Snapshot · Modern Wisdom
Five eyewitnesses reported a baby being dropped from the top of the burning Grenfell Tower and caught, but physicists later calculated the catch was physically impossible, revealing it as a mass hallucinated memory.
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Five eyewitnesses at the Grenfell Tower fire reported seeing a baby dropped from the top floor and caught. The story spread everywhere. Then physicists ran the numbers: at that height, the force on impact would be lethal. There was no baby. The eyewitnesses had collectively hallucinated a miracle in the middle of a tragedy — a sobering reminder that memory is not a recording, it's a reconstruction.
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