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  "textContent": "Mrs. Crouch, a farmer's wife in Bath County, Kentucky, was stirring a kettle of soap on her porch around 11 a.m. on March 3, 1876 when chunks of fresh meat began dropping out of a cloudless sky. By her own account, quoted in Wikipedia's writeup of the Kentucky meat shower, the sky was simply snowing meat, and each piece hit the ground with a sharp snap. — Read the rest \n\nThe post Vulture vomit is the leading theory for Kentucky's 1876 meat shower appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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