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The first artificial sweetener Saccharin was discovered on accident when chemist Dr. Constantine Fahlberg forgot to wash his hands after work and tasted something "unspeakably sweet" during dinner. H...

Trees have a theoretical maximum height of between 400 and 426 ft. and cannot grow taller due to the opposing force of gravity. They are unable to get water higher up the tree and the leaves at the t...

There is a museum of potatoe fries in Bruges, Belgium. The Frietmuseum is devoted to the history of potatoes and the production of Belgian fries. It traces the history of potatoes, beginning in Peru ...

President Jimmy Carter’s son James Earl “Chip” Carter III smoked weed with Willie Nelson on the roof of the White House during his father's presidency. – WTF Fun Facts Source: Willie Nelson’s Weed...

In old Nokia phones, the standard notification tone for an SMS (text message) was simply 'M' (for message) in Morse code. The “Special” tone when receiving an SMS was Morse code for “SMS”. – WTF Fun ...

In 2013, McDonald’s challenged celebrity chefs to deploy McDonald’s ingredients to create a “McGourmet” meal. Their creations ranged from kung pao Chicken McNuggets to slow-cooked beef with Mac Fry g...

Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of material to read. – WTF Fun Facts Source: Definition of abibliophobia, BuzzWord from Macmillan Dictionary

Despite dying in 1994, Kim Il-sung remains president of North Korea. The constitution was revised in 1998, declaring him 'Eternal President of the Republic'. As a result, North Korea became the only ...

 There is a tree called the Idiot Fruit tree which only occurs in Australia’s Daintree rainforest. It is also known as the green dinosaur due to it dating back over 100 million years. – WTF Fun Facts...

In the 1940s, one of the first female pregnancy tests (the “Hogben test”) involved injecting a woman's urine into a female frog's skin. If the woman was pregnant, then within 5-12 hours, the female f...