J.R.R. Tolkien was nominated by fellow author CS Lewis for the 1961 Nobel Prize in Literature, but was overlooked because the jury said the quality of his storytelling wasn’t good enough. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/jan/05/jrr-tolkien-nobel-prize
Penn & Teller created a video game in 1995 called ‘Desert Bus’. In the game, the player drives an 8-hour bus route in real time between Tucson and Vegas. The scenery never changes from rocks and road signs and once the player reaches the destination, they have to turn around and drive back. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/desert-bus-the-very-worst-video-game-ever-created
In 1989, Russian psychic E. Frenkel was run over by a train while attempting to stop it with his psychic-biological power, after previously ‘successfully’ stopping a car and streetcar.
The pupils of human eyes are at their largest as an adolescent and then slowly shrink until about the age of 60.
A study found that sleeping on your stomach is the most likely position to produce an erotic dream.
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In Connecticut, a pickle cannot legally be considered a pickle unless it bounces when dropped from the height of 1 foot.
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Former Indoneisan President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono released three pop albums while he was President, including “I’m Certain I’ll Make It”.
Filipino style spaghetti uses hot dogs instead of meatballs and uses banana catsup instead of maranara sauce.
8 million years ago, an evolutionary cousin of the guinea pig (phoberomys pattersoni) was the size of a cow and is the largest rodent to ever roam the world.