Bizarre Mysteries That Remain Unsolved to This Day

Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. However, in 1937, on the last leg of her trip around the world, Earhart's plane mysteriously vanished over the Pacific Ocean. Nobody knows what happened to Earhart, her navigator Fred Noonan, or her aircraft.

The More You Know

One in four Americans thinks that the Sun revolves around the Earth.
More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.
Commercial flights were allowed to fly any course to their destination and would often detour over points of interest. This ended in 1956 when two planes crashed mid-flight over the Grand Canyon.
One area of Canada has a weaker gravitational pull than the rest of Earth.

Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.