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Today in Strangeness: November 23, 2024
Over 100 ducks were knocked out of the sky during a storm over Stuttgart, Arkansas on this day in 1973. Some ducks were jarred by irregularly-shaped hail, others were frozen, picked up by a tornado, coated in ice high above the clouds, and then dropped.


Today in Strangeness:
One evening on November 22, 1987, the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident took place. An intruder wearing a Max Headroom mask successfully interrupted the signal of two Chicago TV stations with their video broadcast featuring various antics.


Today in Strangeness:
On November 20, 1820, an 80 ft. sperm whale attacked the Essex, an American whaling ship, 2,000 miles off the coast of South America. The 80-ton whale's impact put a hole in the Essex causing the ship to capsize, though the crew managed to escape to another vessel. Herman Melville's classic 1851 novel, Moby Dick, was inspired by this famous maritime disaster.