Mildly interesting
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Hong Kong 1920 
  Hong Kong 2020 
  
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 The only (or one of the only) ground photographs of the Hiroshima bomb explosion. 
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 The only (or one of the only) ground photographs of the Hiroshima bomb explosion. @taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting: The only (or one of the only) ground photographs of the Hiroshima bomb explosion. I assume the, lucky, photographer was probably looking away from the explosion when the flash occurred. It seems like most people in that area would be, at least temporarily, blinded. 
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@taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting: The only (or one of the only) ground photographs of the Hiroshima bomb explosion. I assume the, lucky, photographer was probably looking away from the explosion when the flash occurred. It seems like most people in that area would be, at least temporarily, blinded. @Copper said in Mildly interesting: @taiwan_girl said in Mildly interesting: The only (or one of the only) ground photographs of the Hiroshima bomb explosion. I assume the, lucky, photographer was probably looking away from the explosion when the flash occurred. It seems like most people in that area would be, at least temporarily, blinded. If i remember the story correctly, the photo (or the negative) was found in a school from where the photo was taken. Dont know what happened to the photographer. 
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I want to be on the committee that decides these words of venery. My first nomination would be “a haggard of milfs”. @jon-nyc said in Mildly interesting: My first nomination would be “a haggard of milfs”. (that almost deserves its own thread) My nomination for that would be "sere." It's obscure enough of a word to make people take pause and think..."What?" 
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 Details from La Wik: Spearfish holds the world record for the fastest recorded temperature change. On January 22, 1943, at about 7:30 a.m. MST, the temperature in Spearfish was −4 °F (−20 °C). The Chinook wind picked up speed rapidly, and two minutes later (7:32 a.m.) the temperature was +45 °F (7 °C). The 49 °F or 27 °C rise in two minutes set a world record that still holds. By 9:00 a.m., the temperature had risen to 54 °F (12 °C). Suddenly, the Chinook died down and the temperature tumbled back to −4 °F or −20 °C. The 58 °F or 32.2 °C drop took only 27 minutes.[18][19][20] The sudden change in temperatures caused glass windows to crack and windshields to instantly frost over.[21][20] 
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Related to the above, I read that a mountain in NH just set the record for the coldest windchill. -106 F. -45 F temperature with 97 mph wind. :eek 
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