37 Bizarre WTF Facts That'll Take Your Mind Somewhere Strange

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Feb 10, 2018 6:00 PM EST

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    Coca-cola - WTF fun fact #8395 Coca-Cola was accused of hiring hitmen from a prominent paramilitary group between 1990 and 2002 to kill at least 10 trade union leaders. Coca-Cola
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    Text - WTF fun fact #8401 Students with the highest GPAS tend to score lowest on measures of creativity and independence. Test CAT
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    Breadfruit - WTF fun fact #8404| The avocado industry in Mexico is so big that the Mexican cartel for years took over farms through extortion. But the city of Tancítaro, the world capital of avocado production, took back their farms back by arming their citizens, building their own police, and bulletproofing their trucks.
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    Text - WTF fun fact # 8402 Prisoners in Paris were offered freedom if they married prostitutes and moved to Louisiana
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    Brain - WTF fun fact #8407 People with high IQs tend to appreciate dark humor more. AniLay
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    Heat - WTF fun fact #8410 Following the Trinity nuclear test in New Mexico, a blind woman 150 miles from the site asked, "What's that brilliant light?"
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    Face - WTF fun fact #8405 Ambivert is the balance between introvert and extrovert.
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    Scarf - WTF fun fact # 8394 A woman who was able to smell Parkinson's disease. In a study she was able to accurately identify 11/12 patients with Parkinson's. And not a year later the last patient was also diagnosed, making her record 12/12.
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    Text - Fact #1020 FactRepublic.com In 2013, a Chinese mountaineer named Zhang Jingchuan became the sole survivor of a Taliban execution at a 13,000-foot base camp in Pakistan. He knocked an attacker, sprinted 100 feet, jumped off a cliff and rolled into a ravine. Barefoot and wearing only thermal underwear, he hid there for an hour. Later, he snuck back into the tent to get a jacket and a satellite phone, hiked to safety and called the local emergency line.
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    People - Fact #314 FactRepublic.com 30% of Americans don't drink alcohol at all, 60% drink less than 1 drink a week. The top 10% drink 74 drinks a week.
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    Text - Fact #217 A FactRepublic.com Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker in the Force Awakens was the same age as Alec Guinness was playing Obi-Wan Kenobi in the original Star Wars.
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    Text - WTF fun fact #8398 Being forgetful is not only normal, it makes you smarter. The main function of memory is to improve decision making, and forgetting irrelevant details helps you to be more intelligent and make informed decisions.
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    Text - Fact #975 FactRepublic.com Alan Alda has been married for 60 years and has three daughters. He met his wife at a mutual friend's dinner party and they bonded when a rum cake accidentally fell onto the kitchen floor and they were the only two guests who did not hesitate to eat it.
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    Finger - WTF fun fact # 8392 Patients respond significantly better to placebo medications when told that they cost $1500 a pill.
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    Text - WTF fun fact # 8391| Lonely and depressed people are more likely to binge-watch television.
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    Indoor games and sports - the rema Fact #1018 FactRepublic.com In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue made a completely counter-intuitive move against chess player Garry Kasparov. The move was so bizarre (because it was random) he thought the computer was 1000 moves ahead and had already won. He realized it was so advanced he never had a chance, so he basically gave up and lost the match. It was later revealed that a bug caused the computer to make that move at random.
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    Natural foods - WTF fun fact #8391 The Stickers that supermarkets use on fruits are completly edible. Even the glue holding the stickers to the fruits is food grade.
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    Hair - WTF fun fact # 83 The Han Dynasty was founded by a sheriff who was transporting convicts when several escaped. Knowing the punishment for this was death, he freed the rest and organized many into a rebel band, eventually going on to help overthrow the ruling Qin Dynasty and install himself as Emperor.
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    Photo caption - 8RMC 2 LIZ PHAIR 3 CRYSTAL Fact #319 'ai FactRepublic.com The band Jet's second album was rated a 0.0 out of 10 by Pitchfork magazine and in lieu of writing a review, a YouTube video of a monkey urinating into his own mouth put up on their site
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    Album cover - WTF fun fact #8397 Hitler's doctor, Theodor Morell, kept a medical diary of the drugs and other substances he ministered to the Führer on a daily basis, such as; Atropine, Caffeine, Cocaine, Adrenaline, E. coli, Methamphetamine, Strychnine, Morphine, Heroin and Testosterone.
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    Font - MELTING GLACIERS AND ICEBERGS MAKE A DISTINCTIVE FIZZING NOISE KNOWN AS "BERGY SELTZER imgflip.com
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    Landmark - THE TOPOF THE EIFFEL TOWER LEANS AWAY FROM THE SUN AS THE METAL FACING THE SUN HEATS UP AND EXPANDS. IT CAN MOVE AS MUCH AS 7 INCHES imgflip.com
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    Text - Fact #323 FactRepublic.com On the same day (July 9, 1962) James Van Allen announced his discovery of the "Van Allen" radiation belt, he agreed to help the US military nuke it to see what happened. It was described by historian James Fleming as the first time "someone discovered something and immediately decided to blow it up".
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    Technology - Fact #952 FactRepublic.com The US Navy replaced expensive and clunky periscope controls on submarines with Xbox 360 controllers, which reduced training time from hours to minutes.
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    Text - WTF fun fact #8395 Lincoln was famous for his self-deprecating sense of humor. When accused of being two-faced, Lincoln replied, "Honestly, if I were two-faced, would I be showing you this one?"
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    fun fact - Text - Fact #972 FactRepublic.com When Diogenes, the ancient Greek philosopher, noticed a prostitute's son throwing rocks at a crowd, he said, "Careful, son. Don't hit your father."
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    Photo caption - Fact #324 FactRepublic.com Actress Mercedes McCambridge who dubbed the voice of the demon in The Exorcist |swallowed raw eggs, chain smoked and drank| whiskey to make her voice harsh. She was bound to a chair during recordings and requested no credit for the film.
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    fun fact - Chin - Fact #309 FactRepublic.com | Aaron Greenspan, a tech wizard who shared the same dorm with Mark Zuckerberg, built a Facebook-y site long before Facebook was built, but was (allegedly) given no credit when he claims (with documented proof) that Zuckerberg took inspiration from and copied off his product to build Facebook.
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    fun fact - Text - Fact #1017 FactRepublic.com Along with the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the Bombing of Tokyo was just as bad but often overlooked. Over 100,000 people were killed, several times that number injured, and 1,000,000 displaced in a napalm-filled, incendiary bomb attack by 334 low-flying B-29 bombers.
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    fun fact - Eyebrow - WTF fun fact #8400 You get red eyes in pictures because your pupil is just a hole and the flash reflects the blood in the back of your eyes
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    fun fact - Text - WTF fun fact #8401 Children develop the ability to see through lies when they are about seven years old. (6
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    fun fact - Text - Z3 z2 OPRE 31 THE LONGEST TIMEBETWEEN TWO TWINS BEING BORNIS87 DAYS Lmgiip com 123RF
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    fun fact - Text - Fact #321 FactRepublic.com In 2014 original "Top Model" winner Adrianne Curry fended off an attacker with a bull whip while dressed as Catwoman at San Diego Comic Con.
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    fun fact - Text - Fact #978 FactRepublic.com Hitler's deputy Rudolph Hess spent the last 20 years of his life as the sole prisoner in a jail designed to hold 600 inmates. After Hess finally died in 1987 at a very old age, the British Military authorities had the prison torn down so it would not become any type of shrine to Fascism. Hess's grave was also torn down in 2011 due to the fact that it became a shrine for Neo-Nazis.
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    fun fact - Photo caption - MOST MUPPETSARELEFT-HANDED(BECAUSE MOST MUPPETEERSARE RIGHT-HANDED,SOTHEY OPERATE THE HEAD WITH THEIR FAVOURED HAND. imgflip.com
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    Transport - Fact #329 Nestle Good Food, Good Life FactRepublic.com In 1866, two separate entrepreneurs started competing for milk companies in Switzerland. By 1905, when both men were dead, the two companies merged to become Nestle. Net
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    fun fact - People - RANCISO SAN POLICE IN 1993, SAN FRANCISCO HELD A REFERENDUM OVER WHETHER A POLICE OFFICER CALLED BOB GEARY WAS ALLOWED TO PATROL WHILE CARRYING A VENTRILOQUISTS DUMMY CALLED BRENDAN O'SMARTY. HE WAS imgflip.com Chronicle Timothy Ba t
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