2 Comments TIL about Crisis Apparition. A term used to explain when someone is contacted by a person they were close too, usually after death. During the after math of 9/11 many people claim to have been contacted by loved ones that died that day. by whatilearned June 25, 2022, 2:06 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
3 Comments TIL in 2014 a group of civilian ‘technoarchaeologists’ operating from a former McDonald’s contacted an abandoned 35 year old NASA solar satellite and took control of it, before a lack of fuel pressure derailed their plan to return the space probe to its original parking space at Lagrange point L1. by whatilearned February 2, 2022, 7:58 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
4 Comments TIL about the Windows XP wallpaper. The image is called “Bliss” and it’s a supposedly unedited image of a hill found on the Los Carneros American Viticultural Area. The photographer, Charles O’Rear, says he took it on his way to visit his girlfriend. Eventually in 2000, he was contacted by Microsoft by whatilearned January 19, 2022, 2:43 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
13 Comments Did other people in Europe know the Norse had contacted the indigenous people of Canada and Greenland? by HistoryBuff September 11, 2021, 10:17 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
8 Comments What if earth is like one of those un contacted tribes in south América, like the whole galaxy knows we’re here but they’ve agreed not to tell us until we figure it out for ourselves? by QuestionGuy September 4, 2021, 5:57 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
3 Comments TIL a Belgian businessman was instrumental to the Manhattan Project’s success. Realizing uranium’s importance, he shipped 1,200 tons of it to Staten Island. When Lieutenant Colonel Nichols contacted him, he simply responded: “You can have the ore now. It is in New York. I was waiting for your visit” by whatilearned August 18, 2021, 11:08 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments TIL that the death of Layne Staley, singer of Alice In Chains, was discovered when his accountants noticed that no money has been withdrawn in two weeks. They informed his former manager who then contacted his mother who then called 911 by whatilearned August 14, 2021, 4:19 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
5 Comments TIL that Jack White contacted Lego asking if they could provide a small set of him and Meg with each record of “Fell in Love with a Girl”, but they refused. Once the video became a hit, Lego changed their minds, but this time Jack refused the deal. by whatilearned July 16, 2021, 9:03 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
2 Comments TIL a British man was surprised at being urgently contacted by the NHS about his health, when they calculated his BMI as being 28,000. They’d written his 6’2″ height as being 6.2cm tall by whatilearned July 11, 2021, 4:09 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
6 Comments TIL in 1991, actor Charlie Sheen watched the 1985 film Flower of Flesh and Blood and became convinced he was watching actual homicides and contacted the FBI. The Bureau initiated an investigation but closed it after the producers showed how they did it with special effects. by whatilearned June 30, 2021, 4:30 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
36 Comments Aliens have contacted humans and require one human to represent Earth, who do they send? by QuestionGuy June 23, 2021, 8:54 pm 12 Points Upvote Downvote
3 Comments TIL that, on the same day that James Van Allen announced his discovery of the radiation belts that now bear his name, the US military contacted him to inquire about firing nukes into them. by whatilearned May 27, 2021, 6:05 am 12 Points Upvote Downvote
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