Notice how it's not "The" big bang,this bang was brought about by a combination of the Oregon Highway Dept. and the Navy in 1970. A 45 foot sperm whale had washed up on the beach in Florence,OR and it was wrongly decided that the best course of action was to use a half a ton of explosives to blow it up allowing other creatures to clean up the smaller pieces. It didn't work in a most spectacular way and managed to coat everyone and everything in the vicinity with whale blubber and other decaying parts,but I digress. In honor of the event a new state park as been named "Exploding Whale Memorial Park". Out of 124 suggested names submitted by the community "Exploding Whale" won by a landslide...or maybe that should be a blubber slide?
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