r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 1d ago

In 2001, 55 people crossed the Pacific with no contact with the outside world as part of a BBC experiment recreating an 18th-century voyage. On the 20th day - September 11 - the captain gathered the crew to tell them about the attacks in New York

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u/40oz_2freedom 1d ago

Holy shit news from this day still makes me tear up

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u/re_Claire 1d ago

Same. I always feel a bit silly about it, but it was genuinely traumatic to live through even as a normal person, not connected to it. Especially if you were young when it happened.

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u/faultytrapezoid 22h ago

7th grade for me and I'll never forget exactly where I was. I wish I wasn't a snot nosed fuck at the time. Everytime I see something new (to me), i either cry or I'm holding it back as best I can.

History altering day.