Blog Heap of Links for the day 12 November 2016

… On this day in 1970 the Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with dynamite. But the people planting dynamite did not know a whole lot about dynamite. They planted a half-ton of dynamite on the whale. Result. . .whale blubber everywhere and a very large chunk of whale still left. A laughing actor could be heard in the background; "you think you used enough dynamite there Butch?"