The Vermont Novelty Toaster Corporation sells a “selfie toaster” that will print your selfie onto a piece of toast. You upload a photo with your order and you will receive a toaster that can print it. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.burntimpressions.com/collections/the-very-last-selfie-toasters
Never Never Land was a name used to describe parts of the vast, remote area of the Australian outback. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Never_Never_(Australian_outback)
In 1999, the Philippine island of Luzon, home to the capital, Manila, and ~40 million people lost power for an entire night due to jellyfish. Roughly 50 dump trucks’ worth of jellyfish had been sucked into the cooling pipes of a coal-fired power plant, causing a cascading power failure. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/jellyfish-the-next-king-of-the-sea-679915/
An eggcorn is a word or phrase that is a seemingly logical alteration of another word or phrase that sounds similar, but has been misheard or misinterpreted. An example of an eggcorn is ‘old wise tale’ for ‘old wives’ tale’. – WTF Fun Facts
The Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) ranked the sweet potato the highest in nutrition out of all vegetables. With a score of 184, the sweet potato’s score is more than double the next highest vegetable. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.foodreference.com/html/sweet-pot-nutrition.html
The land which connected Britain to continental Europe is called Doggerland. It was flooded by rising sea levels around 6500–6200 BC. It was given this name in the 1990s, after the Dogger Bank, which in turn was named after the 17th century Dutch fishing boats called doggers. – WTF Fun Facts
British company Spacebit plans to send a spider robot to the moon in 2021. They will eventually send multiple spiders to map the existing lava tubes using LIDAR to help make plans to build lunar bases for permanent human colonies. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/we-are-sending-spider-robots-to-the-moon-in-2021
One of the oldest photographs in existence of a US President (John Quincy Adams) was discovered when it was bought for 50 cents in an antique shop in the 1970’s. President Adams himself described the photo as hideous. – WTF Fun Facts
Narnia was an actual place in Italy but it is now known as Narni. C.S. Lewis saw the name on an early 20th century atlas and included it in his book series. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narni#Narnia_and_C._S._Lewis