Kola: The World’s Deepest Hole
The hosts of Stuff You Should Know dive into the wild, forgotten Cold War race to drill the deepest hole into Earth, spotlighting the Soviet Union’s Kola Superdeep Borehole — a 7.6-mile-deep scientific marvel that rewrote geology, shocked scientists with liquid water and ancient fossils
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