Earth Is Weird

Scientists Discover the Amazon’s Legendary Boiling River Actually Exists and Can Cook You Alive

Hidden deep in the Peruvian Amazon, a river reaches temperatures of 196°F, hot enough to cook any animal that falls in. Until 2011, scientists dismissed the Shanay-timpishka as indigenous legend, but this deadly boiling river is very real and sits hundreds of miles from the nearest volcano.

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