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Exploding Whale Memorial Park

Florence, OR

This riverside park's name commemorates Florence's infamous 1970 attempt to dispose of a beached sperm whale with dynamite, one of Oregon's best-known bizarre news events.

Filed under weird history: real events too strange to have made the textbook.

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Source: ci.florence.or.us/parks/exploding-whale-memorial-park

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