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After illegally demolishing the historic London pub Carlton Tavern (that survived the Blitz), a property developer was ordered by the courts to rebuild it "brick by brick." It's taken over 5 years an...

Pistol dueling was held at the 1908 Olympics. The competition involved two male competitors firing at each other with dueling pistols loaded with wax bullets and wearing protective equipment for the ...

Gold is the most malleable and ductile of all metals. Gold can be pounded into sheets less than four millionths of an inch thick. An ounce of gold can be drawn into a wire more than 40 miles long. – ...

Roughly 30-40% of Vietnamese people have the surname Nguyen. For comparison, the most popular surname in America is Smith, which is shared by only 0.8% of the population. – WTF Fun Facts Source: N...

Big Blue is one of the world’s largest crayons. It was made from 123,000 leftover blue crayons collected from kids all over the world. It weighs 1,500 pounds and is almost 16' long. – WTF F...

A 2011 study on lost remotes found that 49% of the time it was found in the couch, 8% found it in the bathroom, 8% in a dresser drawer, 4% in the fridge/freezer, and 2% percent found the remote outsi...

In 2019, John McCue, a 22-yr-old Canadian man, took it upon himself to fill potholes with a sign: "I filled the potholes. Pay me instead of your taxes." Drivers gave him cash, coffee, and joints for ...

Eccentric Brazilian billionaire Chiquinho Scarpa announced his plans to bury a $500k Bentley so he could drive it in the afterlife. After incredible outrage at his wastefulness, he announced on the d...

Florida resident Donald Watts was found by police rolling naked in a muddy ditch while making bird noises. After using 2 stun guns with no effect, officers called for a K9 backup which Watts imitated...

Lightning can heat the air (a very poor conductor of electricity) it passes through to 50,000° F, which is 5 times hotter than the surface of the sun. – WTF Fun Facts Source: https://www.weather.g...