both of them. But it turns out that they once attempted to build a bridge and ballsed it up so badly that they had to redo almost the entire thing. And it was all due to a strange quirk in how humans understand gravity and tides. Isn't that weird? Enjoy this strange little story from the town of Laufenburg and let me go back to sleep. ------------ Welcome to What On Earth Is This?, a YouTube channel featuring strange and quirky things from around the world that you may not have heard of. Think abandoned engineering marvels, weird funiculars, transit oddities and other bits of history you never wanted to know about... until now. Like and subscribe and all that. Follow me on IG at @WhatOnEarthIsThis CHAPTERS: 00:12 Intro 00:44 History of Laufenburg 02:52 Bridging the gap 04:44 Building building building 06:12 What even is "sea level"? 07:42 The Germany/Switzerland Problem 11:08 The big twist 14:01 An outro where I complain a lot CORRECTIONS: 1:45: I have no idea why I was so lazy with the script here - I didn't mean to say there are no customs checks between DE and CH... I'm actually not sure what I was trying to say but it wasn't that. Either way, sorry!
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