There exists a variant of polo with elephants. Elephant polo is played in Nepal, India, and Thailand. They play on a slightly smaller field with each elephant having two riders. A standard polo ball is used along with a ~10 ft. cane pole with a mallet head on the end. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Elephant polo – Wikipedia
A team of 20 sherpas cleaned up and removed 11 metric tons of garbage and four dead bodies from Mt. Everest in April and May of 2019. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/11-000-kg-garbage-four-dead-bodies-removed-from-mt-everest-in-two-month-long-cleanliness-drive-1543470-2019-06-06
There’s a type of honey called mad honey which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make the dangerous vertical climb to harvest it because it sells for up to $80 a pound. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/honey-hunters-bees-climbing-nepal/
Two Nepali men paraglided off of the summit of Mount Everest – WTF fun facts
Mt. Everest shrank one inch due to the Nepal earthquake – WTF fun facts
