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Seven Miles Deep?!

  • July 25, 2012
  • By KIDS DISCOVER

The deepest hole drilled on Earth is in Russia, at a research facility on the Kola peninsula near Norway. It took 15 years to reach a depth of 40,226 feet. That’s more than seven miles down!

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