In 1970, Oregon highway crews packed half a ton of dynamite under a dead whale on a Florence beach, expecting the blast to send the pieces out to sea — falling blubber crushed a car a quarter mile away, and in 2020 the town officially named the site Explo - Space Daily
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When a half-ton of dynamite met a rotting eight-ton whale, Oregon learned an unforgettable lesson about the limits of engineering solutions.