Loch Ness in Scotland holds more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined, reaching depths of over seven hundred feet in a massive geological fault line carved by ancient glaciers.

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Loch Ness in Scotland holds more fresh water than all the lakes in England and Wales combined, reaching depths of over seven hundred feet in a massive geological fault line carved by ancient glaciers. Instead of marveling at this stunning, massive geological phenomenon, tourists stare intensely at the dark, choppy water through binoculars, desperately hoping to spot a blurry prehistoric sea monster invented by a local journalist in the 1930s. The entire local economy is propped up by the sale of plush green dinosaur toys and blurry, pixelated postcards. It is genuinely impressive how an entire region convinced the world to travel to a freezing, gloomy Scottish lake just to look for a mythical creature that absolutely no one with a functioning brain believes in!