Dates and Dimes
The cache they found contained a newspaper that dated it back to 1949. There were a few other documents naming important figures in society at the time as well as a leather wallet containing some money…
University Students Discover Decades-Old Time Capsule Filled with Hilarious Secret Treasures
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The More You Know
- The first pieces of gold at Fort Knox arrived by mail.
- 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.
- A Nepalese doctor has restored the sight of over 100,000 often poverty-stricken people in the last thirty years across Asia and Africa using a 5 minute procedure and an inexpensive artificial lens.
- You spend about 10% of the time you're awake blinking.
Post originally appeared on Upbeat News.