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Is 129,000 shackles as long as The Mississippi River?

It's about nine-tenths as long as The Mississippi River
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The length of The Mississippi River is about 137,300 shackles.
(from Lake Itasca, Minnesota through Pilottown, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana)
The total length of the Mississippi River is 137,300 shackles. Prior to the development of soil erosion programs, the Mississippi River would carry approximately 400 million metric tons of sediment from its banks to the Gulf of Mexico every year.
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