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Tokyo built an underground cathedral powered by aircraft jet engines to stop floods.
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• Footage courtesy: Civil Mentors (@CivilMentors) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvikcj8A1Bw
• Footage courtesy: Animagraffs (@animagraffs) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L24Wf0VlTE0

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00:00Tokyo hides a colossal subterranean cathedral beneath the city streets.
00:05Massive concrete pillars hold up a subterranean vault large enough to swallow the Statue of Liberty.
00:1114,000 horsepower aircraft jet engines pump millions of gallons of raging flood water safely into Tokyo Bay.
00:20Powerful axial pumps rapidly discharge millions of gallons into the nearby Edo River.
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