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TIL that there is a massive “undergound river”, or aquifer that runs about 4 kilometers below the Amazon river for 6000 kilometers, following roughly the Amazon river’s flow. It eventually empties in the Atlantic Ocean deep below the surface. It was only discovered in 2011.

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