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The canal that reversed a river
HERE’S THE INTERESTING PART
Shaving 8,000 miles off the trip around South America sounded like a stellar idea until the French and then the Americans actually tried digging through a malaria-infested jungle. The engineering marvel of the century was primarily achieved by sending thousands of laborers to die of yellow fever and mudslides, making it the bloodiest shortcut in human history.
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