ATLtinyrick t1_ixb739e wrote on November 22, 2022 at 3:14 AM

Reply to comment by sunnie_day in TIL of Friendly Floatees, an armada of 28,000 rubber ducks that were accidentally spilled into the Pacific Ocean in 1992 by a container ship. Researchers then used them to track ocean currents until 2007. by oscillathor

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ATLtinyrick t1_ixb6zok wrote on November 22, 2022 at 3:14 AM

Reply to comment by striped_frog in TIL of Friendly Floatees, an armada of 28,000 rubber ducks that were accidentally spilled into the Pacific Ocean in 1992 by a container ship. Researchers then used them to track ocean currents until 2007. by oscillathor

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ATLtinyrick t1_ixaz0ru wrote on November 22, 2022 at 2:12 AM

Reply to comment by Imrustyokay in TIL that in 2003, scientists "resurrected" an extinct species of Ibex, bringing back one living specimen, only for it go extinct again seven minutes later when the specimen died of a lung defect by mausoliam95

Most cars still had cassette players to be fair

ATLtinyrick t1_isoenjm wrote on October 17, 2022 at 2:27 PM

Reply to comment by momentimori in TIL that before the invention of regfrigeration in 1851, ice had to be imported to Australia from Boston, Massachusetts. The ice blocks travelled through the tropics inside ships insulated with timber, straw, peat, and sawdust by stumcm

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ATLtinyrick t1_irrifkd wrote on October 10, 2022 at 2:22 PM

Reply to comment by danteheehaw in TIL Boeing B17 pilots often accidentally raised the undercarriage after landing, destroying the propellors and damaging the underbelly, due to the undercarriage lever and the flap lever looking the same. by Lkwzriqwea

What model of aircraft are you referring to? Even at Pearl Harbor, the US primarily was flying the SBD Dauntless… which was introduced in 1940. I don’t think any nation were flying First World War vintage aircraft in the Second World War