A new alternative cancer treatment is being researched and involves injecting dead cells into the body. Preliminary studies show injecting dying cells into tumors helps the immune cells target the cancer. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65768-dying-cells-injection-cancer.html
From 007 movies Dr. No to Quantum of Solace, James Bond has killed 352 people and slept with 52 women. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/top10facts/502854/10-facts-about-James-Bond
There is only one single stop sign in Paris, France, which is located in the 16th arrondissement. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thelocal.fr/20121004/paris-only-has-one-stop-sign-police
There is over 4 million cubic yards of concrete in the Hoover Dam and power plant, which is enough to build a highway from the East coast to the West coast of the US. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.usbr.gov/lc/hooverdam/faqs/damfaqs.html
Ancient people in China practiced human head-shaping about 12,000 years ago. They bound growing children’s skulls in order to create a more elongated and oval shape. The reasoning and purpose of this practice is still unknown. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65901-china-oldest-skull-shaping.html
A 1700 year old baobab tree in Modjadjiskloof, South Africa had a 15-person full bar inside its 155 foot wide trunk called the Big Baobab Tree Bar. The bar closed and the tree eventually fell over in 2017. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://vinepair.com/articles/step-inside-the-south-african-bar-in-a-tree/
Hundreds of tiny islands, known as crannogs, around Scotland are actually man made and were constructed out of boulders, clay and timbers by Neolithic people about 5,600 years ago. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65728-neolithic-human-made-islands.html
The non-stick coating called Teflon, or polytetrafluoroethylene, was accidentally invented by Roy Plunkett while trying to create a new refrigerant. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.popsci.com/geckos-cant-stick-to-teflon/
Human composting, an alternative to traditional burying and cremation, will become legal in Washington state starting May 1, 2020. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65333-human-composting.html