A study found that each year arthropods (like millipedes, spiders and ants) eat over 2,100 pounds of junk food discarded in New York City’s Broadway/West St. corridor in Manhattan. That’s the equivalent of 60,000 hot dogs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/3039379/new-york-ants-eat-the-equivalent-of-60000-hot-dogs-a-year-in-food-we-drop
The Colombian river Cano Cristales is commonly called the River of Five Colors or Liquid Rainbow because of its striking colors. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20190320-colombias-river-of-five-colours
Your tooth enamel is harder than a lobster’s shell or a rhino’s horn. It’s even harder than steel. It’s made of mineralized calcium phosphate, which is the hardest substance a living being can produce. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_enamel
In Germany, those who urinate in the streets are known as wildpinklers, meaning “free pee-ers”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thelocal.de/20151127/cologne-wards-off-drunks-with-walls-that-pee-back
IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD) in September 1956. The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://ed-thelen.org/RAMAC/Myths.html
During the Great Depression, a banker convinced families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares for $19 a piece. The town later became the single richest per capita in the USA with 67 millionaires. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-town-of-cocacola-millionaires-quincy-florida
In 1955, the Zion Meat Company held a beauty pageant during their national hot dog week and declared Geene Courtney the Sausage Queen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.littlethings.com/funny-bizarre-beauty-queens-1950s-1960s/1
China is the world’s largest mobile games market, accounting for over 25 per cent of global revenue. Domestic games revenue in China is expected to reach a staggering total of $42 billion by 2022. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-08-chinas-games-market-expected-to-reach-usd42-billion-by-2022
When Steve Madden, founder and CEO of the footwear company, was convicted of fraud and forced to resign, he created a new consultant position for himself that paid him $700k a year while in prison. – WTF Fun Facts