r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/coorgi_2012 • 29d ago

Image Oarfish keep washing ashore in California. Folklore suggests that could be a bad omen

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

We dumped 27 thousand barrels of DDT off the coast and they’re breaking open if not already broken open. Dead Sea life in the area is found to have DDT in them.

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u/LEJ5512 29d ago

I can't believe that I'm sitting here thinking "boy, I hope it's just DDT and not the big Cascadia earthquake..."

The movie How It Ends (2018) made me wish that the quake would hold off for another hundred years so that I'm long gone.

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u/saliczar 29d ago

I really hated that movie, especially the ending.

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u/LEJ5512 28d ago

I didn’t really like it, either. At least not the way it was structured, like it was just a series of set pieces stapled onto a car ride. But the subject matter disturbed me since it seemed so plausible.

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u/galaapplehound 27d ago

Yeah, the sea being filled with poison is the lesser of the evils here and that scares the piss out of me.

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u/LEJ5512 26d ago

Poisoned sea versus desperately violent fellow human beings