“Guerrilla grafting” is the illegal process of turning city maintained sterile fruit trees into fruiting trees by splicing compatible branches onto the sterile trees with branches from fruiting trees. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Guerrilla Grafters Bring Forbidden Fruit Back To City Trees : The Salt : NPR
In 1874, the Universal Postal Union exempted the United Kingdom from its rule which stated that a country’s name had to appear on their postage stamps because they were the original creators create a stamp. For all other UPU members, the name must appear in Latin letters. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamp_design
The word “poltergeist” comes from the German words poltern (“to make sound” and “to rumble”) and Geist (“ghost” and “spirit”), thus it literally translates as the term itself translates as “noisy ghost” or “loud spirit”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Poltergeist – Wikipedia
The Bath curse tablets are a collection of ~130 Roman era tablets discovered in 1979 in Bath, England. The tablets invoke the intercession of the goddess Sulis Minerva to aid in the return of the stolen goods and to curse the thieves. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2004, NYU students created a real-world version of Pac-Man entitled PacManhattan, in which a player dressed as Pac-Man had to run around the city avoiding students dressed as ghosts. The game used mobile phone GPS signals to track their positions. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Pac Manhattan
In the case of a double rainbow, the secondary rainbow is nearly twice as wide as the primary bow. Another key feature of double rainbows is that the color sequence in the second rainbow is reversed (VIBGYOR vs ROYGBIV). – WTF Fun Facts
The football shape is known as a prolate spheroid. The football is shaped as such because it’s the shape of an inflated pig’s bladder, which is what the first footballs were made out of. – WTF Fun Facts
At 24,981 ft, Gangkhar Puensum – the 40th highest mountain in the world – is the world’s highest unclimbed mountain. The mountain, which is located in Bhutan, is banned from climbers out of respect for local spiritual beliefs. – WTF Fun Facts
A Vietnamese man was hospitalized after drinking too much methanol. Doctors transfused 15 cans of beer into his body to revive him. The liver breaks down ethanol before methanol which gave doctors more time to do dialysis to remove the alcohol from his system. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Doctors Saved Man’s Life by Pumping 15 Cans of Beer Into His Body (newsweek.com)