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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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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 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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...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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...September 30, 2019Scientists have developed a micro particle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood flow, allowing us to live without breathing. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.foxnews.com/healt...
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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 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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...August 13, 2019The ozone layer above Antarctica is showing signs of healing, thanks to the worldwide ban on chlorofluorocarbons. The hole in the ozone may fully heal by 2080. – WTF Fun Facts Source: http://men...
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...September 13, 2019A convicted deer poacher in Missouri has been sentenced to watch Disney movie Bambi once a month for the entirety of his year-long sentence. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-...
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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 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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...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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...June 30, 2019Up until 2008, the chemical TBT was used in ship's anti-fouling paint, which caused female snails to grow penises and ultimately explode because they couldn't shed their eggs. – WTF Fun FactsSource:...
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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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...August 10, 2019In 1939, Adolf Hitler's nephew wrote an article that was published in Look Magazine called "Why I Hate My Uncle." – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://boingboing.net/2017/04/28/why-i-hate-my-uncle-by-w...
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...October 14, 2019Over 50% of pilots surveyed in the U.K., Norway, and Sweden admitted to have fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane. A third of them stated that when they woke up, they discovered that their co...
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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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...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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...December 3, 2019In the early 1900's, Marshall Field's department store used professional scapegoat's or "fired men" who would take the blame and be fired to appease disgruntled customers. – WTF Fun FactsSource: h...
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...January 8, 2020For over a century, locals in remote parts of India have been using trees to build root bridges, known locally as jing kieng jri. Taking 15 to 30 years to grow, they can span up to 250' above gorges ...
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...January 20, 2020If ripening cherries are not dried after it rains, they will soak up the water, split, and can't be picked and sold. In order to dry them, farmers hire helicopters to slowly maneuver 5 feet over the...
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...July 5, 2019There's an iPhone app to detect a ripe watermelon. You repeatedly knock on the fruit with phone's microphone nearby and it analyzes the sound. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://www.cnet.com/news/melon-...
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...August 26, 2019Contrary to what was depicted in the Jurassic Park movie franchise, velociraptors were no bigger in size than turkeys. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/velociraptor-facts.html
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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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...June 22, 2019There are only two sets of escalators in the entire state of Wyoming. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://www.npr.org/2013/07/18/203361119/where-are-all-of-wyomings-escalators
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...July 23, 2019A 900 lb Mako shark was once autopsied and found to have two pugnose eels living inside its heart chambers. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://www.deepseanews.com/2013/10/ill-see-your-horrifying-crab-ba...
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...September 12, 2019Finnish soldier Aimo Koivunen overdosed on amphetamines while escaping Soviet forces during WWII. After regaining consciousness, he skied more than 250 miles, survived a land mine, and lay in a di...
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...September 23, 2019The first online e-commerce transaction ever was Stanford students buying marijuana from MIT students. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://curiosity.com/topics/the-first-online-transaction-was-a-drug...
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...October 1, 2019Billy Ray Harris is a beggar who was accidentally given a $4000 engagement ring by a passing woman when she dropped it into his cup. He held on to it and two days later the woman came back for her ri...
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...December 11, 2019Kano Jigoro, the father of Judo, asked to be buried in his white belt to be remembered as a learner and not the black belt master that he was. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://randygravitt.com/are...
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...January 1, 2020The servant of Philon was an ancient Greek humanoid figure capable of automatically filling a wine cup when placed in its hand. It accomplished its task using a pneumatic system that was very advance...
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...February 14, 2020While playing a 3-minute blitz game of chess at the World Championships in 2019, grandmaster Magnus Carlsen wasted 20 seconds of his time taking his suit coat off, drinking water, and organizing his ...
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...June 27, 2019King Tut is the only mummy from ancient Egypt known to have been mummified with an erection. His member subsequently broke off soon after the mummy was discovered. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://www...
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...August 28, 2019There is an action park in Minnesota which allows you to drive military tanks and other army vehicles, smash junk cars, shoot machine guns and drive through trailer houses. – WTF Fun Facts Source: ...
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...September 10, 2019In the hours before he was assassinated, Martin Luther King Jr. started a pillow fight in the hotel room with other civil rights leaders. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://abcnews.go.com/US/86-andre...
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...October 12, 2019The webcam was invented because 3 faculty members at Cambridge University wanted to see the coffee levels in the break room so they didn't waste a trip there to find an empty pot. – WTF Fun Facts ...
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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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...October 2, 2019There are elevators in Singapore which are equipped with Urine Detection Devices. If triggered, the elevator will stop and the police are called. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.businessinsid...
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...January 7, 2020Jaguars have such powerful jaws that they kill their prey by biting into the brain directly through the skull. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.northernjaguarproject.org/ecology/about-the-jagua...
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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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...July 4, 2019Before refrigerators, Russians and Finns would put live brown frogs in their milk to keep it from spoiling. – WTF Fun FactsSource: http://discovermagazine.com/2014/may/27-milking-frog-skin
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...July 2, 2019A missing Indonesian woman was found clothed and entirely intact when local villagers dissected a 23 foot long reticulated python. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/indonesi...
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...October 11, 2019In Shanghai, you can get Coffee mellow, which is a coffee served with a cloud of cotton candy. The coffee vapor rises and dissolves the cotton candy which rains sugar into the cup. – WTF Fun Facts ...
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...June 12, 2019Urban 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 FactsSource: https...
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...July 21, 2019Carlos "White Feather" Hathcock was a legendary Vietnam War sniper who crawled for 3 days across 2000m of open field, killed a general with one shot, and then crawled back. He had over 93 confirmed k...
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...August 26, 2019The numbers on a roulette wheel when added together sum up to 666. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.casino.org/blog/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-a-roulette-wheel/
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...November 7, 2019An endangered parrot in New Zealand was only mating with people's heads, so they made as 'ejaculation helmet' for people to wear which would collect the bird's rare semen. – WTF Fun FactsSource: htt...
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...November 20, 2019The oceans are filled with giant tubular organisms that grow to the size of sperm whales. They are known as Pyrosomes or unicorns of the sea and can be nearly 60 ft in length. – WTF Fun Facts Source...
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...November 22, 2019In 2012, a Cleveland woman arrested for a traffic violation was ordered to share her crime by holding a sign for 2 days that read 'only an idiot would drive on the sidewalk to avoid a school bus.' –...
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...November 27, 2019Since 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 tha...
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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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...February 9, 2020In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian adventurer and scientist, sailed 5,000 miles across the Pacific in a handbuilt raft (known as the Kon-Tiki Expedition to prove the ancients could've accomplished ...
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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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...July 28, 2019A swarm of 20,000 bees once followed a car for two days because their queen was trapped inside the car. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.treehugger.com/animals/swarm-bees-follow-car-2-days-rescu...
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...August 29, 2019A man took his girlfriend on a tough, twisty 15-mile bicycling path that spelled out "marry me" when she checked her GPS map at the end of their ride. – WTF Fun FactsSource: https://mandipao.com/new...
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...September 3, 2019In 1981, a California doctor saved the life of a 3.2lb preemie baby boy. 30 years later,that doctor was involved in a car accident with a semi-truck and was saved by that baby, who became a paramedic...
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...October 21, 2019The Matrix production designer Simon Whiteley confirmed that the green falling code in the Matrix is loads of sushi recipes. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainme...
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...November 16, 2019There's a 2001 cult film called Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. The plot has a modern-day Jesus struggling to protect the lesbians of Ottowa, Ontario from vampire with the help of Mexican wrestler El ...
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...November 29, 2019Researchers taught rats how to gamble and they learned how to play it safe and maximize their 'winnings'. However, when they introduced flashing lights and sound they changed their behavior and went ...
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...August 16, 2019China has created a social credit score system for dog owners. You lose points for no leash, not cleaning up poop, or any other disturbance reports. Once you lose 12 points, you will temporarily lo...
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...November 20, 2019A 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 FactsSource: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/11...
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...July 10, 2019Penn & Teller created a video game in 1995 called 'Desert Bus'. In the game, the player drives an 8-hour bus route in real time between Tucson and Vegas. The scenery never changes from rocks and ...
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...November 17, 2019Muhammad Ali's star on the Hollywood walk of fame is not on the sidewalk. It is on the wall of Kodak/Dolby theater because of his request that the name of Muhammad not be walked on. – WTF Fun Facts ...
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...December 18, 2019Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent during the American Civil War that there was an honor code among soldiers: you couldn't shoot a man while he was defecating. – WTF Fun Facts Source...
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...January 27, 2020The red-lipped batfish or Galapagos batfish (Ogcocephalus darwini) have frowny-faces and giant red lips. They use their fins as feet to walk around the sea floor because they’re terrible swimmers. ...
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