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The percontation point, a reversed question mark and later referred to as a rhetorical question mark, was proposed by Henry Denham in the 1580s and was used at the end of a question that does not req...

In 1524, a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, was accused of being a witch. They put it on trial by water and threw it in the Dvina river. Since the wooden statue floated, th...

Research has found cleaner air has boosted U.S. corn and soybean yields by an estimated 20% over the last 20 years. The reduction in pollution has resulted in an increase of ~$5 billion per year. – W...

If you rub fresh garlic on the soles of your feet, about an hour later you can actually taste the garlic. This is because the molecule that causes garlic's smell, allicin, is small enough to penetrat...

Vikings fed their wounded soldiers a strong onion soup to help gauge how deep a stomach wound was. After a few minutes, they would smell the wound and if they could smell the onion soup, they knew th...

In 1997, hydrophones captured the "Bloop," which was one of the loudest underwater sounds ever recorded and could be heard more than 3,000 miles away. It's origin was a mystery for years until scient...

Pitcairn island is a small volcanic island in the Pacific that was founded by mutineers from the HMS Bounty in 1789. Today it has a population of ~50. – WTF Fun Facts Source: Pitcairn Islands - Wi...

In 2017, a KFC "spacecraft" brought a Kentucky Fried Chicken Zinger sandwich into space aboard a high-altitude balloon, where it stayed for four days before returning to Earth. – WTF Fun Facts Sou...

Roberto Solis was sentenced to life in prison in 1969 for murdering an armored truck driver. He became a successful poet in prison under an alias which led multiple popular writers to petition for hi...