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    The Grand Canyon was formed as the Colorado River cut through the Colorado Plateau over 2 billion years, carving a canyon over 6,000 feet deep that exposes geological formations from that time period. Meteor Crater in Arizona was created by a meteorite impact around 40,000 mph that left a crater over a mile wide and 570 feet deep. The first atomic bomb was tested in 1945 in the New Mexico desert near Alamogordo, with an explosive force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT from only 1 kg of plutonium.

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    The Grand Canyon was formed as the Colorado River cut through the Colorado Plateau over 2 billion years, carving a canyon over 6,000 feet deep that exposes geological formations from that time period. Meteor Crater in Arizona was created by a meteorite impact around 40,000 mph that left a crater over a mile wide and 570 feet deep. The first atomic bomb was tested in 1945 in the New Mexico desert near Alamogordo, with an explosive force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT from only 1 kg of plutonium.

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    The Grand Canyon was formed as the Colorado River cut through the Colorado Plateau over 2 billion years, carving a canyon over 6,000 feet deep that exposes geological formations from that time period. Meteor Crater in Arizona was created by a meteorite impact around 40,000 mph that left a crater over a mile wide and 570 feet deep. The first atomic bomb was tested in 1945 in the New Mexico desert near Alamogordo, with an explosive force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT from only 1 kg of plutonium.

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    The Grand Canyon was formed as the Colorado River cut through the Colorado Plateau over 2 billion years, carving a canyon over 6,000 feet deep that exposes geological formations from that time period. Meteor Crater in Arizona was created by a meteorite impact around 40,000 mph that left a crater over a mile wide and 570 feet deep. The first atomic bomb was tested in 1945 in the New Mexico desert near Alamogordo, with an explosive force equivalent to 20,000 tons of TNT from only 1 kg of plutonium.

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