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Did you know? In Turkmenistan a gas crater called "Door to Hell" has been burning since 1971 — Soviet geologists collapsed a gas field and set it alight to burn off poisonous gas. They thought "a few weeks". It is still burning, more than 50 years later.

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In Turkmenistan a gas crater called "Door to Hell" has been burning since 1971 — Soviet geologists collapsed a gas field and set it alight to burn off poisonous gas. They thought "a few weeks". It is still burning, more than 50 years later.

In Turkmenistan brandt sinds 1971 een gas-krater "Door to Hell" — Sovjet-geologen lieten een gasveld instorten en staken het in brand om gif-gassen weg te branden. Ze dachten "een paar weken". Het brandt nog steeds, meer dan 50 jaar later.

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