Comments on: Explosions heard ’round the world http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9525 Feel Smart Again Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:23:33 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: gibson8tor http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9525/comment-page-1#comment-35277 gibson8tor Fri, 09 Nov 2007 21:05:31 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9525#comment-35277 In December of 1917, a ship carrying explosives caught fire and exploded in Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia. It was the largest man-made explosion of the pre-nuclear age. It killed almost 2,000 people and left another 6,000 homeless. Massachusetts provided so much aid that to this day the city of Halifax gives the city of Boston a huge Christmas tree as a "thank you." In December of 1917, a ship carrying explosives caught fire and exploded in Halifax Harbor in Nova Scotia. It was the largest man-made explosion of the pre-nuclear age. It killed almost 2,000 people and left another 6,000 homeless. Massachusetts provided so much aid that to this day the city of Halifax gives the city of Boston a huge Christmas tree as a “thank you.”

]]> By: Dusty http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9525/comment-page-1#comment-35233 Dusty Fri, 09 Nov 2007 18:31:41 +0000 http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/9525#comment-35233 Anyone ever seen the footage of the plant in the middle of the desert that exploded? I think they were making explosives there. Also, did anyone see the last Mythbusters with the water heater? I laughed like a little kid when the last heater shot through the roof. Those guys have the best jobs in the world. Anyone ever seen the footage of the plant in the middle of the desert that exploded? I think they were making explosives there.

Also, did anyone see the last Mythbusters with the water heater? I laughed like a little kid when the last heater shot through the roof. Those guys have the best jobs in the world.

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