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The Panama Canal was built because oceans wanted a shortcut and humans wanted bragging rights.

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The Panama Canal was built to shorten ship travel between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It opened in 1914 after French and then American construction. Oceans did not want a shortcut.

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