Damn Interesting, The Windscale Disaster
damninteresting.com — In October 1957, after several years of successful operation, the workers at Windscale noticed some curious readings from their temperature monitoring equipment as they carried out standard maintenance. The reactor temperature was slowly rising during a time that they expected it to be falling. The remote detection equipment seemed to be malfunctio (Submitted by wjappe) More...
The Wrath of the Killdozer
damninteresting.com — Even as he was forced to give up his legal fight and sell his land, he hatched one last plan to secretly retool his muffler shop to serve a single malevolent purpose: to construct a machine that would allow him to exact his revenge upon those who had wronged him. (Submitted by redsfaithful) More...
Steely-Eyed Hydronauts of the Marian
damninteresting.com — On 21 December 1872, the British naval corvette HMS Challenger sailed from Portsmouth, England on an historic endeavor. Although the sophisticated steam-assisted sailing vessel had been originally constructed as a combat ship, her instruments of war had been recently removed to make room for laboratories, dredging equipment, and measuring apparatus (Submitted by bamafun) More...
Youngest Mother At the Age of 5 years
damninteresting.com — Born in Peru in 1933, Lina was brought to the local hospital by her parents because of an increasingly enlarged belly, which they first thought of a tumor. After a series of tests however, the doctors confirmed that she was seven months pregnant. A month later Lina gave birth to a baby boy whom she named Gerardo, after her doctor. (Submitted by cpras3) More...
Doctor Bass and the Body Farm
damninteresting.com — Under normal circumstances, one would expect a wandering throng of students to demonstrate animated displeasure upon encountering a human corpse in the woods. But to the forensic anthropology students from the University of Tennessee, Dr. Bass' Body Farm serves a higher purpose -- to educate them in the body language of the deceased. (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More...
In Soviet Russia, Lake Contaminates You
damninteresting.com — In a rush to close the gap in weapons technology, the USSR commissioned a sprawling plutonium-production complex in the southern Ural mountains. The clandestine military-industrial community would come to be known as Chelyabinsk-40. The effects to the surrounding environment would prove to be catastrophic... (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More...
The Grand Plan to Dam the Mediterranean
damninteresting.com — The construction of the Gibraltar dam would have required more concrete than the whole world's production of the time. Some critics maintained that such a change in the world's waterway would affect climate in unpredictable ways. This did not deter an architect named Herman Sörgel... (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More...
Nikola Tesla's Tower of Power
damninteresting.com — In 1905, a team of construction workers in the small village of Shoreham, New York labored to erect a truly extraordinary structure. Atop his tower was perched a fifty-five ton dome of conductive metals, and beneath it stretched an iron root system that penetrated more than 300 feet into the Earth's crust... (Submitted by MrBabyMan) More...
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