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56 years ago today, three days after a sperm whale washed ashore in the city of Florence, Oregon, the state's Department of Transportation attempted to remove it using a half ton (450 kg) of dynamite (en.wikipedia.org)
 

Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered! on youtube, from local television station KATU

The other thing that Florence, Oregon is famous for is accidentally banning sex, seven years after the exploding whale incident.

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56 years ago today, three days after a sperm whale washed ashore in the city of Florence, Oregon, the state's Department of Transportation attempted to remove it using a half ton (450 kg) of dynamite (en.wikipedia.org)
 

Exploding Whale 50th Anniversary, Remastered! on youtube, from local television station KATU

The other thing that Florence, Oregon is famous for is accidentally banning sex, seven years after the exploding whale incident.

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24 years ago today, Grigori Perelman posted the first of three papers outlining a solution of the Poincaré conjecture. Today it remains the only Millennium Prize Problem with a verified solution. (en.wikipedia.org)
 

On August 22, 2006, the ICM awarded Perelman the Fields Medal for his work on the Ricci flow, but Perelman refused the medal.

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The Clay Mathematics Institute, having included the Poincaré conjecture in their well-known Millennium Prize Problem list, offered Perelman their prize of US$1 million in 2010 for the conjecture's resolution. He declined the award, saying that Hamilton's contribution had been equal to his own

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211159

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Hamilton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_flow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems

Note: the possible second Millennium Prize Problem solution (Navier–Stokes, possibly solved recently) has still not yet been verified by CMI.

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24 years ago today, Grigori Perelman posted the first of three papers outlining a solution of the Poincaré conjecture. Today it remains the only Millennium Prize Problem with a verified solution. (en.wikipedia.org)
 

On August 22, 2006, the ICM awarded Perelman the Fields Medal for his work on the Ricci flow, but Perelman refused the medal.

[...]

The Clay Mathematics Institute, having included the Poincaré conjecture in their well-known Millennium Prize Problem list, offered Perelman their prize of US$1 million in 2010 for the conjecture's resolution. He declined the award, saying that Hamilton's contribution had been equal to his own

https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0211159

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Perelman

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_S._Hamilton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricci_flow

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millennium_Prize_Problems

Note: the possible second Millennium Prize Problem solution (Navier–Stokes, possibly solved recently) has still not yet been verified by CMI.

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100 years ago today, the United States Numbered Highway System was approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials (en.wikipedia.org)
 

From Names to Numbers: The Origins of the U.S. Numbered Highway System by Richard F. Weingroff, Information Liaison Specialist, Federal Highway Administration

Map of the final U.S. Highway system as approved November 11, 1926 (8,972 × 5,851 pixels, file size: 18.59 MB)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_State_Highway_and_Transportation_Officials

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100 years ago today, the United States Numbered Highway System was approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials (en.wikipedia.org)
 

From Names to Numbers: The Origins of the U.S. Numbered Highway System by Richard F. Weingroff, Information Liaison Specialist, Federal Highway Administration

Map of the final U.S. Highway system as approved November 11, 1926 (8,972 × 5,851 pixels, file size: 18.59 MB)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Association_of_State_Highway_and_Transportation_Officials

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