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• [Disaster fact 1]  In 2009, a smoldering cigarette caused fire to break out aboard USS George Washington. The fire raged on for 11 hours, causing $70 million worth of damage, yet it didn’t disable the ship.

  Disaster, Military, Transport source

• [Disaster fact 2]  In 1945, the Royal Air Force accidentally sunk a ship full of Holocaust victims. The ship had previously been used in the Nazi Propaganda film “Titanic”. More people died on that ship than on the actual Titanic.

  Death, Disaster source

• [Disaster fact 3]  The heat from the Vesuvius eruption was so intense, the skulls of those caught in it literally exploded by the pressure of vaporizing brain tissue and boiling blood.

  Death, Disaster source

• [Disaster fact 4]  During Hiroshima, the Gingko trees that were growing 1 to 2 km from the explosion of the atomic bomb survived the blast and quickly became healthy again. Those trees were some of the few living things that survived and are still alive today.

  Disaster, Plants source

• [Disaster fact 5]  The infamous Great Seattle Fire of 1889 also killed 1 million rats, which completely eliminated the town’s major rodent problem.

  Disaster, Places source

• [Disaster fact 6]  After a British Airways 747 had all 4 engines disabled, the pilot announced it by saying, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. We have a small problem. All four engines have stopped. We are doing our damnedest to get them going again. I trust you are not in too much distress.".

  Disaster, Transport source

• [Disaster fact 7]  On 9/11, four people (Brian Clark one of the survivor) in the South Tower of the World Trade Center managed to escape from a floor above the plane's impact.

  Disaster, People source

• [Disaster fact 8]  The worst elevator disaster in history happened on September 11, 2001 in NYC. Each tower had 99 elevators that either dropped on impact or were still trapped when the building collapsed, claiming 200 of the 2,977 lives lost that day.

  Death, Disaster source

• [Disaster fact 9]  Sneha Anne Philip is officially considered to be one of the victims of 9/11. Being a doctor who lived nearby, it's believed that she died trying to help the injured at Ground Zero. There's just one problem: no one saw her there or indeed, anywhere at all. She went missing on 9/10.

  Disaster, Mystery, People source

• [Disaster fact 10]  In 2003, the smoke from large bushfires in Canberra, Australia formed a Cumulonimbus Flammagenitus. Essentially the fire created its own supercell storm, complete with lighting and forming an F3-rated fire tornado. The tornado and the associated fire killed 4 people and injured 492 others.

  Countries, Disaster source

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