What ancient mystery has been solved today

About 3,400 years ago, one of the famous "Colossi of Memnom" from Egypt began to "sing ." Yes, according to some hieroglyphics , during the sunrise, one of the statues

It began to emit a sound that lasted for minutes . The sound was described as a powerful, yet somehow mysterious, tone that slowly faded away.

Naturally, this fact has left many researchers and archaeologists perplexed.

After further investigation, it was discovered that the reason the statue was actually singing was because the heat produced in the early morning hours evaporated the dew trapped inside the cracks of the statue, causing acoustic vibrations that resonated in the Egyptian desert air.

Thus clarifying, thanks to research science, that the statue was not actually singing, but rather emitting acoustic vibrations as the water evaporated inside the cracks.

What mathematical problem was solved in an improbable way?

 In 1939, George Dantzig was a student at the University of California, Berkeley...

… And like many students, he was sometimes late.

One day, when his math class had already begun, Danzig entered class and saw two statistical problems written on the blackboard. Thinking that it was homework for the next lesson, he hurried to write them down without question. And a few days later, he gave the solution to each of these two problems.

Six weeks passed when his statistics teacher (Jerzy Neyman) visited him with unexpected news. Danzig learned that he had solved two of the most famous statistical problems that have not yet been solved.

He later said that the problems "seemed a little more difficult than usual."

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Even though the name Danzig remains relatively unknown, this anecdote has become popular over time. It may remind you of that famous scene with Matt Damon in the movie Good Will Hunting.