While still alive, the whale that had been named Timmy stranded off Poel. Later it washed up dead off Denmark.
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The exploding whale incident

In an attempt to solve a “whale-sized” problem, Oregon officials blew up a beached whale with dynamite. What followed was chaos, carnage, and airborne blubber ...
Home to the Oregon coast’s infamous exploding whale incident, Florence has a lot more going for it than its most notorious ...