stackyFACTSIn the 1970s, residents of Love Canal, New York, noticed an alarming trend of severe birth defects, high asthma rates, and highly suspicious black sludge oozing into their basements.
In the 1970s, residents of Love Canal, New York, noticed an alarming trend of severe birth defects, high asthma rates, and highly suspicious black sludge oozing into their basements. Turns out, the local school and surrounding neighborhood were built directly on top of 21,000 tons of carelessly buried toxic waste, proving once and for all that suspiciously cheap real estate always comes with a literal price on your DNA.
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