The famous Star Trek phrase “Beam me up, Scotty!” was never actually said in any of the Star Trek films or television shows. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103742/has-the-phrase-beam-me-up-scotty-been-used-in-tas-or-any-movies
In 1941, Harvard University undergrad had an acceptance rate of 92%, compared to the 4.5% for the class of 2023. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1956/1/6/admissions-what-kind-of-wheat-to/?page=1
https://www.toptieradmissions.com/resources/college-admissions-statistics/harvard-university-acceptance-rates/
Australia’s first police force (the Night Watch) was made up of 12 of the best behaved criminals. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/australias-first-cops-were-all-criminals.aspx
The 18th century word leint means to “urinate in an alcoholic beverage to increase its strength”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/leint
Americans spend an average of 37 minutes a day doing meal preparation and cleanup. This is roughly half the amount of time that was spent in the 1960’s. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(14)00400-0/fulltext
The ancient Egyptians, while under the rule of Ptolemy II, would confiscate any books that arrived on ships and make a copy. They would then keep the original in the library of Alexandria and return the copied version to the owner. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria
Research shows that you burn more calories taking a set of stairs a single step at a time instead of two at a time. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0051213
Thieves stole a small horn shark from the San Antonio Aquarium using a baby stroller to smuggle the shark out. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thieves-snatch-shark-san-antonio-aquarium-wheel-it-out-baby-n895956
Around 2200 B.C., the Egyptians created the first synthetically created color blue. This Egyptian Blue color glows under fluorescent lights allowing historians to identify the color even when its not visible. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://mymodernmet.com/shades-of-blue-color-history/