Bicycles were once piled so deep in Amsterdam’s canals that they scraped the bottoms of the barges going over them. A crew has been pulling them out since the 1960s with a hydraulic claw mounted on a boat, and it still lifts about 12,000 a year into a scrap barge.

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Every year, Amsterdam's canal-cleaning crew hauls out enough bicycles to fill a small parking lot—a mundane operation so routine it's easy to forget it's actually extraordinary. The post Bicycles were once piled so deep in Amsterdam’s canals that they scraped the bottoms of the barges going over them. A crew has been pulling them out since the 1960s with a hydraulic claw mounted on a boat, a

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