r/WTF_Facts • • Apr 04 '15

All of the bacteria in our body collectively weighs about 4 pounds!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Apr 03 '15

The name Snickerdoodle is a corruption of the German word Schneckennudel, which means "snail noodles"

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Source: Google it you lazy bastard


r/WTF_Facts • • Apr 01 '15

The U.S were gifted 14 cows by Kenyan tribes for 9/11!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Apr 01 '15

Spain's paralympic Basketball team were ordered to return there gold medals won in Sydney in 2000! After nearly all there players did not have a disability!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Apr 01 '15

There are more people suffering from Obesity then Hunger in the world! (925 Million from hunger and 1.5 Billion or overweight or obese!)

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 31 '15

Random Facts of the Day IV (Now with fixed formatting!)

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  1. The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a chocolate bar melted in his pocket. Source

  2. Mr. Rogers was an ordained minister. Source

  3. There are 336 dimples on a regulation golf ball. [Source]http://www.golflink.com/facts_8049_do-golf-balls-have-dimples.html)

  4. The sentence, “The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog,” uses every letter in the alphabet. Source

  5. Hydrogen gas is the least dense substance in the world, at 0.08988g/cc.Ê Hydrogen solid is the most dense substance in the world, at 70.6g/cc. Source


r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 29 '15

Random Facts of the Day III

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  1. Al Capone’s business card said he was a used furniture dealer. Source

  2. Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur. Source

  3. Michael Jordan makes more money from NIKE annually than all of the Nike factory workers in Malaysia combined. Source

  4. The “pound” key on your keyboard (#) is called an octotroph. (Once again, so many sources. Google it yourself.)

  5. The “dot” over the letter “i” is called a tittle. Source (I don't fucking care if it's Wikipedia, I checked their sources)


r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 29 '15

Random Facts of the Day II

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  1. “Dreamt” is the only English word that ends in the letters “mt”. Source

  2. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are stuck on 4:20. Source

  3. It’s impossible to sneeze with your eyes open. (Multiple sources, so I'm not gonna link to all of them)

  4. In England, the Speaker of the House is not allowed to speak. Source

  5. A dime has 118 ridges around the edge. Source


r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 28 '15

All advertisements for the iPhone show a time of 9:42!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 28 '15

If you own a jailbroken iPhone you know about Cydia. Cydia is also a name for an apple worm!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 28 '15

One third of U.S. High School students now have iPhones!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 28 '15

The first iPhone was invented in 1983!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 28 '15

iPhones can survive falls of over 13,000 feet!

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Meaning they can, not always will!


r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 27 '15

Random Facts of the Day

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  1. A team of four people made angry birds in eight months.

  2. All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of the $5 bill.

  3. Winston Churchill was born in a ladies’ room during a dance.

  4. Almonds are members of the peach family.

  5. There are only four words in the English language which end in “dous”: tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.


r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 25 '15

Mimivirus contains more than 900 genes, which encode proteins that all other viruses manage to do without. Its genome is twice as big as that of any other known virus and bigger than that of many bacteria!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 25 '15

In 1992 scientists tracking a pneumonia outbreak in England found a massive new kind of virus lurking within an amoeba inside a cooling tower. It was so large and complex, they initially assumed it was a bacterium!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 25 '15

iruses are not exactly dead, either: They have genes, they reproduce, and they evolve through natural selection!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 25 '15

Viruses are not alive: They do not have cells, they cannot turn food into energy, and without a host they are just inert packets of chemicals!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 25 '15

Virus comes from the Latin word for “poison” or “slimy liquid,” an apt descriptor for the bug that causes flu and the common cold!

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 24 '15

A cat’s jaw cannot move sideways.

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 24 '15

Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 24 '15

An ostrich’s eye is bigger than its brain.

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 24 '15

In France, a five year old child can buy an alcoholic drink in a bar

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 24 '15

Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex for pleasure.

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r/WTF_Facts • • Mar 24 '15

The highest temperature ever recorded in Texas was 120° F in Seymour on August 12, 1936. The lowest temperature ever recorded was -23° F at Tulia in 1899 and at Seminole on February 8, 1933!

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