# Have you ever heard of the Black Tom Explosion, and if so, when was the first time you ever heard of it? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [May 7, 2021, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-the-black-tom-explosion-and-if-so-when-was-the-first-time-you-ever-heard-of-it/941579 "2021-05-07T06:08:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 47
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2021, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-the-black-tom-explosion-and-if-so-when-was-the-first-time-you-ever-heard-of-it/941579/47 "2021-05-08T14:50:33Z")
OK, I get it now. This thread is like Unbreakable, except instead of causing mass casualty events find a super hero, something is creating threads to find the one person who is aware of the changes. That person is me. I’ve never heard of the Black Tom explosion, and I like reading about “large non-nuclear explosions”. You’d think a person like me would have heard of one that damaged the SoL. I hope the Texas City explosion still happened in the current reality, because that’s fascinating. I also remember Stouffer’s Stovetop stuffing. And Burgess Meredith saying “[It doesn’t DO anything. That’s the beauty of it!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-mind-boggling-movie-quote/304608)” The [Change Winds](http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?57327) blew my reality away. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-heard-of-the-black-tom-explosion-and-if-so-when-was-the-first-time-you-ever-heard-of-it/941579)._