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...March 27, 2020Photographer Robert Landsberg was taking photographs during the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980. Upon realizing he wouldn't survive, he lied down on top of his equipment to preserve the photograph...
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...June 16, 2020Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic artist with the amazing ability to draw any landscape from memory after seeing it just once. He drew a 19 ft long picture of New York City from memory after just a 20...
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...June 11, 2020Ina Koenig, a German kindergarten teacher,jumped down a 75-foot mine shaft when one of her 3-year-old students accidentally fell down it. The shaft was flooded with cold water and for more than 2 hou...
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...February 23, 2020After being denied permission to construct a building on an empty lot, a London man applied for a permit for a tank. The council approved thinking it was a septic tank. Instead the man bought a Russi...
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...April 18, 2020An asthmatic otter named Mishka has learned how to use an AeroKat inhaler to help deal with asthma attacks. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.livescience.com/52288-mishka-otter-asthma.html
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...August 16, 2019Aitzaz Hassan, a 15-years-old, Pakistani schoolboy, who in 2014, when he saw a suicide bomber at the gates to his school, decided to confront the man, while his friends ran inside, detonating the bom...
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...August 20, 2019A German shepherd named Talero stayed next to the body of his owner for 23 days after he had died in a snow storm. He prevented animals from attacking the body and tried to keep his owner warm by sle...
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...May 3, 2020Mr. P is a 101-year-old Italian man who survived both the Spanish Flu and WW2, and has now beat Covid-19 too. He was born in 1919 while the 1918 flu pandemic was raging in his hometown of Rimini. – W...
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...July 23, 2020Deland McCullough, a former NFL player and now coach, was given up for adoption at birth in 1973. He found his birth mother in 2017. She told him the name of his father, who turned out to be his coll...
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...August 4, 2019Two guys used their dead friend's ashes as fishing bait and caught the words biggest carp. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/665098/Fishermen-dead-frien-FISH-BAIT-bizarre...
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...February 16, 2020On NASA's Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin (who did his doctoral thesis at MIT on line-of-sight orbital mechanics) successfully calculated the docking trajectory ...
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...April 7, 2020Researchers found during the 2017 North American eclipse that bees don't buzz during an eclipse. The bees were active and noisy right up until the last moments before totality. As totality hit, the ...
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...March 30, 2020Tim Wong, a 28-year-old aquatic biologist from northern California, has single-handedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly species in his backyard! – WTF Fun Facts Sour...
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...August 17, 2020Francis Tsai was an artist for Marvel who was diagnosed with ALS. When the disease paralyzed his arms, he learned to draw using his right foot on an iPhone. When he was no longer able to use his feet...
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...October 21, 2020Klepetan is a male stork who has migrated from South Africa to Croatia every year for the last 20 years to be with Melena, a female stork who can't fly after being shot by a hunter. She lives indoors...
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...August 27, 2019A 13-year-old opened a hot dog stand in front of his home in Minnesota, causing a complaint to the health department. Instead of shutting him down, the inspectors helped him bring his stand up to cod...
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...February 4, 2020Japan has installed special concrete tunnels under some of their train tracks to allow for turtles to cross the tracks. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/japane...
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...April 12, 2020James Christopher Harrison is an Australian blood donor whose rare plasma composition has helped in the treatment of Rhesus disease. In May 2018, he made his final donation (1173rd) at the age of 81 ...
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...April 5, 2020In 2013, the town of Brunete near Madrid had volunteers watch for dog owners who didn't pick up their dog's poop, gather the owner's information by petting the dogs, and then sent the poop to their h...
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...August 26, 2019A seven year old Indian boy complaining of jaw pain was treated in a local hospital and found to have 526 teeth inside his mouth. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/01/asia/indi...
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...July 23, 2019The summit of Mt. Everest is made of marine limestone which means the highest point on earth was once at the bottom of the sea. – WTF Fun FactsSource: http://www.montana.edu/everest/facts/summit-lim...
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...September 16, 2019In 2015, three inmates from a maximum-security prison beat Harvard's debate team in a competitive debate arranged by the Bard College Prison Initiative. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://edition.cnn...
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...January 6, 2020The Swedish Peace and Arbitration Society created a sign dubbed the Singing Sailor to keep the Russian submarines out of their border. It displays an animated sailor in underwear thrusting his hips w...
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...March 20, 2020After 13 years of trying to find the structure of a protein, scientists created an online competitive game called Foldit that asked gamers to try and solve it. The structure was then found in 3 weeks...
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...November 1, 2020In the 1990's, a mystery soda vending machine appeared in Capitol Hill, Seattle. The machine dispensed rare or discontinued drinks cans. It was unknown who filled it. In June 2018, the machine disapp...
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...January 28, 2020In Saudi Arabia, a dozen camels were disqualified from a camel beauty contest for getting Botox injections to make them more attractive. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.thenational.ae/world/gcc/...
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...March 24, 2020Ada Lovelace, considered one of the first computer programmers, wrote a theory of "flyology" on powered flight that accurately documented wing-body ratios to achieve flight. She was 12 years old when...
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...May 3, 2020Ninja's could tell time time by how dilated a cat's pupils were as they dilate in a regular pattern throughout the day, regardless of ambient light. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://books.google.c...
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...October 30, 2020In 2009, a 14-year-old boy showed up at a Chicago police station in uniform and worked 5 hours of a shift. He acquired a police radio, ticket book and rode with an officer for several hours before he...
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...September 12, 2019All of McDonald's delivery trucks in the UK have been running on used cooking oil from their restaurants since 2007. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-mcdonalds-biodiesel/...
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...March 1, 2020A 2015 study by Clear Labs found that 10% of vegetarian hot dogs sold in the US had meat in them. An additional 2% contained human DNA. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2015/10/26/hea...
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...August 2, 2019Disney has credited their coffee guy in 8 of their films, including Zootopia and Frozen. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/the-guy-that-makes-disn...
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...November 19, 2019In 2019, the world’s first human-monkey hybrid was created in China. Scientists injected human stem cells into the monkey embryo to create the animal-human hybrid. The experiment was stopped before t...
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...January 26, 2020Astronauts in space need to sleep near fans so that when they exhale, there isn't a CO2 cloud in front of their face causing them to potentially suffocate. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.quora.c...
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...May 17, 2020During WWII, the Allied's considered having a gardener inject estrogen into carrots to be eaten by Adolf Hitler in order to alter his hormones so he would become more feminine and less aggressive. –...
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...May 3, 2020After his daily 20-km run in 1976, Shavarsh Karapetyan (a retired Armenian swimmer) came upon an accident scene where a bus had fallen into a reservoir. Repeatedly diving 10m deep,Karapetyan pulled ...
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...April 6, 2020In 2010, Dr. Elena Bodnar created the "Emergency Bra" which can be unhooked and split into two face masks which filter out harmful chemicals. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.ebbra.com/
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...October 18, 2020American Lydia Fairchild gave birth to three children whose DNA didn’t match her own. While filing for child support, she was charged with benefits fraud until her lawyer helped discover she was a ch...
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...August 3, 2019In 1987, a man convinced 2.8 million people to send him a penny each for his college education. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1991-05-13-9102120530-story.html...
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...October 7, 2019Stone Man Syndrome is an extremely rare condition whereby any small damage to tissue is regrown into bone.– WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.rarediseasereview.org/publications/2017/1/9/stone-man-...
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...December 28, 2019A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast that it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2008/07/19/t...
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...February 24, 2020A new microbe called a hemimastigote was found in Nova Scotia. The Hemimastix kukwesjijk is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa. It constitutes an entirely new kingdom, a new branch on the tree ...
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...April 18, 2020It is illegal under German law to deny the holocaust occurred and is punishable by up to 5 years in prison. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laws_against_Holocaust_denial#Germ...
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...October 30, 2020In 2005, Al-Qaeda posted a picture on one of their websites claiming to have a US military hostage, but it was actually a Special Ops Cody action figure. – WTF Fun Facts Source: http://news.bbc.co...
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...July 3, 2019Playing the electronic song 'Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites' by Skrillex reduces mosquito bites and also hinders their ability to mate. – WTF Fun Facts https://youtu.be/WSeNSzJ2-Jw Source: ...
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...February 11, 2020Volunteers spent 2 years cleaning up over 11,500,000 pounds of trash along Mumbai's Versova beach in one of 'the world’s largest beach clean-ups', resulting in Olive Ridley turtles returning to lay e...
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...November 14, 2019In 2010, the Colombian army produced a song called 'Better Days' with Morse code embedded in the chorus and aired it in rebel-controlled territory to lift the morale of hostages. The message said "19...
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...January 27, 2020The red flag, when used by pirates, came to mean "no quarter given", or no mercy would be shown and no life would be spared. Alternatively, a black flag meant that those who surrendered without a fig...
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...February 12, 2020In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when 9yr-old Ronald McNair refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT and died in 1986 aboard the space shuttle Challe...
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...March 16, 2020The builders of Japan's Nijo castle created purposefully squeaky floors, known as nightingale floors, to prevent ninja assassins from sneaking in. The floors were designed so that just the lightest ...
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...March 19, 2020Napoléon Bonaparte’s penis was removed from his dead body during autopsy, displayed at a museum, and eventually sold for $2,700 in the 1970s. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/ne...
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...March 31, 2020Ferdinand Cheval was a French mailman who spent 33 years building a palace with stones he collected on his mail route. Le Palais idéal ("Ideal Palace") is regarded as an extraordinary example of naï...
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...October 4, 2020The Sony PlayStation, originally known as the Game Player, was never meant to be a Nintendo competitor. It was designed in partnership with Nintendo to exclusively play Nintendo games on compact disc...
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...March 22, 2020In 1975, the mummified body of bank robber Elmer McCurdy was found in an amusement park by a TV crew. It had been mistaken for a wax mannequin, and was only found out after a man moved it and its arm...
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...July 10, 2020A long-haired tortoiseshell cat called 'Towser' is credited with killing an estimated 28899 mice in 24 years of work as the pest control expert at the Glenturret whiskey distillery in Scotland. She h...
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...November 25, 2020The US Navy has a tradition that no submarine is ever considered lost at sea. Subs that don't return, including 52 lost during WWII, are considered "still on patrol." Every year at Christmas sailors ...
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...October 7, 2020In 2008, actor Robert Pattinson got rid of a stalker who had been camping outside his apartment by taking her out on a dinner date. "I just complained about everything in my life and she never came b...
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...July 24, 2019Some baby turtles talk to each other while they are still in their eggs so that they all hatch together. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21228-turtle-eggs-communicate-...
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...March 19, 2020When DMA Design/Rockstar Games first released Grand Theft Auto, they actually paid reviewers to negatively review the game in order to keep it controversial and thus popular. They planted articles in...
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...April 2, 2020Researchers recently demonstrated that twig-mimicking caterpillars of the peppered moth can sense a twig's color with their skin. Caterpillars that were blindfolded changed the color of their bodies ...
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...April 20, 2020If you took out all of the empty space from between and within the atoms making up each human being, the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube. – WTF Fun Facts Source: http:...
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...September 15, 2020Harry John Patch was the last surviving soldier from World War 1 and was briefly the oldest man in Europe. He died at the age of 111 years, 1 month,1 week and 1 day. – WTF Fun Facts Sour...
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...September 16, 2020There's been a prisoner in Canada since 2013 known as "the Unknown Person" because he refuses to identify himself. His fingerprints are tied to four different identities from two countries plus one w...
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...July 23, 2019In 2007, Navy SEAL Mike Day was shot 27 times by three al-Qaeda gunman and knocked unconscious by a grenade. When he awoke, he managed to kill two of them and escape to the extraction helicopter. He ...
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...October 6, 2019There is a small hopping insect known as Issus Coleoptratus which has toothed gears in its joints to precisely synchronize its legs while jumping. They are the only mechanical gears which have been ...
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...January 17, 2020The iconic game Goldeneye 007 for the Nintendo 64 gaming system was created by a group of only 9 people, 8 of which had never worked on a video game before. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://uproxx....
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...February 11, 2020In 1821, an African American business owner named Thomas Jennings invented the dry cleaning process and was one of the first African Americans to be granted a patent. He used the proceeds from his in...
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...February 14, 2020Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant who was the only surivor after JAT Flight 367 exploded on January 26, 1972. As a result, she holds the world record for surviving the highest fall withou...
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...September 19, 2020During WW2, German fighter ace Franz Stigler noticed a US B-17 bomber was too damaged to fight back, and escorted it back to Britain instead of shooting it down, risking execution in the process. Man...
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...July 22, 2019Ioannis Ikonomou works as a translator for the European Commission, speaking 21 of the 24 EU official languages. He can speak a total of 47 languages including many dead languages like Old Church Sl...
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...November 21, 2019Facebook created two AI chatbots named Alice and Bob but shut them down when they stopped communicating in English because it wasn't as efficient as the language they developed themselves. – WTF F...
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...June 28, 2019Twenty percent of all marriages globally are between first cousins. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-ban-cousin-marriages_b_2567162?guccounter=1
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...July 15, 2019There is a colorless and odorless liquid you can breathe in which is called perfluorohexane. Animals can be submerged in it without drowning. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Per...
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...January 11, 2020In 1996, a man in Devon, England spent a year hooting at owls and logging their response only to find out his neighbor was unknowingly the 'owl' hooting back. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.i...
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...November 18, 2020In the movies Poltergeist, The House on Haunted Hill, and Frankenstein, they used real dead bodies as props because fake ones didn't exist and would be too costly to make. – WTF Fun Facts Source: ...
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...November 10, 2020The gelatin in Haribo gummy bears contains nine out of the ten amino acids which are essential to our bodies. – WTF Fun Facts Source: http://web.archive.org/web/20190702121016/https://www.haribo.c...
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...August 25, 2019The record for the most kids born to a single mother is 69. Russian Valentina Vassilyeva labored 27 times and gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. – WTF F...
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...November 6, 2019In 1912, Jim Thorpe, an American Indian, won two Olympic gold medals with a mismatched pair of shoes taken from the garbage. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe
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...February 4, 2020In the late 1600s, London was plagued by a sexual attacker, dubbed 'Whipping Tom', who would spank his victims with his hand or sometimes a rod and shout 'Spanko!' before running away. – WTF Fun Fact...
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...March 18, 2020Switzerland is the only country in the world which could fit more than its entire population into bunkers in case of an emergency. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Cascade/index.ht...
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...June 6, 2020It is estimated that the Earth as a whole is struck by an average of more than a hundred lightning bolts every second. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/6/flash-...
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...July 12, 2020In 1964, A Scotsman survived without eating for 1 year and 17 days and consequently only pooping every 40-50 days. He lived entirely off his excess body fat, yeast, and a multi-vitamins. He ended up ...
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...July 14, 2020On July 28, 1996, a man's body was found in a trawler's fishing nets in the English Channel. There was no identification on the body except a 25-year-old Rolex Oyster on his wrist. They were able to ...
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...August 17, 2020Louis Le Prince, who filmed the first ever motion pictures, disappeared without a trace in 1890. Thomas Edison soon took credit as the first and sole inventor of cinematography and was granted US pat...
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...December 29, 2020In 1997, a pot-bellied pig named Lulu saved her owner who was having a heart attack. Hearing her owner in distress, Lulu forced her way out of the yard and played dead on the road. Lulu successfully ...
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...February 18, 2020Incredibly, recycling just one ton of paper saves 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space, 17 mature trees, 682.5 gallons of oil and 7000 gallons of water. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.recyclingbin....
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...April 9, 2020In Japan, businesses like banks & convenience stores visibly keep baseball-sized orange orbs behind the counter. These "anticrime color balls" are filled with bright pigment that burst on impact ...
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...June 20, 2020Michel "Monsieur Mangetout" Lotito could eat glass, metal, rubber and more. The Frenchman once consumed an entire Cessna 150 airplane over a two year period. He ate an estimated nine tons of metal be...
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...July 21, 2020When going to battle, Rajput clans would armor their specially bred horses with fake elephant trunks, making them appear to be baby elephants which the enemy’s adult elephants instinctively would not...
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...October 20, 2020Steve Leech, a milkman in Cornwall, was doing his rounds when he saw a shop on fire. He used 320 pints of milk to put out the fire, saving seven other stores. He a "Hero Milkman of the Millennium'" a...
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...June 9, 2020Alfred Hitchcock bought all the copies of Robert Bloch's Psycho, which was published in 1959, in order to keep the plot twists a secret for the film debut in 1960. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://...
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...August 19, 2019A 25 year old Kenyan man invented smart gloves that can convert sign language movements into speech. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.wearable-technologies.com/2019/06/kenyan-invents-smart-gloves...
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...September 9, 2019Nikola Tesla was able to perform integral calculus in his head, which often lead his teachers to believe he was cheating. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla#Early_...
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...October 9, 2019There are hundreds of species of spiders that disguise themselves as ants by pretending their two front legs are antennae in order to hide from predators and hunt their prey. – WTF Fun Facts Sourc...
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...March 28, 2020The International Potato Center has successfully grown potatoes in a simulated Mars environment. They grew the plants at the same air pressure and atmosphere as on Mars, and used saline desert soils ...
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...April 30, 2020Professional grade shuttlecocks are made only from the feathers of the left wing of geese. Feathers from the right wing make them spin the wrong way. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.inverse.c...
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...June 24, 2020Fairy-wrens often have other birds laying eggs in their nests (a brood parasite). They have adapted by singing a special tune to their eggs. Once hatched, those that sing the password get food while ...
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...December 8, 2019In 2016, a British man crowdfunded a ten hour film of paint drying in order to force the British Board of Film Classification to watch it. It was a protest against the BBFC requiring independent film...
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...February 8, 2020A rescue dog in Mexico named Frida saved the lives of 12 people who were trapped under rubble due to earthquakes. She identified a total of 52 bodies during her career. Now retired, she is a nationa...
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