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. Read more...