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Have you been craving peace and quiet lately? I think many people have. Did you know there's a place in Minneapolis, Minnesota that was once the Guinness Book of World Record's 'The Quietest Place on Earth'? It's at Orfield Laboratories. While it's no longer considered THEE quietest place on Earth (the record was taken from them in 2015 by Microsoft), it's still extremely quiet, and you can visit it.
The room is called the Anechoic Chamber. It's pretty much a room full of those foam sound-proofing panels. It sounds like an unsettling experience. Orfield Laboratories hosts tours where you're taken into the room. One tour takes you in there for a short period of time, but there's another one called The Orfield Challenge where you see how long you can sit in the dark in the 'World's Quietest Room'.