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In 1912, Jim Thorpe, an American Indian, won two Olympic gold medals with a mismatched pair of shoes taken from the garbage. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe

An endangered parrot in New Zealand was only mating with people's heads, so they made as 'ejaculation helmet' for people to wear which would collect the bird's rare semen. – WTF Fun FactsSource: htt...

During the Great Depression, a banker convinced families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares for $19 a piece. The town later became the single richest per capita in the USA with 67 millionai...

In 2012, Choi Gap-bok escaped from prison by squeezing his body through a 5.9" tall and 17.7" wide food slot when the guards were sleeping. He is a yoga practitioner and applied skin ointment to his ...

Viking's accidentally made a rudimentary form of steel when they tried to fuse the spirit of an animal or ancestor into a weapon. They would crush bones and fuse it into iron when forging weapons. ...

Avocados nearly went extinct 13,000 years ago after large animals like the mammoth and giant ground sloth went extinct. With no means of dispersing the seeds, it was left to early farmers to cultivat...

Some slaughterhouses use a 'Judas goat'. It's a trained goat that will calmly lead livestock to their slaughter while its own life is spared. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J...

In the remote Pilbara region of Australia, an aboriginal community built a train to carry their children to school. The train cars are made from metal barrels, and the locomotive is a tractor. – WTF ...

Tigers are orange in color because their main prey, deer, see them as green. Deer are only capable of seeing blue and green light, which makes them color-blind to red. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https...

Michael Jackson's hair caught on fire at the exact middle of his life, down to the day. He lived 18,565 days and on day 9,283 (Jan 27, 1984) his hair caught on fire during a Pepsi commercial shoot. ...