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There is a river in the Amazon that boils you alive. πŸ”₯
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Science Gone WrongJul 23, 2026

There is a river in the Amazon that boils you alive. πŸ”₯

There is a river in the Amazon that boils you alive. πŸ”₯ . . . Shanay-Timpishka runs 6.3 km (~3.9 miles) through the Peruvian rainforest at temperatures up to 210.4Β°F β€” near boiling. Frogs that fall in have their eyes cook white in seconds. Geologist AndrΓ©s Ruzo, who mapped it in 2011, says no volcano exists within 400 miles to explain it.

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