World Rivers Day: 7 record-breaking rivers, and the weird stories behind them

World Rivers Day: 7 record-breaking rivers, and the weird stories behind them
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From the spires of Vienna to the depths of the Congo, rivers punctuate almost every landscape on Earth, bringing life-giving water to plants, animals and people, and often defining entire ecosystems.

These superlative waterways are foremost of their kind – whether very long, very deep, or quite literally out of this world…

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