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!
Saddam Hussein commissioned a calligrapher to write a copy of the Qur’an using vials of Saddam’s blood. It took over two years and is known as the Blood Qur’an. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/dec/19/saddam-legacy-quran-iraqi-government
The Aztec’s created a whistle in the shape of skulls called a death whistle. It produces a horrifying sound but its exact purpose is unknown. Experts think they may have been used during battle or as part of sacrificial ceremonies. – WTF Fun Facts
There are over 100 words in Hawaiian that are made up of only vowels. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1802&context=wordways
Quirkyalone is a term for people who enjoy being alone and single while waiting for the right person, instead of casually dating. – WTF Fun Facts
A full human cadaver for research costs roughly $500. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/facts-about-cadavers-2012-6
Asphalt pavements are America’s most recycled product. Reclaimed asphalt pavement can be reused to make as high or higher quality pavement the next time. It can be recycled repeatedly and neither the aggregate nor the cement lose utility. – WTF Fun Facts
There is a litigation defense strategy used by authors when defaming people dubbed ‘the small penis rule’. The author, when describing a character, will add that they have a small penis, assuming that nobody would sue them for libel and admit to having a small penis. – WTF Fun Facts
A London commuter received a settlement of over $32,000 from Network Rail after they “possibly” slipped on pigeon poop at Paddington train station. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-49256251
If you pick up two objects at the same time that have the same weight but are different sizes, the larger object will seem lighter. This phenomenon is known as the Size–Weight Illusion. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0042518
An acersecomic is a person who has never had a haircut in their life. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wordsandphrasesfromthepast.com/bull-blog/acersecomic
There’s a fiction-based religion called Snapeism which has Snapewives or Snapeists who channel Snape, are in romantic relationships with him, and use him as a guide for their daily lives. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/5/1/219/htm
Palm trees are not trees at all and belong to the grass family. Botanists define trees as woody plants with secondary growth. Palms lack both of these. They create their tough, “wood” epidermis through primary thickening and lignification. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.theearthconnection.org/blog/2014/01/palm-trees-not-trees-after-all/
Human composting, an alternative to traditional burying and cremation, will become legal in Washington state starting May 1, 2020. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65333-human-composting.html
There is a colorless and odorless liquid you can breathe in which is called perfluorohexane. Animals can be submerged in it without drowning. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfluorohexane
Glossy magazines are radioactive. They are made with a white clay called kaolin which contains elevated levels of uranium and thorium. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/magazines.htm
In 2012, at a pop up shop in London’s St. Bart’s Pathology Museum, STD decorated cupcakes were showcased in an effort to promote safe sex. The cupcakes feature scabs, boils, green-colored genital discharge and warts. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2012/10/09/std-cupcakes-cancer-cookies-and-marshmallow-brain-created-by-baker-596315/
The original ‘friendship tree’ between US President Trump and French President Macron died in quarantine once uprooted after the ceremonial planting. Macron is sending a replacement oak tree. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48607423
French artist, Gentil Garçon, worked with a paleontologist, François Escuilié, to create a skull of the pellet-gobbling video game icon, Pac Man. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/02/14/real-life-pac-man-skull_n_1275989.html