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Friday, September 22, 2017
 
Exploding whale
Exploding whale
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Florence, Oregon in November 1970, when a dead sperm whale (reported to be a gray whale) was blown up by the Oregon Highway Division in an attempt to dispose of its rotting carcass. The explosion threw whale flesh over 240 meters away.
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A charge of half a ton of dynamite was selected.[4][5] A military veteran with explosives training who happened to be in the area[2] warned that the planned twenty cases of dynamite was far too much – 20 sticks would have sufficed – but his advice went unheeded.
[...]
In his voice-over, [news reporter Paul Linnman of KATU-TV ] joked that "blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds."
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploding_whale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBgThvB_IDQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBgThvB_IDQ

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