For 33 years, a ‘true story’ about the ‘the resonant frequency of a chicken’s skull cavity’ buried in an MS-DOS help file has sustained an urban legend that a certain sound wavelength will make chicken heads explode
via pcgamer.com
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Earlier this year, we relayed a story about how Janet Jackson’s song Rhythm Nation just so happened to include the resonant frequency of 5,400 RPM 2.5-inch hard drives commonly used in laptops for many years. When played on (or even near) those laptops, the song would cause the drives to malfunction—and it was such a […]