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Looking for Gas Leak with Open Flame… Anyone Else See a Problem with This?

By Commonplace Fun Facts on February 21, 2015 • ( 3 Comments )

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The largest cylindrical gas container in the world in 1927 was in the heart of the industrial center of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. On the morning of November 14, 1927, it developed a leak, so […]

This Couldn’t Have Been Demonstrated on the Ground Floor?

By Commonplace Fun Facts on November 21, 2014 • ( 2 Comments )

Toronto attorney Garry Hoy (1955 – 1993) fell to his death after he threw himself through the glass wall on the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Centre in order to prove the […]