<p>It sounds like releasing 1.5 million balloons to raise money would be a good idea, but in 1986, the people of Cleveland, Ohio learned that it is not.</p>
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<h4>Links and Show Notes:</h4>  <h5><a rel='payment' href='https://relayfm.memberful.com/checkout?plan=13662'>Support Ungeniused with a Relay FM Membership</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balloonfest_%2786" target="_blank">Balloonfest '86 - Wikipedia</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Square,_Cleveland" target="_blank">Public Square, Cleveland - Wikipedia</a></h5> <h5><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0CT8zrw6lw" target="_blank">The Doomed Cleveland Balloonfest of '86 - YouTube</a></h5><p>(Please, please watch this.)</p>
 <h5><a href="https://kottke.org/18/06/the-comic-tragedy-of-balloonfest-86" target="_blank">The comic tragedy of Balloonfest ‘86 - Kottke.org</a></h5>

85: World's Fairs

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