Seemingly Innocuous Pictures With Surprising Back Stories
Featured 02/21/2019
Presumably boring pictures with strong origin stories. Some pretty crazy stuff in here that will interest you. Every picture is worth a thousand words but these pictures are worth 10 times that. You'll find some pretty tasty morsels of info hiding in these pics that you may not see on your first viewing.
1. Nice couple having a fun day at the beach? Unfortunately, this was photographed after these two lost their 19 month old baby to the sea. It was later found dead a mile offshore.
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2. Random photo of a dock with a ship? Actually, this ship is the USS grandcamp in 1947, when it caught fire in the hold, with 2300 tons (not lbs) of ammonium nitrate. This fire would cause the largest non-nuclear bast in human history. Mushroom cloud was 2000 feet tall, pedestrians would be knocked over by the blast form 10 miles away, buildings flattened, windows shattered. The molten steel shrapnel would fall from the sky at hypersonic speeds, causing many more secondary fires Miraculously, one of the people in this photo (all are volunteer firefighters) would survive the blast. 468 people were killed in the explosion.
3. Dude just carrying his lunchbox with him? Actually, that man is holding the nuclear core to fat man, the nuclear bomb that would detonate over Nagasaki.
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