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This lake will kill you and turn you into a statue

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If you go to Tanzania, don’t bathe in Lake Natron or you will end up like these animals: petrified for all eternity thanks to the water’s extreme alkalinity. The animals get confused by the lake’s reflectivity and stay there until they turn into statues.

https://gizmodo.com/any-animal-that-touches-this-lethal-lake-turns-to-stone-1436606506

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