Chile’s Atacama desert has been “super dry”--and has remained so--longer than any other place on Earth. The desert only sees rain two _____26_____ four times a century. Flies do not exist there because there is nothing to eat. There are no trees, no lakes, no little animals _____27_____ . Some areas have been dry for almost 40 million years. In some places of the desert, there are no human records of a single drop of rain. It is _____28_____ dry that when a person dies, his body does not go rotten. The desert is the only place in the world _____29_____ saltpeter can be found. Saltpeter is easily mixed with water and disappears in the water so the desert is perfect for _____30_____ it. In fact, scientists have found that the dry river beds in the desert have had no water running through them for 120,000 years.
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