Comments on: Some Useless Facts http://www.blogiseverything.com/factoids/some-useless-facts/ Blogging About Everything Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:44:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Joseph Dunphy http://www.blogiseverything.com/factoids/some-useless-facts/#comment-127226 Joseph Dunphy Fri, 17 Aug 2007 15:40:29 +0000 http://www.blogiseverything.com/factoids/some-useless-facts/#comment-127226 "The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building." No, it doesn't. http://www.indiana.edu/~libweb/campus/libsink.html People really need to start using their common sense on this one. The library was up and running in 1969 http://www.indiana.edu/~libweb/info/history/docs/mainlib.html and it is now 2007, 38 years later. At the rate of "over an inch a year", the library would have sunk over three feet already. How would users get in and out the front door? “The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.”

No, it doesn’t.

http://www.indiana.edu/~libweb/campus/libsink.html

People really need to start using their common sense on this one. The library was up and running in 1969

http://www.indiana.edu/~libweb/info/history/docs/mainlib.html

and it is now 2007, 38 years later. At the rate of “over an inch a year”, the library would have sunk over three feet already. How would users get in and out the front door?

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