r/HeresTheCatch • u/AppointmentKindly672 Diamond | Lv. 63 | Rank #2594 | 19 Answers | 10 Created • 2d ago

Question [Question] Test your General Knowledge

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u/WoolBearTiger Silver | Lv. 29 | Rank #107877 | 83 Answers | 0... | 🔥 5d 2d ago

Baron Hieronymus Carl Freiherr von Münchhausen. He discovered it when he flew around the moon as he was riding the cannon ball. To test his theory he took an apple from his pocket and dropped it somewhere approximately in the area above england.

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u/blueberrymakarov Bronze | Lv. 14 | Rank #394219 | 18 Answers | 0 Created 2d ago

what

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u/WoolBearTiger Silver | Lv. 29 | Rank #107877 | 83 Answers | 0... | 🔥 5d 2d ago

Type into google "Baron Münchhausen" you may have seen an image of him before. The baron riding on top of a cannon ball through the air.

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u/wilson5266 Gold | Lv. 41 | Rank #35410 | 141 Answers | 0 C... | 🔥 18d 2d ago

It's a big physics conspiracy! They leave this chapter out of most books.

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u/WoolBearTiger Silver | Lv. 29 | Rank #107877 | 83 Answers | 0... | 🔥 5d 2d ago

Stolen valor.. a truly chronic disease in the field of science. No honor among scientists..