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Are you on mobile? Or something else might be breaking formatting for you. The chart linked does have numbers for the Panama Canal (408.12) and Burma-Siam Railway (385.45).

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40% of workers died building the Panama Canal? That's nuts.

The history of the canal itself is pretty interesting. It was an effort started by the French, who lost too many workers to tropical diseases (specifically malaria). Then the Americans took over, and one of the reasons they succeeded was they made sure to take preventative measures to protect workers from malaria.

No, I'm on Firefox 63.0b9 on MacOS.

Looks like I zoomed in (cmd-+) a few times to make the numbers more readable, and went past what the page's CSS could handle.

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