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TIL in 1987 the US Army Corps of Engineers completed the Pikeville Cut-Through, the second-largest earth-moving operation in the western hemisphere, second to the Panama Canal. It's a 1.1km long 4-lane highway cut-through in Pikeville Kentucky.

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