Disaster Facts Generator

• [Disaster fact 1]  In 1958, an experienced lab technician named Cecil Kelley accidentally created a burst of nuclear fission and exposed himself to radiation levels 7 times above lethal limits in under a second, at a laboratory in Los Alamos. He was transported to a hospital, but died 35 hours after the accident.

  Death, Disaster source

• [Disaster fact 2]  Phenylephrine, the nasal decongestant that replaced pseudoephedrine in OTC cold medicine, was shown to be ineffective vs placebo at up to 4 times the recommended dose and was not well tolerated starting at 4 times the recommended dose.

  Disaster, Transport, Science source

• [Disaster fact 3]  The Chicxulub Impact, the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, created a mega-tsunami that was over 330 feet tall. If the impact had struck the deep ocean rather than the shallow seas, the wave would have peaked at 2.9 miles.

  Disaster, World source

• [Disaster fact 4]  The most destructive bombing event of WWII was neither Hiroshima nor Nagasaki. It was Operation Meetinghouse, the American firebombing of Tokyo.

  Disaster, People, Places, War, Weapons source

• [Disaster fact 5]  A Paris shooting survivor (Lilian Lepere) sued a TV station for giving away his location during the shooting

  Disaster, Media, People source

• [Disaster fact 6]  In 1989, a train disaster in Russia killed 575 people all because of a gas leak. Estimates of the size of the explosion have ranged from 250–300 tons of TNT equivalent to up to 10,000 tons of TNT equivalent. Without anyone knowing, a faulty gas pipeline 3,000 feet from the line had leaked natural gas liquids and weather conditions allowed the gas to accumulate across the lowlands, creating a flammable cloud.

  Disaster, Transport source

• [Disaster fact 7]  A survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bomb created a manga series based on his childhood war experiences

  Comics, Disaster, People, War source

• [Disaster fact 8]  There is only 1 reported death from radiation at Fukushima, but over 1600 reported deaths from "evacuation stress" such as suicide and health access.

  Death, Disaster source

• [Disaster fact 9]  As of 2011, wild pigs were one of the most destructive animals in America causing more than $400 million in damages a year in Texas alone. They can dig 3-feet deep destroying crops and even feast on lambs, calves, sea turtle eggs, and everything in between.

  Animals, Disaster source

• [Disaster fact 10]  This is a Marten, and it was responsible for over 64 Million Euros worth of car damage in Germany in 2014. It may be cute, but it loves chewing your car’s cables. In Germany, they are called “Marder.”

  Animals, Disaster source

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