WTF Fun Fact – Mathematics Of Babylonians
Ancient Babylonians used a sexagesimal (base-60) positional number system instead of base-10. That’s why we have 60 seconds in a … Read More & Source
History
Weird history facts all gathered right here under our history category!
WTF Fun Fact – Starved In A Room Full Of Seeds
During the siege of Leningrad, a group of Russian botanists from the Institute of Plant Industry locked themselves into a … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – FDA Official Frances Kelsey Vs Thalidomide
Frances Kelsey, and FDA official, saved the US from a generation of children with birth defects such as flipper-like arms … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – French Royalty Public Birth
French royalty used to give birth in front of many other noble people, valets, and guards to ensure that the … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Citizenship Cancelled After Marriage
Under the US act of March 2, 1907, all women acquired their husband’s nationality upon marriage, meaning U.S.-born citizen women … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Captain John Philip Cromwell
WWII submarine Captain John P. Cromwell went down with his crippled submarine Sculpin after surfacing and letting crewmembers abandon ship. … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – The Cadaver Synod
In January 897, Pope Formosus’s corpse was put on trial and found guilty in what became known as the Cadaver … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – Bioplastic Ford
Ford Motor Company started using bioplastics back in the 1930’s. Ford’s 1941 biological car was made of soybean, wheat, hemp, … Read More & Source
WTF Fun Fact – White Elephant Gift Exchange
The “white elephant” gift exchange gets its name from the legend of the King of Siam gifting rare albino elephants … Read More & Source