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TIL shortly after the rock band Great White began performing in 2003 at The Station in Rhode Island, their tour manager set off pyrotechnics whose sparks ignited flammable acoustic foam. Within six minutes of the ignition, the entire building was engulfed in flames—100 attendees died.

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