The world’s best selling toy is the Rubik’s Cube. Over 350 million cubes have been sold – 200 million between 1980 when it was first introduced and 1983. The patent expired in 2000 leading to a number of new cube concepts. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.considerable.com/entertainment/retronaut/rubiks-cube
Elephants can hear with their feet. They are specialists in seismic communication, relying upon sound waves that travel within the surface of the ground instead of through the air. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sfgate.com/science/article/Elephants-can-hear-through-their-feet-2593114.php
Psychogenic death is a condition where a person develops extreme apathy, gives up hope, relinquishes the will to live and dies, despite the lack of an obvious physical cause.–WTF Fun Facts
Source:Psychogenic death: 5 signs of giving up the will to live (ideapod.com)
The male Banggai cardinalfish fertilizes the females clutch of eggs and then immediately sucks them into his mouth where he stores them for a month. Scientists believe they don’t eat while doing so except for some of the eggs either accidentally or by “design”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.seattleaquarium.org/blog/creature-feature-male-mouth-brooding-banggai-cardinalfish
In Tikrit, Iraq, there’s a 6 ft. tall monument of the shoe that journalist Muntadhar al-Zeidi threw at George Bush. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Shoe monument for man who threw footwear at Bush | Reuters
In 1999, a group of hackers identified a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Hotmail which allowed access to ~50 million email accounts. There was a login script called “start” which used “eh” as the password. – WTF Fun Facts
In 1978, Richard Branson was trying to impress his girlfriend by pretending to buy a private island in the BVI. It was listed for $6M and he offered $100k as a joke. The owner later sold Nekker island to Branson for $180k. He would marry the same girl there 11 years later. – WTF Fun Facts
A fingerprint consists of one or more connected ridge units of friction ridge skin. There are three basic patterns of fingerprints: whorl, loop, and arch. Some people have one pattern, others two, and others all three patterns. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Say What?! Fingerprints, A Crazy Concept – Allbodies
After George Washington read the Declaration of Independence on July 9, 1776, the crowd was so moved that they toppled the statue of King George III, decapitated it, and then later melted the body to make bullets. The head eventually made it’s way back to England. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/declaration-of-independence/