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TIL about Canvey Wick, an old industrial waste zone that is the most biodiverse place in Britain. Its history as a dumping ground for sediment waste from industrial processes means that it has a wide variety of soil conditions, with the result that it has the equivalent biodiversity of a rainforest.

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