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by Tyler

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• "Chunnel" is the nickname for the Channel Tunnel.
• The Chunnel cost $15 billion to build.
• The Chunnel consists of three rails: 1 service rail, 1 rail East and 1 rail West.
• The Chunnel is 32 miles long. 23 miles of it is 150 ft. under the seabed of the English Channel.
• It would take a bullet train 20 minutes to cross the Channel.
• If all the tunnels were connected it would be 95 miles long.
• 1300 technicians, engineers, and workers built the Chunnel.
• The volume of rock removed to make the Chunnel would be three times the volume needed to make the Cheops pyramid.
• The Chunnel increased the area of Britain by 90 acres. That's 68 football fields.

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