Maria Paraskeva of Cyprus fulfilled her childhood dream by wearing a lace veil that stretched 22,843 feet and 2.11 inches, or roughly 63.5 football fields which is a new Guinness world record. – WTF Fun Facts
Weird
This is our weird but true facts category. These may be a little odd and a little strange, but they are all most definitely true facts! If you are looking for weird fun facts then start scrolling!
WTF Fun Fact – Blue, Green, Grue
In some cultures and languages, the colors described in English as blue and green are colexified, or expressed using a single cover term. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language
WTF Fun Fact – Human-Monkey Hybrid
In 2019, the world’s first human-monkey hybrid was created in China. Scientists injected human stem cells into the monkey embryo to create the animal-human hybrid. The experiment was stopped before the birth. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/human-monkey-hybrid-china-organ-transplant-stem-cells-embryo-a9037506.html
WTF Fun Fact – Flatworm Selfing
Flatworms have male and female sets of genitalia, and if they can’t find a flatworm to mate with, they will inseminate themselves by stabbing their head with their needle-like copulatory organ, a practice known as selfing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/this-flatworms-freaky-sex-life-will-freak-you-out/
WTF Fun Facts – Shingon Monks Sokushinbutsu
There were Shingon Monks who successfully mummified themselves alive via a practice called Sokushinbutsu, meaning “a Buddha in this very body”. Only 24 such mummifications have been discovered to date. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
WTF Fun Fact – Victoria Secret Mosquito Repellent
A 2015 research study on the efficiency of mosquito repellents found that Victoria’s Secret’s Bombshell perfume actually repelled mosquito’s better than nearly all the other non-DEET products. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/mosquitoes-repelled-by-victorias-secret-perfume-2015-11
WTF Fun Fact – British Passport In French
Up until 1858, all British Passports were written in French. The International Civil Aviation Organisation standard today recommends that, where the language of the issuing state is English, French or Spanish, they should supplement with one of the other languages. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Bigfoot And Dogs
The anthropologist Grover Krantz, who was infamous for believing in Bigfoot’s existence, donated his body to the Smithsonian on the condition his dogs were kept close to him. The museum honored his request. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://remains417.rssing.com/chan-35265043/all_p3.html
WTF Fun Fact – Upside Down Pineapple
An upside down pineapple in your grocery cart, or as a bumper sticker, or an upside down door knocker indicates the person is into swinging. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://onairwithryan.iheart.com/featured/ryan-seacrest/content/2019-01-11-do-you-know-what-an-upside-down-pineapple-means-tanya-tests-it-out-/
WTF Fun Fact – Physiggoomai
The ancient Greek word for a person aroused by garlic is Physiggoomai. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Anthropology & Earwax
Anthropologists can partly determine the ancestral routes of different people and how those ancestors got to where their descendants now live by examining earwax. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/29620/determining-migratory-patterns-early-humans-%E2%80%94-earwax
WTF Fun Fact – Professor Fails Everyone & Quits
A professor at Texas A&M Galveston failed his entire class and quit, because he thought that all of his students were disruptive or dishonest and therefore didn’t deserve to pass the course. This was his worst in his 20 years of teaching. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.click2houston.com/news/professor-at-texas-am-galveston-fails-entire-class
WTF Fun Fact – French Meowing Nuns
In 1844, there was a case of hysteria in a French convent of nuns. One started meowing and after a week all the nuns were meowing harmoniously in the afternoons. It didn’t stop until neighbors called soldiers. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://archive.org/details/epidemicsofmiddl1844heck/
WTF Fun Fact – Koumpounophobia
Koumpounophobia is the fear of buttons. Steve Jobs was afraid of buttons and therefore wore turtlenecks and a number of Apple’s product designs are button-less because of his aversion. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/apples-steve-jobs-hates-buttons/
WTF Fun Fact – Koro Epidemic
There is a well documented Koro (or genital retraction syndrome) epidemic that occurred in Singapore in late 1967.Men believed they were going to die from their penis shrinking after eating bad pork. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://theindependent.sg/the-day-the-shrinking-penis-epidemic-struck-singapore/
WTF Fun Fact – Consummated Or Not?
A recent UK survey found that more than half of couples do not consummate the marriage on their wedding night, primarily because the groom is too drunk. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Space Headache
In space, the zero gravity causes all your bodily fluids to move towards your head. This can often cause a headache which can best be alleviated by urinating.– WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Survival Tip
Lying flat on your back with arms and legs spread is your best bet for surviving a falling elevator. – WTF Fun Facts