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The Amazing Amazon

  • June 25, 2014
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The Nile is generally listed as the world’s longest river, but the largest by waterflow is the Amazon, the second longest. According to NASA, the amount of water flowing from the Amazon into the Atlantic Ocean every second would fill about 88 Olympic-sized swimming pools!

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