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
Allodoxaphobia is the irrational fear of opinions. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://psychtimes.com/allodoxaphobia-fear-of-opinions/
Thecacera pacifica is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk. It is sometimes nicknamed Pikachu nudibranch due to its resemblance to the Pokémon character. – WTF Fun Facts
According to a 2019 poll, the average American adult takes 10.5 trips to the library a year, which is nearly double the amount of times they go to a movie (5.3 trips annually). – WTF Fun Facts
Source: In U.S., Library Visits Outpaced Trips to Movies in 2019 (gallup.com)
The “Status Quo” is an understanding among religious communities with respect to 9 shared religious sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem. As a result, there’s an immovable ladder which was left behind by a mason in the 18th century at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_Quo_(Jerusalem_and_Bethlehem)
In 2016, the Australian city of Wangaratta dealt with a hairy tumbleweed invasion. Nicknamed “hairy panic”, the weed Panicum effusum flourished under the dry conditions and a local farmer’s field that was left unmanaged. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: What is the ‘hairy panic’ tumbleweed that has buried a small Australian city? (theconversation.com)
North Korea has their own scoring system for basketball: slam dunks are worth 3 points, field goals in the final 3 minutes of the game are worth 8 points, “3-pointers” are worth 4 if the ball doesn’t touch the rim, and a point is deducted for missed free throws. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.opencourt-basketball.com/north-korea-basketball-implemented-some-crazy-new-rules/
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/
During the Islamic Golden Age, the medieval scholar Rhazes was tasked with choosing the location of a new hospital in Baghdad. He hung meat at points around the city and chose the location where it rotted the slowest. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Islamic Golden Age – Wikipedia