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The Day a Louisiana Lake Drained Into the Earth

In November 1980, a river in Louisiana runs backwards. It has something to do with a Texaco oil rig, a ten-foot-deep lake, and a salt mine nobody thought to mention was directly below. On November 20th, a drill bit punches through the roof of that mine two hundred feet under Lake Peigneur.

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