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This Day In History: Wierdest Disaster Ever

On this day in 1915 (from the day of publishing, at least), argueably the strangest man-made disaster ever happened in Boston when a 50 foot, 2.3 million gallon tank of molasses collapsed. This created a wave of sugary destruction up to 15 feet-high, travelling at the breakneck speed (for molasses) of 35 mph and what must surely be one of the hardest clean-up efforts of a non-inherently lethal substance in recent history.

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Korean Government Seeks Arrest Warrants for Oil Spill Captains

South Korea will seek to prosecute the captains of the ships involved in the country’s worst oil spill. The water and beaches of the country’s western coast were covered in a thick layer

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