Archaeologists found a gruesome and shocking discovery in Peru, 100 dead guinea pigs that were sacrificed by the Incan people during the 16th century, adorned with earrings, necklaces, and some wrapped in small rugs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/inca-guinea-pigs-ritual-sacrifice-jewelry-1392942
Kano 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-you-wearing-your-white-belt/
In a recent study, researchers found that less than half of 168 modern cultures engaged in romantic kissing. They found societies with distinct social classes are more likely to be kissers than those with fewer or no social classes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sapiens.org/culture/is-romantic-kissing-a-human-universal/
Maria Paraskeva of Cyprus fulfilled her childhood dream by wearing a lace veil that stretched 22,843 feet and 2.11 inches, or roughly 63.5 football fields which is a new Guinness world record. – WTF Fun Facts
A woman named Marijuana Pepsi, who refused to change her name, earned her Ph.D at age 46 after writing her thesis on “Black names in white classrooms: Teacher behaviors and student perceptions.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blavity.com/woman-named-marijuana-pepsi-who-refused-to-change-her-name-earns-her-phd-after-completing-dissertation-on-black-names?category1=news
The California sea hare, Aplysia californica, has a combination of defense mechanisms including the release of purple ink and opaline from glands. The ink acts as a smoke screen while the opaline confuses the predator and causes them to try to eat the ink cloud. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_sea_hare
A startup company and the Mongolian government are teaming together to create a new postal code system. They assign each 3 meter square piece of land three word postal code. There are enough words in the English dictionary to account for the 57 trillion 3-meter squares on Earth. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/19/482514949/welcome-to-mongolias-new-postal-system-an-atlas-of-random-words#Where
‘E’ is the most common letter and appears in 11% of all English words. It is nearly 57 times more likely to appear in a word than the letter ‘Q’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/letterfrequencies.html
Setenil de Las Bodegas is a place in Spain where 3,000 residents live, work, and play in a gorge beneath a huge,rocky outcropping – their homes are built into the rock underneath. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setenil_de_las_Bodegas