Hoshizuna no Hama (“star sand beach”) is a small beach located on a remote island in Japan. The grains of sand found here are shaped like tiny stars. It’s not really sand but the exoskeletons of tiny one-celled organisms, called Baclogypsina sphaerulata. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The Star Sand Beach of Hoshizuna-no-hama | Amusing Planet
Garfield phones have been washing up on Northern Finistere beaches in France for over 30 years. A shipping container fell off the cargo ship in a storm and ended up wedged in a nearby underwater cave. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/garfield-phones-mystery-devices-washing-up-on-beaches-france/
A family taking a walk on a beach in Wales found a message in a bottle thrown into the ocean by a German couple 1,624 miles away and nearly four years earlier. – WTF Fun Facts
Giant snowballs along a Siberian beach – WTF fun fact
