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Seven Times Lightning Chose Him—And He Lived to Tell About It
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Seven Times Lightning Chose Him—And He Lived to Tell About It

Roy Sullivan survived being struck by lightning seven times over 35 years—a statistical impossibility that made him either the unluckiest or luckiest man in American history. His story challenges everything we think we know about survival and odds.

January 15, 1919: The Day a Boston Neighborhood Drowned in Molasses
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January 15, 1919: The Day a Boston Neighborhood Drowned in Molasses

On a winter afternoon in Boston, a 50-foot storage tank ruptured and unleashed 2.3 million gallons of molasses through the streets at 35 mph, killing 21 people and injuring 150 more. The disaster that sounds like a dark joke was devastatingly real.