[Disaster fact 1] 30 years ago, you had 15-17 minutes to escape a house fire. Nowadays you only have 3-5 minutes (due to more plastics and petroleum-based products in the house as well as more open floor plans, bigger rooms, and higher ceilings).
[Disaster fact 2] Leicester Hemingway, Ernest Hemingway's younger brother, founded a micro-nation off the coast of Jamaica in 1964 and called it New Atlantis. The micronation was destroyed by a tropical storm in 1966 and ransacked by fishermen.
[Disaster fact 3] Charcoal beetles fly into still-burning forest fires to mate and lay eggs because competition and predators will be low. They sense distant fires using infrared armpit sensors.
[Disaster fact 4] In June 2008, a tornado hit Kansas State University's campus destroying only one building, their Wind Erosion Lab.
[Disaster fact 5] Rick Rescorla, the director of security at Morgan Stanley, saved all but 6 of his 2700 employees during the 9/11 attacks by directing people down the stairs using a bullhorn and encouraging them by singing Cornish songs.
[Disaster fact 6] Studies by the IIHS and Federal Highway Administration have shown that roundabouts typically achieve a 37% reduction in overall collisions, a 75% reduction in injury collisions and a 90 percent reduction in fatality collisions.
[Disaster fact 7] In December 2014 an underwater volcano erupted leading to the creation of a new island. Typically these types of islands don't survive more than a few months, but this one has persisted and is now connected to an older neighboring island.
[Disaster fact 8] The first battle of World War 1 consisted of a British ship firing a single shot at a German ship on Lake Nyasa (now Lake Malawi) in Africa, and taking the captain "prisoner." The two captains had been drinking buddies for years, and weren't about to let the war ruin it.
[Disaster fact 9] On May 2, 1845, a bridge in Great Yarmouth, England, collapsed when thousands gathered on it to watch a clown travel down the river in a tub pulled by geese. ‘400 people went into the river, 79 died, 59 of which were children.’
[Disaster fact 10] Firefighters that responded to 2019’s fire at Notre Dame knew which works of art to rescue and in which order following a protocol developed exactly for such kind of a disaster.
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