Castroville is a rural town in California that is nicknamed the ‘Artichoke Capital of the World’. 99.9% of all artichokes worldwide are grown in California as they can grow them year round there. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.visitcalifornia.com/attraction/always-season-artichokes
Dashrath Manjhi, known as ‘Mountain Man’, carved a path 360 ft long, 30 ft wide and 25 ft deep through a hill using only a hammer and chisel in India. It took him 22 years but it shortened the journey from 34 miles down to 9. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashrath_Manjhi
Greenland extends farther East of, West of, South of, and North of Iceland. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The Globe
Since 1979, Jadav Payeng aka The Forest Man of India has been planting trees every day on the island of Majuli and Jorhat. In that time, he has built a forest reserve covering 1,360 acres and now that place has its own ecosystem. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/26/572421590/hed-take-his-own-life-before-killing-a-tree-meet-india-s-forest-man
Hoia Baciu is known as one of the world’s most haunted forests and is dubbed the ‘Bermuda Triangle of Romania’ as many people have gone missing in the woods. Visitors often report feeling like they are being watched or suffer sudden anxiety. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoia_Forest
The world’s oldest astronomical clock still operating is the ‘Prague Orloj’ in Prague. The clock was first installed in 1410, making it the third-oldest astronomical clock in the world. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_astronomical_clock
A team of 20 sherpas cleaned up and removed 11 metric tons of garbage and four dead bodies from Mt. Everest in April and May of 2019. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/11-000-kg-garbage-four-dead-bodies-removed-from-mt-everest-in-two-month-long-cleanliness-drive-1543470-2019-06-06
In 2015, a teenager named Bud Weisser was arrested for trespassing in a secure area at the Budweiser Brewery located in St. Louis. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://fox2now.com/2015/12/04/bud-weisser-arrested-for-trespassing-at-budweiser-brewery/
In 2016, the United Kingdom spent over $96000 to create a national sperm bank and ended up with 7 donors before shutting down 2 years later. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37786576
India set a new world record planting over 66 million trees in 12 hours. The Madhya Pradesh state used 1.5 million volunteers to plant the saplings along the Narmada river. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theyouth.in/2019/02/05/india-breaks-guinness-world-record-plants-66-million-trees-in-just-12-hours/
The world’s longest water slide was unveiled in Malaysia and is a 1 kilometer-long chute that starts on a hilltop. It is three times longer than the previous record-holding slide in Germany. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-longest-waterslide-malaysia-escape/index.html
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
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
German WW2 prisoners of war were treated so well in Canadian prisons that many didn’t want to leave the country when released. Thousands of PoW’s stayed in Canada or came back years later. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://legionmagazine.com/en/2012/03/the-happiest-prisoners/
The Washington Monument is capped with a 9″, 100 ounce aluminum pyramid. Aluminum was a precious metal in 1884 and the pyramid was displayed at Tiffany’s jewelry store in New York before it was placed at the top. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_monument_3.html
There’s a town in Alaska named Chicken. The citizens wanted to name it Ptarmigan after a popular local bird but they couldn’t agree on the spelling so they went with chicken instead. – WTF Fun Facts
In the remote Pilbara region of Australia, an aboriginal community built a train to carry their children to school. The train cars are made from metal barrels, and the locomotive is a tractor. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-28/punmu-students-use-barrel-train-to-travel-to-school/8660878?pfmredir=sm
In order to receive a passport, Dutch immigrants must watch a two-hour video which includes beach nudity as a way of making them aware of the Netherlands’s liberal values. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/world/europe/16iht-dutch-5852942.html