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 Since 2008, the very slender chasm has been bolted shut with a dinner-plate-sized steel cover that measures only about 9 inches across. But the hole it hides plunges down for more than 40,000 feet into the earth and took more than 20 years to dig. That’s deeper than the altitude at which most commercial airlines fly and deeper by about 20,000 feet than any other hole anywhere else on Earth.

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