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After WW2 over 700 surplus military ships were decommissioned at Tongue Point. The Navy was charged with the tasks that took from 1945 until the last ship left in 1962. These ships might be used for storage of surplus grains, sold to other nations, or recycled for the metal.






The Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana is the longest bridge in the United States, spanning 23.79 miles across Lake Pontchartrain. It's also the longest continuous bridge over water in the world. The bridge connects New Orleans with smaller communities on the north shore of the lake. It's made up of two parallel bridges supported by 9,500 concrete pilings.