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Doomsday is a history lesson that disguises itself as a horror story. Come explore bizarre disasters from around the world at https://t.co/hzcjaQQDG8



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In 1980, a famous Texas oil company rig in Louisiana's Lake Peigneur accidentally drilled into a salt mine, causing a massive whirlpool that drained the lake, sucked down barges and the rig, reversed a canal's flow, and created a huge waterfall, a disaster that transformed the lake into a saltwater body but miraculously resulted in no human deaths. This video shows the dramatic events of the 1980 drilling disaster:













