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Daily Archives: December 10, 2021

An Apocalypse That Almost Happened

Idaho's Mammoth CaveBy kafkatieDecember 10, 2021

A stark monument of the past that still waits in pitch-black silence. When Richard Olsen homesteaded Idaho’s Mammoth Cave in 1954, he thought it would be a great place to grow and store mushrooms. At the time, however, the Soviet Union and their allies were locked in a tense, long conflict known as the Cold…

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