Dive Into 95 Mind-Blowing Facts That Will Completely Change How You See the World!
TIL of “The Final Experiment” – a 2024 Antarctica expedition where flat Earth YouTubers saw the 24 hour sun, which could not be explained by non-spherical models. This prompted at least one YouTuber to publicly admit they were wrong, and leave the flat Earth community.
553l8008:
The plane ride at 30,000ft and curvature of the earth wasn’t enough.
TIL that in 2023, a kidnapper tried to abduct an 8 year old girl, but her 13 year old brother saved her by shooting the kidnapper with his slingshot until he ran off. A 17 year old was later arrested with wounds to his head and chest.
Niobium_Sage:
Dude, slingshots are legit. One with good bullets (marbles or such) can be a more effective deterrent than a BB gun if we’re talking children’s weapons. I’d much rather be shot with a BB gun than a slingshot at least.
TIL the TV show Scrubs was filmed in the North Hollywood Medical Center, using the entire decommissioned hospital. All of the writers also worked inside it, and it had an editing suite and a sound-studio for post-production. And instead of trailers for the cast, they were given old hospital rooms.
LookAtThatBacon (OP):
And according to the wiki page for the hospital building itself, sometimes people would mistake it for an active hospital.
TIL Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry was asked to write a series called Riverboat, set in 1860s Mississippi. When he discovered that the producers wanted no black people on the show, he argued so much with them that he lost the job.
BanjoTCat:
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