stackyFACTSIn 1986, a charity event in Cleveland triumphantly released over a million helium balloons at once, inadvertently shutting down the entire city. The massive colorful cloud unexpectedly grounded airport flights, caused massive traffic crashes, and fatally interrupted an ongoing coast guard search mission.
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