Adermatoglyphia, or immigration delay disease, is a genetic mutation that causes people to be born without fingerprints. Worldwide it affects only 4 known extended families. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110809-fingerprints-skin-disease-health-science-weird/
Pop singer Ke$ha was born with a vestigial tail that was later removed and ‘stolen’ from her. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.medpagetoday.com/blogs/celebritydiagnosis/40826
The chemical vinblastine which helps fight a number of different
cancers is made from the dried leaves of the Madagascar periwinkle. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321726.php
In the 15th and 16th centuries, the English sweating sickness epidemics killed thousands of people and then the disease disappeared. The contagious disease came on suddenly and could kill within hours. The cause and disease itself remains unknown. – WTF Fun Facts
Charles Osborne holds the record for the ‘longest bout of hiccups’ – 68 years. He hiccuped up to 40 times a minute in the first couple decades but they slowed to 20 a minute as he got older. Doctors estimated he hiccuped nearly 600,000,000 times in his lifetime.
– WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://priceonomics.com/the-man-who-hiccuped-for-68-years/
Immersion in India’s Ganges river is believed by many to purify them of their sins despite being one of the world’s most polluted rivers. Microbiologists have found more an two dozen or more bacteriophages that could naturally provide a non-antibiotic treatment to a number of deadly diseases.
Source: https://www.cntraveler.com/story/the-healing-power-of-indias-ganges-river