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TIL that the Seine, Rhine, Thames, Elbe, Meuse, Amstel and Sheldt Rivers were all tributaries of a now lost mega river called the Channel River that flowed through the now sunken Doggerland to the Bay of Biscay, eighteen thousand years ago.

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