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The Sydney Opera House Cleans Itself

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The Sydney Opera House Cleans Itself

Did you know the Sydney Opera House is covered in over a million tiles that shrug off dirt? Its "sails" are clad in 1,056,006 self-cleaning Swedish tiles in two subtly different finishes, so the roof gleams white from afar but never looks flat up close. Rain rinses it clean.

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