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Some WW2 steam powered battleships were "turbo charged" by pressurising the boiler rooms and everyone working in them [Chris Barrie's Massive Engines]

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The rat bomb, was a weapon developed by the British S.O.E in WW2 for use against Germany. Rat carcasses were filled with plastic explosives, and were to be distributed near boiler rooms, where it was expected they would be disposed of by burning, with the rat causing a boiler explosion.

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1. WW2 'Rat Bombs'. Explosives hidden inside dead rats. When dead rat discovered in boiler room of a locomotive, factory or power station it would be disposed of by shovelling it into furnace triggering a devastating boiler explosion.

2. As the Japanese battleship Yamato was sinking, the damage control team counter-flooded both starboard engine and boiler rooms in an attempt to keep the ship afloat. While successful, the maneuver also drowned several hundred crewmen, who were never given a warning to leave.

3. Admiral Gorshkov, a Russian Naval Carrier, has been what sailors call an “unlucky ship”.It faced software bugs and was decommissioned in 1995 following boiler room explosion killing six men. Then India bought it at $2.35 billion and named it INS Vikramaditya(meaning "Brave as the Sun").

4. During the Soviet period, and as part of their anti-religion campaign, closed churches were used for other purposes; for instance, Feodorovskaya Church was converted into a factory dormitory, the Gate Church was made up into a museum office space, and the Dukhovskaya Church became a boiler room.

5. The movie the boiler room starring vin diesel was inspired by the same person who was the inspiration for the wolf of wall street.

6. All of the boiler room footage in the film A Nightmare on Elm Street was shot in the basement of the Lincoln Heights Jail, which was condemned shortly after production wrapped, due to the high levels of asbestos.