Strange History

On November 12, 1970 the Oregon Department of Transportation (Highway Division) used a half ton of dynamite in an attempt to disintegrate an enormous dead Pacific grey whale that had washed ashore in Florence, OR several days prior. The explosion launched bits of whale as far as a quarter mile away, and one especially large…

November 7, 1492 is when the Ensisheim meteorite fell just outside the town walls of Ensisheim in Alsace, now France. It’s the oldest meteorite fall with a recorded observation, and the oldest in Europe to have any material preserved. The descending fireball was observed from as far away as 150 miles, and it created a…