23 Behind-The-Scenes (Weird) Looks At Everyday Life

Have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of the processes that allow us to live our lives in comfort?
23 Behind-The-Scenes (Weird) Looks At Everyday Life

Infrastructure is insanely intricate. Most of us in the 21st have grown accustomed to certain levels of comfort—clean water, flushing toilets, halfway decent internet and TV—but have you ever stopped to think about exactly how much goes into making all that happen? Harnassing power, extracting resources, treating water—all of these things have to be done to support modern life, and they have to be done as sustainably as possible. No one wants to end up like Snowpiercer. The only babies we're tasting is our six-month-old's cute little toesies. 

Nowadays, we always get the scoop on how our favorite movies are made. You can go to YouTube and take a tour of a factory. But have you ever wondered what goes on behind the scenes of the processes that allow us to live our lives in comfort? We asked our readers to do just that, and gave $200 to the winner ...

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The Sudokwon Landfill (South Korea) covers 20 million m2. It is the world's largest trash dump in terms of surface area, and it gathers 6.3 million to
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Measured by volume, the Boeing Factory in Everett, Washington is the largest building in the world. It covers 98 acres: more than all of Disneyland. I
The G-Cans Project in Japan is the world's largest underground flood water diversion facility. The complex spans 6.3km between Showa in Tokyo and Kasu
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Cheggs is a textbook sales and rental company, one of a few options for college students This is Chegg's 600,00 squarefoot warehouse, able to process
If you pick up your new Volkswagen from the factory in Wolfsburg, a robot will find it in one of the 400-car towers and personally deliver it to you.
Europe's largest wine warehouse, Constellation Park, stores 36 million bottles of wine before being sent to supermarkets and liquor stores. ADMN CRACK
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The Waltham Point Depot stands at a huge 750,000 square feet (the equivalent of 267 tennis courts). It has three million cases and four-anda-halfmiles
Ever wondered what ingenious solution engineers came up with to unclog the paris sewer? Well, a apparently, they just drop this ball at the top of the
These are some of Google's servers. Each container holds 160 servers. Google Each warehouse contains around 200,000 servers. EE U TEEE EEED PEPFPER FE
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