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  • March 24, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The Eiffel Tower in Paris was designed by engineer Gustave Eiffel and built for the 1889 World’s Fair. It was scheduled to be destroyed when the exposition’s lease expired 20 years later, but by then it had become too important as a radio antenna.

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