A Man Walked into a Bar, Had a Drink... and It Blew His Body to Pieces

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Over a hundred years ago, a farmhand called Peter Eberhart froze to death along the way home. The mysterious circumstances surrounding his death, and the way his body took down a shed with a fiery explosion was a chain of coincidences— and chemical reactions. Let’s get into it.

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