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150 Years of Moon Crabs, Blowing Things Up, and Asbestos Obsession

The Weirdest Thing I Learned This Week

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Popsi's Explosion in 1931

Lasson has been quiet ever since, except for this one time in 19 31. The explosion was devised as aa celebration by one l w Collins. And it devastated the land for several miles around. There was actually ash reportedly falling like 300 miles away. But according to that that historical blog from a tim perty, the wind actually blew the smoke away,. so quickly that like, it didn't look like a real eruption. Anybody not that i think it would have really looked like areal eruption, let alone the giant one they were supposedly trying to evoke. It was just like basically setting off a very large firework in on top of a mountain. People did say it

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