Today I learned on Nostr: TIL in 1902, one day after being jailed for a fight, a man named Ludger Sylbaris ...

TIL in 1902, one day after being jailed for a fight, a man named Ludger Sylbaris survived for four days while the pyroclastic flow from Mt. Pelée killed 30,000. His jail cell was a former ammunition storehouse with thick walls and no windows apart from one ventilation shaft.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludger_Sylbaris
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