#GetFact'd: Gigantic sinkhole once opened up the Oosthuizen family home
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In 2013 in Florida, a sinkhole unexpectedly opened up beneath a sleeping man’s bedroom and swallowed him whole. He is presumed dead. Last week, almost 60 years ago, during the night of 3rd of August 1964, a gigantic sinkhole opened up beneath the home of the Oosthuizen family in the mining town of Carletonville.
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The hole swallowed up not only the Oosthuizen family and their three children, their live-in domestic worker, but nothing was ever again seen of a single brick of the house nor their motor car which ended up in a hole of unknown depth.
The hole was massive, measuring about 100 meters across. The top of the first rubble down the pit was at least 100 meters below. After some probing to recover the bodies, rescuers gave up the effort.
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The verb “to duck” existed before the name of the animal. Originally called an “ended” in Old English, the waterfowl was later referred to as a “duck” (or “ducker”) because of how it would duck underwater for food.
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