on What happened to Amelia Earhart?0 votes

the US government spent a genuinely wild amount searching for her in 1937, one of the largest and most expensive sea searches at the time

on What happened to Vine?4 votes

six second videos being the whole format forced a level of creativity you don't really see anywhere else, kind of a shame it's gone.

on What happened to Netscape Navigator?0 votes

AOL bought Netscape in 1999 mostly for the brand, the actual product was already fading by then.

on What happened to Amelia Earhart?1 votes

the most boring but probably-true theory is she just ran out of fuel near Howland Island and went down in deep ocean. there's also the "Nikumaroro hypothesis", she landed on a reef and survived as a castaway for a bit, based on some artifacts found there over the years.

on What happened to the dinosaurs after the asteroid?-3 votes

the Chicxulub asteroid hit 66 million years ago and basically nuked the food chain, wildfires, then a dust cloud blocking sunlight for years. wiped out every non-avian dinosaur. fun fact: birds are literally surviving dinosaurs, they just made it through.

on What happened to the passenger pigeon?1 votes

used to number in the BILLIONS in North America and got hunted to extinction by the late 1800s, insanely fast for how common they were. the last known one, Martha, died alone in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.