The clearest natural fresh water in the world is within Blue Lake in Nelson, New Zealand. Visibility in the lake is up to 80 meters, meaning the water is considered almost as optically clear as distilled water. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Blue Lake (Tasman) – Wikipedia
Olympic swimming is only timed to hundredths of a second (which has led to several ties) because the pools aren’t built to the millimeter tolerances necessary to measure thousandths of a second. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: #EngineeringTheOlympics: Tolerance in Olympic Swimming results in more ties — Born to Engineer
In 1997, Mötley Crüe created a soda called “Mötley Brüe” to help promote their new album “Generation Swine.” They intentionally added so much blue dye to the soda it would turn the drinker’s urine into a green color. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Swine
Jeremy Meeks’ mugshot was so good that he got a modeling contract while he was still in jail. He served 13 months in jail and walked in NY Fashion Week a year later. He also walked in Milan Fashion Week, helped launch a fashion line, acted – all within 5 years of his release. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Jeremy Meeks – Wikipedia
Roberto Solis was sentenced to life in prison in 1969 for murdering an armored truck driver. He became a successful poet in prison under an alias which led multiple popular writers to petition for his release. He was released and in 1993 he robbed an armored truck for $3 million and is still on the run. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: A fugitive turns herself in after 12 years (nbcnews.com)
If you rub fresh garlic on the soles of your feet, about an hour later you can actually taste the garlic. This is because the molecule that causes garlic’s smell, allicin, is small enough to penetrate the skin and blood vessels, where it goes all the way up to your mouth and nose. – WTF Fun Facts
Vikings fed their wounded soldiers a strong onion soup to help gauge how deep a stomach wound was. After a few minutes, they would smell the wound and if they could smell the onion soup, they knew the wound was too deep and they could not be saved. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Why wounded viking warriors ate strong onion soup – We Are The Mighty
In 1524, a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, was accused of being a witch. They put it on trial by water and threw it in the Dvina river. Since the wooden statue floated, they declared it guilty and burned it. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2017, a KFC “spacecraft” brought a Kentucky Fried Chicken Zinger sandwich into space aboard a high-altitude balloon, where it stayed for four days before returning to Earth. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: When KFC *actually* went to space: Before Zinger 1, there was ‘Chix in Space’ | collectSPACE