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On October 23rd, 2004, a Shinkansen train derailed due to a Magnitude 6.6 earthquake near Urasa and Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture. Despite the high speed 200km/h there were no injuries or fatalities
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2024/07/25
06:39 UTC
06:39 UTC
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today 03/13/24 - Japan rocket explodes at launch
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2024/03/13
09:18 UTC
09:18 UTC
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Argentina - 02/10/24 - A drug smuggler (police officer) tried to smuggle a load of 20 kg of cocaine hidden in the CNG tank of her car, which exploded when recharging it at a gas station
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2024/02/20
21:42 UTC
21:42 UTC
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Truck driver successfully drives burning truck to the fire station
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2024/01/24
22:52 UTC
22:52 UTC
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When the material of a plane’s nose allows for large plastic deformation and no visible cracks, leading to a safe landing. Shame about the goose though.
27 Comments
2023/11/16
11:44 UTC
11:44 UTC
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RIM-2 Terrier SAM shoots down a F6F drone
4 Comments
2023/04/22
20:01 UTC
20:01 UTC
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The intentional sinking of the target ship SMS Ostfreisland, an ex-German imperial navy battleship from World War One
3 Comments
2023/03/12
23:11 UTC
23:11 UTC
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Falcon Heavy Boosters Landing for the USSF-44 Launch
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2022/11/01
14:04 UTC
14:04 UTC
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DeLorean Crash Tests in (1980)
21 Comments
2022/08/30
02:51 UTC
02:51 UTC
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The succesful test of the Launch Abort System on the Artemis program's Orion capsule in 2019, which intentionally aborted the mission during the flight to test the spacecrafts emergency escape system
5 Comments
2022/08/28
02:48 UTC
02:48 UTC
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Allied bomber aircraft successfully crash lands on its belly after its landing gear was shot off by Japanese flak in (1942)
3 Comments
2022/08/14
16:11 UTC
16:11 UTC
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Operation Smash Hit 1984 - Deliberately crashing a train into a nuclear flask at 100mph.
12 Comments
2022/07/27
12:05 UTC
12:05 UTC
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Massive amount of fireworks covered in naphtha ether and ignited with sparklers. Spaghetti pots of Roman candles and over 10,000 “Saturn Missiles” amongst the pile.
9 Comments
2022/03/18
14:51 UTC
14:51 UTC
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Testing a newly-installed electric steelmaking furnace. Note: sound may or may not work automatically, depending on how you access Reddit.
48 Comments
2021/08/28
11:31 UTC
11:31 UTC
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Martin Tower Implosion - Bethlehem, PA, USA May 19 2019. 21 stories gone in less than 21 seconds.
72 Comments
2021/08/14
18:55 UTC
18:55 UTC
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On vaccine mixing
18 Comments
2021/08/13
05:28 UTC
05:28 UTC
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Driver Survives Horrific accident at 24h of Spa
17 Comments
2021/08/01
18:17 UTC
18:17 UTC
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