That a brinicle, also known as the icicle of death, is a downward growing tube of ice which spreads along the sea floor freezing anything in its path. Thanks to John Eggleston for sharing this fact.
That in 2003 more than 2.5 million damaged or discontinued Mills & Boon novels were acquired by the builders of the M6 toll road in the UK. They were pulped and poured on to the road surface as a strengthening and soundproofing layer before the asphalt was laid. Drivers on the road today will be unaware that they are driving over 45,000 titles of 'pulped fiction' per mile.
That the very luxurious and state of the art for its day French passenger liner S.S. Normandie was seized by US authorities during World War II and, after being renamed the USS Lafayette, began being converted into a troopship in New York. During this process several simple fire prevention precautions were ignored and the ship caught fire and capsized at pier 88. The restoration proved to be too costly so it was scrapped.
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Catastrophe under the sea... that a death blow.