There is a road in Sweden that charges electric cars as they drive on it. The project is called eRoadArlanda and works in rain or snow as well. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://eroadarlanda.com/about-the-project/
Fun Fact – Electric Road In Sweden
facts
Fun Fact – Door knobs banned in Vancouver
The city of Vancouver has banned doorknobs on all new home construction. They must instead use levers. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/why-vancouvers-ban-on-doorknobs-makes-sense-2013-11?r=US&IR=T
Fun Fact – Titanic Tours
In 2020, OceanGate will begin tours of the Titanic via their private submarine Titan at a cost of $125,000 per person. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/worlds-first-deep-diving-submarine-plans-tourists-see-titanic-180972179/
Fun Fact – Superhuman heart rate
Retired Spanish cyclist Miguel Induráin had a resting heart rate of 28 beats per minute during his career. The normal range for people is 60 – 72 BPM. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_Indur%C3%A1in
Fun Fact Supreme’s Ironic Logo
The skating brand Supreme‘s logo is ironically based on propaganda artist Barbara Kruger’s anti-consumerism works. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.complex.com/style/2013/05/supreme-court-the-12-greatest-moments-of-supremes-legal-battle-with-leah-mcsweeney/132
Fun Fact – Trufulla trees are real
There was an actual tree in La Jolla which inspired Dr. Seuss’s Trufulla trees in his book The Lorax. The ~100 year old Monterey Cypress unexpectedly fell over in June 2019. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.lajolla.com/article/dr-seuss-la-jolla/
Food Fact – Americans eat billions of hot dogs
Americans eat 20 billion hot dogs annually, which is about 70 hot dogs per person. They are served in 95% of American homes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://hot-dog.org/
Animal Fact – Creative shark thieves
Thieves stole a small horn shark from the San Antonio Aquarium using a baby stroller to smuggle the shark out. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/thieves-snatch-shark-san-antonio-aquarium-wheel-it-out-baby-n895956
Fun Fact – Wyoming is sooo flat
There are only two sets of escalators in the entire state of Wyoming. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2013/07/18/203361119/where-are-all-of-wyomings-escalators