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.

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The More You Know

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  • A German and British aeroplane shot each other down in Norway during WWII. The crew met and helped each other survive. Two of them later visited each other many years after the war was over as friends.
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