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In 1970 a group of soviet researchers set out to investigate the deep seismic and thermal properties of the Baltic shield. They set about drilling the hole on the kola peninsula and after a number of setbacks they finally reached the current deapth of 12262 m in 1989. To this day it is the deepest hole on the planet by several km.
But, in their 19 years of drilling, those soviet scientists didn't bore that hole as much as you've just bored me.
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