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The pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench is one thousand times greater than at the surface.

Why it is true

At a depth of about eleven thousand meters, the pressure reaches over one thousand atmospheres, equivalent to having fifty commercial jets stacked on a person.

Source: NOAA

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