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Science Gone Wrong
On September 15, 1830, MP William Huskisson became one of the first widely reported railway fatalities when he was struck by Stephenson's Rocket at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, dying that evening after his leg was crushed.
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Science Gone Wrong
One dam unleashed 12.4 billion gallons before midnight. 🌊
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Science Gone Wrong
A 42-mph wind made this bridge tear itself apart. 🌉
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Science Gone Wrong
This nuclear mass could kill you within five minutes. ☢️
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Creepy Discoveries
The Apartment Frozen in 1942
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Animal Oddities
Chaser, a border collie in Spartanburg, South Carolina, trained by retired psychology professor John W. Pilley starting in 2004, learned the proper-noun names of 1,022 individual toys and could retrieve each by name.
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Dark History
American parents once mailed children through Parcel Post. 📦
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Animal Oddities
A whale told a diver to get out of the water. 🐋
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Dark History
Women bought poison to remove unwanted hair. 🧴
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Ironic Twists
A priest tried to fly on 1,000 party balloons 🎈
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Heartwarming Humanity
A homeless veteran in Philadelphia gave his last $20 to buy gas for a stranded woman, and grateful strangers raised $400,000 for him through crowdfunding.
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Dark History
Shoe stores once X-rayed children just to sell sneakers. ☢️