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1501: Mysteries

2015-03-20T09:58:31Z

Txoof: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1501
| date = March 20, 2015
| title = Mysteries
| image = mysteries.png
| titletext = At the bottom left: The mystery of why, when I know I needed to be asleep an hour ago, I decide it's a good time to read through every Wikipedia article in the categories 'Out-of-place artifacts', 'Earth mysteries', 'Anomalous weather', and 'List of people who disappeared mysteriously'.
}}

==Explanation==

{| class="wikitable"
!Entry
!Weirdness
!Explainable
!Further Details
|-
|Who Carly Simon is singing about in ''You're So Vain''
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|Lindbergh Baby
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|UVB-76
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|-
|Toynbee Tiles
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|Jimmy Hoffa
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|-
|The WOW Signal
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|A strong and clean radio transmission near 1420 MHz received by the Big Ear Radio Observatory at Ohio State University in 1977 that appears to have originated from interstellar space [http://www.universetoday.com/93754/35-years-later-the-wow-signal-still-tantalizes/]. This is the strongest evidence to date of extraterrestrial radio signals.
|-
|Mary Celeste
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|DB Cooper
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|-
|Salish Sea Feet
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|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries Salish Sea human foot discoveries]
|-
|Lead Masks Case
|Very Strange
|Incomprehensible
|Two Brazilian electricians were found dead on a hill top. No injuries. {{w|Lead Masks Case|Both were wearing lead masks.}}
|-
|MH370
|Very Strange
|Not Easy to Explain
|Malaysian Airlines Flight 370; disappeared on 8 March 2014 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370]
|-
|Voynich Manuscript
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|The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system: {{w|Voynich manuscript|Voynich manuscript.}}
|-
|Why I keep putting ice cream back in the fridge instead of the freezer
|Not Very Weird
|Easily Explainable
|Randal apparently frequently puts his ice cream container into the refrigerator rather than into the freezer.
|-
|JFK
|
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|Oak Island Money Pit
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|Zodiac Letters
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|Amelia Earhart
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|Lost Colony
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|Bigfoot
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|Loch Ness Monster
|
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|-
|Kentucky Meat Shower
|Explainable
|Really weird
|Chunks of meat fell from the sky in Kentucky in 1876; this was possibly projectile vomit from a vulture [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2014/12/01/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/].
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|Dyatlov Pass Incident
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|}

==Transcript==

{{comic discussion}}

1501: Mysteries

2015-03-20T09:35:56Z

Txoof: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1501
| date = March 20, 2015
| title = Mysteries
| image = mysteries.png
| titletext = At the bottom left: The mystery of why, when I know I needed to be asleep an hour ago, I decide it's a good time to read through every Wikipedia article in the categories 'Out-of-place artifacts', 'Earth mysteries', 'Anomalous weather', and 'List of people who disappeared mysteriously'.
}}

==Explanation==

{| class="wikitable"
!Entry
!Weirdness
!Explainable
!Further Details
|-
|Who Carly Simon is singing about in ''You're So Vain''
|
|
|
|-
|Lindbergh Baby
|
|
|
|-
|UVB-76
|
|
|
|-
|Toynbee Tiles
|
|
|
|-
|Jimmy Hoffa
|
|
|
|-
|The WOW Signal
|
|
|
|-
|Mary Celeste
|
|
|
|-
|DB Cooper
|
|
|
|-
|Salish Sea Feet
|
|
|[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salish_Sea_human_foot_discoveries Salish Sea human foot discoveries]
|-
|Lead Masks Case
|Very Strange
|Incomprehensible
|Two Brazilian electricians were found dead on a hill top. No injuries. {{w|Lead Masks Case|Both were wearing lead masks.}}
|-
|MH370
|Very Strange
|Not Easy to Explain
|Malaysian Airlines Flight 370; disappeared on 8 March 2014 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370]
|-
|Voynich Manuscript
|
|
|The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system: {{w|Voynich manuscript|Voynich manuscript.}}
|-
|Why I keep putting ice cream back in the fridge instead of the freezer
|Not Very Weird
|Easily Explainable
|Randal apparently frequently puts his ice cream container into the refrigerator rather than into the freezer.
|-
|JFK
|
|
|
|-
|Oak Island Money Pit
|
|
|
|-
|Zodiac Letters
|
|
|
|-
|Amelia Earhart
|
|
|
|-
|Lost Colony
|
|
|
|-
|Bigfoot
|
|
|
|-
|Loch Ness Monster
|
|
|
|-
|Kentucky Meat Shower
|Explainable
|Really weird
|Chunks of meat fell from the sky in Kentucky in 1876; this was possibly projectile vomit from a vulture [http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/2014/12/01/the-great-kentucky-meat-shower-mystery-unwound-by-projectile-vulture-vomit/].
|-
|Dyatlov Pass Incident
|
|
|
|}

==Transcript==

{{comic discussion}}

1501: Mysteries

2015-03-20T09:19:00Z

Txoof: /* Explanation */

{{comic
| number = 1501
| date = March 20, 2015
| title = Mysteries
| image = mysteries.png
| titletext = At the bottom left: The mystery of why, when I know I needed to be asleep an hour ago, I decide it's a good time to read through every Wikipedia article in the categories 'Out-of-place artifacts', 'Earth mysteries', 'Anomalous weather', and 'List of people who disappeared mysteriously'.
}}

==Explanation==

{| class="wikitable"
!Entry
!Weirdness
!Explainable
!Further Details
|-
|Who Carly Simon is singing about in ''You're So Vain''
|
|
|
|-
|Lindbergh Baby
|
|
|
|-
|UVB-76
|
|
|
|-
|Toynbee Tiles
|
|
|
|-
|Jimmy Hoffa
|
|
|
|-
|The WOW Signal
|
|
|
|-
|Mary Celeste
|
|
|
|-
|DB Cooper
|
|
|
|-
|Salish Sea Feet
|
|
|
|-
|Lead Masks Case
|Very Strange
|Incomprehensible
|Two Brazilian electricians were found dead on a hill top. No injuries. {{w|Lead Masks Case|Both were wearing lead masks.}}
|-
|MH370
|Very Strange
|Not Easy to Explain
|Malaysian Airlines Flight 370; disappeared on 8 March 2014 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_370]
|-
|Voynich Manuscript
|
|
|The Voynich manuscript is an illustrated codex hand-written in an unknown writing system: {{w|Voynich manuscript|Voynich manuscript.}}
|-
|Why I keep putting ice cream back in the fridge instead of the freezer
|Not Very Weird
|Easily Explainable
|Randal apparently frequently puts his ice cream container into the refrigerator rather than into the freezer.
|-
|JFK
|
|
|
|-
|Oak Island Money Pit
|
|
|
|-
|Zodiac Letters
|
|
|
|-
|Amelia Earhart
|
|
|
|-
|Lost Colony
|
|
|
|-
|Bigfoot
|
|
|
|-
|Loch Ness Monster
|
|
|
|-
|Kentucky Meat Shower
|
|
|
|-
|Dyatlov Pass Incident
|
|
|
|}

==Transcript==

{{comic discussion}}

1501: Mysteries

2015-03-20T09:16:42Z

Txoof: /* Explanation */

1501: Mysteries

2015-03-20T09:13:05Z

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1501: Mysteries

2015-03-20T09:11:57Z

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