There’s a giant lavender maze in Shelby, Michigan. In 2001, Barbara Bull started making the maze, which is now so big it can be seen on Google Earth. It takes an hour to reach the center which is an herb garden. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/86035/west-michigan-home-giant-lavender-labyrinth
In the 1980’s, you were 10x more likely to be bitten by another person in New York City than you were to be attacked by a shark at the beach. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/shark-attacks/odds/compare-risk/nyc-biting-injuries/
Morioka Shoten is a bookshop in Tokyo that only sells one book at a time. The owner, Yoshiyuki Morioka, chooses a new book each week. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2015/12/24/this-bookshop-only-sells-one-book-at-a-time-5584295/
When Apple was buying rural land for a new data center in Maiden, North Carolina, one older couple refused to sell their one-acre plot of land which they had originally purchased for $6,000 34 years ago. After rejecting every single offer, Apple asked them to name a price and they sold it for $1.7 million. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://gizmodo.com/old-couple-sells-apple-their-house-for-1-7million-for-5655845
In 2016, the Swiss city of Lausanne banned ‘silent disco’ events because they were too noisy. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thelocal.ch/20160203/lausanne-bans-silent-disco-events-for-being-too-noisy
In Bruges, Belgium there is a 2 mile long beer pipeline that flows from De Halve Maan brewery in the city’s historic center with a bottling plant in the suburbs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/19/news/beer-pipeline-bruges-belgium/index.html
The Earth is a greener place than it was 20 years ago thanks to ambitious tree planting programs in China and intense cultivation of food crops in India. – WTF Fun Facts
A Swiss couple in the Maldives paid £820 to have their wedding vows renewed in the native Dhivehi language. The subtitles of the YouTube video revealed that the minister had actually been insulting them, calling them ‘infidels’ and their children ‘bastard swine’. – WTF Fun Facts
Farmers in Botswana have started painting eyes on their cows’ butts to trick Lions into thinking they have been seen. This prevents them from ultimately attacking the cows as Lions rely on the element of surprise. – WTF Fun Facts
Mastercard’s Global headquarters is located on Purchase Street in Purchase, New York. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mastercard.us/en-us/vision/who-we-are/global-locations.html
In 2011, Hugh Hefner saved the iconic ‘HOLLYWOOD’ sign for a second time by donating the final $900,000 the Trust for Public Land needed to buy the land before being bought by real estate developers. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2010-apr-27-la-me-hollywood-sign-20100427-story.html
During World War 2, the Taj Mahal’s dome was covered with bamboo scaffolding by the British government to make it difficult for German and Japanese bombers to identify it.–WTF Fun Facts
Source:https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/travelnews/story/69399/the-taj-mahal-under-camouflage
Nymphas Show Bar is an abandoned underwater strip club located in Eilat, Israel. It was accessible to patrons by stairs from above sea level. – WTF Fun Facts
The 2018 movie Christopher Robin was banned from China as a result of a recent crackdown on Winnie The Pooh, who has become a symbol of resistance against the country’s ruling Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping. – WTF Fun Facts
A Swiss man was reported missing by his girlfriend after falling into Disneyland Paris’s lake while under the influence of LSD. He was later found naked and confused after a 130-person search-and-rescue effort. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/09/25/disneyland-paris-lsd-naked-man-found/
In 2014, South Korea produced an alternative version of their national anthem “Aegukga,” which was two keys lower in order to make it easier for kids in school (especially males going through puberty) to sing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2014/09/02/is-south-koreas-national-anthem-too-high-pitched/
In 2000, the University of Wisconsin photoshopped Diallo Shabazz’s face onto the cover of an admission booklet to give the illusion of diversity. He sued for a “budgetary apology” and won $10 million which was earmarked for diversity initiatives at the university. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2009/09/02/doctoring-diversity-race-and-photoshop/
The Margherita Hut is the highest building in Europe at 14,941 ft above sea level. The hut which lies on Monte Rosa in the Italian Alps originally began construction in 1889 and was then later restored in 1977. – WTF Fun Facts