This rare phenomenon is called “Baikal Zen”. Rocks that have fallen on the ice of Lake Baikal are heated by sunlight and melt the ice below. Once the sun is gone, the ice becomes solid again, creating a small support for the rock above. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Incredible natural phenomena on Lake Baikal (getaway.co.za)
In 1995, a 3-year-old boy named David Schiffler discovered a dinosaur egg shell while playing in the dirt at a rest stop in New Mexico. His father didn’t believe him at first, but it turned out to be a genuine 150-million-year-old dinosaur egg shell. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: 3-YEAR-OLD’S DIGGING UNEARTHS DINOSAUR EGG – Deseret News
In 2012, General Mills sent professional basketball player Jeremy Lin a special jersey made entirely of Fruit Roll-Ups after he tweeted about his love for the fruit snack. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blog.generalmills.com/2012/05/linsanity-over-fruit-snacks/
Ancient Roman artisans crafted a glass chalice, known as the Lycurgus Cup, using nanoparticles of gold and silver so that it would appear different based on the type of liquid in the cup. On display, it appears jade green when lit from the front but blood-red when lit from behind. – WTF Fun Facts
Big League Chew created its biggest ever pouch for Shaq. It was 24″ x 18″, over 15 times the size of a regular pouch. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bigleaguechew.com/news/shaq-pouch-featured-on-the-nba-on-tnt
In 2008, Nestle played an April Fool’s day prank on consumers by announcing that the name “Butterfinger” had been retired and that the new name “The Finger” was in effect immediately. They even distributed 200,000 Butterfinger bars with “The Finger” wrappers to 7-Eleven stores. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20080401006597/en/BUTTERFINGER-R-Name-Change-an-April-Fools-Day-Prank-to-Celebrate-Launch-of-New-Butterfinger-Comedy-Network-on-Yahoo%21
In 2013, a married couple on a walk came across several rusty buckets sticking out of their land. The buckets were full of gold coins minted from 1847 to 1894. The total value of all the coins was about $11 million with one worth over $1 million on its own. – WTF Fun Facts
“Cat Pawsitive” is a program to help animal shelters teach their cats how to do a “high-five” and other tricks with humans, making them more attractive for adoption. It appears to be helping as over 400 cats who participated were adopted during the first two semesters. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2008, Chile minted 1.5 million 50-peso coins with a spelling error. A year later, they finally noticed they had spelled “CHIIE” instead of “CHILE”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.ngccoin.com/news/article/2739/Chile-2008-50-Peso/
The Streisand effect is a social phenomenon that occurs when an attempt to hide, remove, or censor information has the unintended consequence of further publicizing that information, often via the Internet. It is named as such because entertainer Barbra Streisand attempted to suppress a photograph of her home in 2003, but only made it worse. – WTF Fun Facts
A man from Kansas has asked an Iowa court to grant his motion for trial by combat, so he can meet his ex-wife and her attorney “on the field of battle where (he) will rend their souls from their corporal bodies.” – WTF Fun Facts
At the end of 2019, Leonardo DiCaprio and his friends aboard a luxury yacht helped search for and found another vessel’s overboard crew member who had been treading water for 11 hours near another Caribbean island. – WTF Fun Facts
On Nov. 1, 2020, a metro train near the city of Rotterdam crashed through the barrier at the end of the tracks and luckily landed on a whale’s tail art installation. – WTF Fun Facts
In the 1990’s, a mystery soda vending machine appeared in Capitol Hill, Seattle. The machine dispensed rare or discontinued drinks cans. It was unknown who filled it. In June 2018, the machine disappeared leaving a note saying it went for a walk. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill%27s_mystery_soda_machine
Three cows that were swept off an island in North Carolina during Hurricane Dorian were found alive on a different island. Park officials say they believe the three-stranded cows swam up to five miles. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2009, a 14-year-old boy showed up at a Chicago police station in uniform and worked 5 hours of a shift. He acquired a police radio, ticket book and rode with an officer for several hours before he was found out and later arrested. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/14-year-old-reports-for-police-duty/2090036/
The world’s largest T-shirt was made from 200,000 recycled plastic bottles and measures 96.86 m long by 69.77 m wide. It was created by Plastindia Foundation India on January 5, 2018. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-t-shirt/
If you fell into a tunnel through the center of the Earth, it would take you 42 minutes to complete the trip to the other side of the planet. You would reach a maximum speed of over17,500 MPH at the center of the Earth. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/would-you-fall-all-the-wa/