How many playing cards does it take to build Beijing’s Bird’s Nest?

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Actually, make that the Bird’s Nest, plus the rest of Beijing’s flashiest Olympic venues.

Yup, in playing cards.

The answer? 140,000.

Check it out:

And it seems the card-stacker in the top video isn’t the only one into teeny tiny models of the Olympic Village.

Here’s the whole thing – right down to the sailing venues – in Lego:


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Eva Holland is a contributing editor to the Matador Network. She recently celebrated the one-year anniversary of quitting her day job to write and travel full time.

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