General Ignorance: What's the single largest man-made structure on Earth?

Wrong answers include the Great Pyramid, the Great Wall of China and (for clever-dicks) Mubarak al-Kabir Tower, Kuwait!


The answer is Fresh Kills, the rubbish dump on Staten Island, New York. Opened in 1948, the Fresh Kills landfill site soon became one of the largest projects in human history, eventually trumping the Great Wall of China as the world's largest man-made structure. 


It is now shut down and is currently being flattened and landscaped into a parkland and wildlife facility. 

Looks like we are moving forward in the world after all.