There are over 900 stone ring monuments in the British Isles. Stonehenge is just the most famous of all of them. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: History of Kingston Russell Stone Circle | English Heritage (english-heritage.org.uk)
There are over 900 stone ring monuments in the British Isles. Stonehenge is just the most famous of all of them. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: History of Kingston Russell Stone Circle | English Heritage (english-heritage.org.uk)
In 2008, the street sport of “extreme sitting” or hockern was created in Berlin. You can purchase a special stool for this sport for around $70. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Hockern Takes ‘Extreme Sitting’ to New Level | WIRED
Classical Greece wasn’t filled with pure white marble statues and structures. The statues and ruins we see today were at one time painted in all kinds of vivid colors that time has just worn away to the bare white marble. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Were Greek & Roman Statues Painted? True Colors of Classical Art – The Ancient Home
“Loganamnosis” is a word to describe an obsession with recalling a specific word that has been forgotten. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: loganamnosis – Wiktionary
A kindergarden school in Karlsruhe, Germany has been built to look like a giant white cat, complete with whiskers and circular windows for eyes and a slide for a tail. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: German Kindergarten Designed as a Giant Cat (mymodernmet.com)
29-yr-old Marine veteran Taylor Winston stole a truck to drive victims of the Las Vegas shooting to the hospital. He and his girlfriend made 2 trips picking the most critically injured each time after helping boost others over a fence away from the shooter. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: How a Marine vet saved 2 dozen lives during the Las Vegas shooting (businessinsider.com)
In 2015, Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo created a study to induce a drug-free altered state of consciousness by sitting and stare into someone else’s eyes for 10 minutes straight. – WTF Fun Facts
The Humr people of Sudan consume Umm Nyolokh, a drink made from the liver and bone marrow of giraffes which is believed to contain traces of the psychodelic drug DMT . The Humr people tell of hallucinations of giraffes after drinking Umm Nyolokh. – WTF Fun Facts
Many elderly Japanese are committing petty crimes in order to get free shelter and food. Twenty percent of crimes are committed by someone over age 65. Of the 2,500 over-65s convicted in 2016, more than 1/3rd had at least five previous convictions. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Why some Japanese pensioners want to go to jail – BBC News