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TIL that the longest ship ever built was the Seawise Giant, it was 1,500 foot long, it was longer than the Empire State building is high. It had a 36 tonne anchor and it weighed 564,000 tonnes. It doesn't exist anymore and was sold for scrap to a Indian breaking yard.

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