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athousanderrors ([personal profile] athousanderrors) wrote2017-03-30 07:02 pm

lauralot89: fun fact: the Environmental Protection Agency was created after Cuyahoga River caught...

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lauralot89:

fun fact: the Environmental Protection Agency was created after Cuyahoga River caught fire for the thirteenth time

not because a river caught fire

because it caught fire for the THIRTEENTH TIME and caused $50,000 in damages

in 1969 Time reported that the river “oozes rather than flows” and said that a person “does not drown but decays” in the water

oh look it’s the river Ankh