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The Amazon has no bridges crossing it

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Despite being thousands of miles long, zero engineers have bothered to build a bridge across it. The surrounding land is so swampy and prone to chaotic flooding that humanity just collectively gave up trying to pave over it.

The Amazon has no bridges crossing it
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