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The Great Lakes

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

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The Kayahoga River Fire

"This is the apocalypse," he says. "I think I delivered it pretty upbeat before, but it would be everyone dying." The Kayahoga River fire in Cleveland was not a myth as some people have claimed; there were more than a dozen documented fires on that river within the previous hundred years of this 1969 river. It's like trying to imagine what a trillion dollars looks like and you can't understand it.

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