In 2016, the Swedish Tourist Association created a service where you could call a number and speak to a random Swede. It received nearly 200,000 calls over 79 days with an average duration of just under 3 min. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theswedishnumber.com
A recent study done by Stanford researchers found a positive correlation between the use of profanity and honesty. The individuals who use profanity tend to be more honest. – WTF Fun Facts
Beginning in high school, Luca Iaconi-Stewart spent 9 years and ~10,000 hours building a 1/60-scale model of a Boeing 777 out of manila folders. – WTF Fun Facts
Up until 2007, the Soviets had a three-barrel (2 shotgun and one rifled) space pistol in their Soyuz capsule in case they were stranded in the Siberian wilderness upon re-entry. The TP-82 also had a detachable butt-stock that was a machete. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TP-82_Cosmonaut_survival_pistol
The first online e-commerce transaction ever was Stanford students buying marijuana from MIT students. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://curiosity.com/topics/the-first-online-transaction-was-a-drug-deal-curiosity/
A twelve-year-old from Memphis named Jackson Oswalt built a fusion nuclear reactor in his playroom and became the youngest person to do so, replacing the previous record which was 14 years of age. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://truththeory.com/2019/03/06/meet-a-12-year-old-who-built-a-nuclear-reactor-in-his-playroom/
The Romans weaved fire-retardant asbestos fibers into their napkins and tablecloths. They then cleaned them by throwing them into a hot fire and this made them even whiter than before. – WTF Fun Facts
The world’s most expensive bottle of water, Acqua Di Cristallo Tributo a Modigliani, priced at $51,500, thanks to its hand-made 24-carat gold bottle. – WTF Fun Facts
Hairdresser Alberto Olmedo in Madrid, Spain was disappointed with normal scissors and inspired by medieval barbers, cuts hair with a samurai sword, a blow torch, and metal claws. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://abc7news.com/society/barber-in-spain-uses-samurai-swords-blow-torch-to-cut-hair/4988531/
Postwoman Galina Yermolova uses a monster truck made by a friend to get supplies to her isolated Siberian town. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2015, three inmates from a maximum-security prison beat Harvard’s debate team in a competitive debate arranged by the Bard College Prison Initiative. – WTF Fun Facts
Colorado has over 300 ghost towns, which is more than the number of active municipalities today. Many of them are old mining towns or mill towns that were abandoned in the 1890s. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ghost_towns_in_Colorado
Over 12.5 million plastic rings were made in order to fabricate chain mail for the Lord Of The Rings movie. Two crew members linked the rings by hand into suits of armor. By the end, they had worn their fingerprints off of their thumbs and index fingers. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120737/trivia?ref_=tt_ql_2
All of McDonald’s delivery trucks in the UK have been running on used cooking oil from their restaurants since 2007. – WTF Fun Facts
Maurice Sendak’s classic Where The Wild Things Are was originally titled Where The Wild Horses Are but Maurice realized he was unable to draw horses. – WTF Fun Facts
There is a monument to the lab mouse in Siberia, Russia, commemorating their role in genetic research. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mouse
In 1981, a California doctor saved the life of a 3.2lb preemie baby boy. 30 years later,that doctor was involved in a car accident with a semi-truck and was saved by that baby, who became a paramedic. – WTF Fun Facts
In countries with poor identification document utilization or standardization, electoral ink (aka indelible ink) is used to prevent voter fraud. The silver nitrate in the ink can stain the skin for up to a couple weeks. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Election_ink