The Colombian river Cano Cristales is commonly called the River of Five Colors or Liquid Rainbow because of its striking colors. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20190320-colombias-river-of-five-colours
Your tooth enamel is harder than a lobster’s shell or a rhino’s horn. It’s even harder than steel. It’s made of mineralized calcium phosphate, which is the hardest substance a living being can produce. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_enamel
In Germany, those who urinate in the streets are known as wildpinklers, meaning “free pee-ers”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thelocal.de/20151127/cologne-wards-off-drunks-with-walls-that-pee-back
IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD) in September 1956. The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://ed-thelen.org/RAMAC/Myths.html
During the Great Depression, a banker convinced families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares for $19 a piece. The town later became the single richest per capita in the USA with 67 millionaires. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-town-of-cocacola-millionaires-quincy-florida
In 1955, the Zion Meat Company held a beauty pageant during their national hot dog week and declared Geene Courtney the Sausage Queen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.littlethings.com/funny-bizarre-beauty-queens-1950s-1960s/1
China is the world’s largest mobile games market, accounting for over 25 per cent of global revenue. Domestic games revenue in China is expected to reach a staggering total of $42 billion by 2022. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-08-chinas-games-market-expected-to-reach-usd42-billion-by-2022
When Steve Madden, founder and CEO of the footwear company, was convicted of fraud and forced to resign, he created a new consultant position for himself that paid him $700k a year while in prison. – WTF Fun Facts
Up until 1858, all British Passports were written in French. The International Civil Aviation Organisation standard today recommends that, where the language of the issuing state is English, French or Spanish, they should supplement with one of the other languages. – WTF Fun Facts