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draugadrotten on Nov 25, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Falsehoods programmers believe about geography

>The one about "buildings do not move" is hilarious.

In Sweden, the whole city of Kiruna (complete with church, town hall, schools, shops and a station) is moved two miles to the east.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/and-you-thoug...

GotAnyMegadeth on Nov 25, 2013 | [–]

A similar thing happened with the Capital of Egypt when the Nile changed course http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pi-Ramesses#History

dagw on Nov 25, 2013 | [–]

And since they obviously thought it was so much fun the first time they're planning to do it again in Gällivare.

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