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TIL That following the Messinian salinity crisis, during which the Mediterranean almost completely dried up for 630,000 years, 5.33 Ma ago the Zanclean flood happened: water broke through the Gibraltar Strait, filling the Mediterranean within months at 100,000,000 m³/s – 1,000x flow of the Amazon!

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