All around us are lessons in how far south things can go when people become more interested

in sensationalism than in reality.

And a hundred years ago, we had a very small scale, but extremely poignant example of this.

Desperate for a sensational attraction, a man named Floyd Collins risked his life to

satiate the public's mad desire for the biggest, best, and newest thing.

It did not work out well.

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Stories smallest underground war.

To those of a skeptical bent, it comes as no great surprise that rival companies would

cross the line into sensationalized falsehoods when it's time to write a sales pitch.

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