There's a
town in
Germany that is
literally physically splitting apart
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No, this isn't some weird idea for a Pixar movie — this is actually happening.
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In the clip above, Youtuber Tom Scott visits the
town of Staufen in south-west Germany. Staufen has a very unique problem: it is
splitting apart. Huge cracks run up buildings, and Scott finds out why.*
It turns out
that the government bored in the area for geothermic energy, but unfortunately the groundwater combined with a layer of anhydrite to form gypsum, which expanded causing the ground to bulge and the buildings to form these huge cracks.
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