The Sahara desert is made of only 15% sand and sand dunes. Majority of the Sahara and other deserts is rock, rocky plateaus, and gravel covered plains. The sand is just a result of the wind eroding the rock. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/23140-sahara-desert.html
Instant ramen was invented by Momofuku Ando in 1958 and was voted Japan’s greatest invention of the 20th century by the Japanese. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1067506.stm
Urban Outfitters used to sell a board game called Ghettopoly with bonus cards that read: “You got yo whole neighborhood addicted to crack. Collect $50 from each playa.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2004/jan/21/games.shopping
In 14th century England, they baptized children with cider because it was cleaner than the water. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/herefordandworcester/features/facts/index.shtml
A Chinese family adopted what they thought was a Tibetan mastiff but it turned out to be an Asiatic black bear instead. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/05/black-bear-dog-adoption-animals-spd/
The “seeds” on the outside of the strawberry are not actually seeds but ovaries called achenes that contain a separate fruit with a single seed inside it. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wonderopolis.org/wonder/why-does-a-strawberry-have-seeds-on-the-outside
Researchers found that the price paid for something impacts the way we taste and enjoy it. For example, paying a lot more money for the same bottle of wine gives the drinker more pleasure because the higher price causes more blood and oxygen to be sent to the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/study-90-wine-tastes-better-than-the-same-wine-at-10/
The first assassination attempt on Archduke Ferdinand failed spectacularly. The bomb bounced off the car and exploded under the wrong vehicle. The assassin then fled, diving into a nearby dry riverbed and eventually vomiting up his own suicide pill. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://alphahistory.com/worldwar1/assassination-in-sarajevo/
Laid end-to-end, an adult’s arteries, veins and capillaries would stretch for about 100,000 miles – enough to wrap around the world nearly four times. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10976/Circulatory-Blood-vessels.html#ixzz4lbaU3JV5