According to new findings, in one ancient South American culture, some babies wore burial headgear made from other children’s skulls. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/11/21/americas/ecuador-infants-heads-intl-hnk-scli/index.html
Switzerland is the only country in the world which could fit more than its entire population into bunkers in case of an emergency. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.html?appid=2fd3ae6425264b2fb54247636671810c
A meteorwrong is a rock that is believed to be a meteorite, but is in fact just a rock that is terrestrial in origin, also known as a pseudometeorite. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteorwrong
Italy’s top civil court ruled that restaurants must disclose to their customers if they serve frozen food or it’s considered commercial fraud – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thelocal.it/20170719/serving-frozen-food-without-telling-customers-menu-fraud-rules-top-italian-cassation-court
Mary Shelley’s favorite keepsake was her dead husband and poet Percy Shelly’s heart. After the death of her husband, the Frankenstein author carried his heart with her in a silken shroud for almost 30 years until she died in 1851. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/65624/mary-shelleys-favorite-keepsake-her-dead-husbands-heart
If you were on the moon, the Earth wouldn’t actually move in the sky. It would appear to wobble a little because the moon is elliptical but it would never “rise” or “set”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65831-earth-phases-from-moon.html
Thurl Ravenscroft was both the singer of ‘You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch’ and also the voice of Frosted Flakes mascot Tony The Tiger. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft
The builders of Japan’s Nijo castle created purposefully squeaky floors, known as nightingale floors, to prevent ninja assassins from sneaking in. The floors were designed so that just the lightest step produced a clearly audible sound warning guards. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/04/nightingale-floor-ancient-japanese.html
The USSR successfully sent a spacecraft and entry probe to Venus in 1966 becoming the first space probe to hit the surface of another planet – three years before the US put man on the moon. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_3