on What happened if you dropped a penny from the Empire State Building?0 votes

pennies also tumble instead of falling point down, which slows them even more. the "penny drop kills a pedestrian" thing is basically an urban legend at this point.

on What happened to the Numa Numa guy?1 votes

his name is Gary Brolsma, he made the video in 2004 lip-syncing to a Romanian pop song and it became one of the first true viral internet videos. he got overwhelmed by the sudden fame and mostly stepped back from public life afterward.

on What happened to the Rosetta Stone after it was discovered?1 votes

it's actually only a fragment of a larger stele, the rest has never been found. its inscriptions being in three scripts is what let scholars finally crack Egyptian hieroglyphs.

on What happened to Internet Explorer?0 votes

microsoft finally put it out of its misery in 2022 and replaced it with Edge (which is just chromium under the hood now anyway). IE was the punchline of every web dev joke for like a decade because of how bad it was with modern web standards.