World of Facts

01/11/2024

01/11/2024

There's an Association of Dead People in India, protesting after losing their land to relatives who have corrupt officials declare them dead

01/11/2024

A National Geographic researcher got lost in a rain forest in Borneo. He found an orangutan being rehabilitated by his camp, which safely guided him back.

01/09/2024

Betty Robinson, an Olympic runner, was involved in a plane crash in 1931 and was wrongly pronounced dead upon first being discovered. She spent 7 months in a coma and it took her 2 years to learn to walk normally again. In 1936, she returned to the US Olympic team and won gold in the relay.

10/28/2023

Bill Gates once released mosquitos during a Ted Talk, stating that "poor people shouldn't be the only ones to have this experience."

10/14/2023

The feral puppies in Chernobyl are radioactive.

10/14/2023

The Library of Congress pays to reproduce popular magazines in Braille.

10/12/2023

According to a 2017 survey, "whatever" tops the list of words Americans find most annoying for the ninth year in a row.

10/12/2023

Honey hunters in Mozambique use special calls to recruit the services of birds known as honeyguides. The birds lead the humans to bees' nests and in return, they get the leftover beeswax.