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What s True
The Kola Superdeep Borehole, a Soviet engineering project that occurred from the late 1960s to the early 1990s, is the deepest artificially created hole on Earth. Some of the rocks they drilled through contained ancient fossil plankton. What s False
However, the project s termination had nothing to do with fossils, and everything to do with the fact that it became too hot to drill any deeper. Further, almost all of the pictures used in the advertisement and in the clickbait article that it links to are completely unrelated to the Kola Superdeep Borehole.
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