12 wild things that you may have forgotten actually happened in 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail It's been a long year. With all the constant news, it's felt like 2020 has lasted at least a decade and officially overstayed its welcome. And amid all the nightmarish headlines, there were some weird things that happened. No one's blaming you if you don't remember all the bizarre happenings of 2020. Here are 12 weird, interesting and off-putting things that happened in 2020 that we all forgot about. January: "World War 3" started trending two days in January 1st, 2020: January 2nd, 2020: So I guess World War 3 is happening— Brandon Calvillo (@BJCalvillo) January 3, 2020 After U.S. airstrikes killed Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, "World War 3" started trending on Twitter, making for an auspicious start to the year. We avoided a full-scale world war, but if only we knew what was actually coming.