The world’s rarest cheese, Pule, is made from donkey milk. Many thought it impossible to make cheese out of donkey’s milk because the liquid doesn’t coagulate. However, the Serbian cheesemonger Slobodan Simić found a solution and now sells his cheese for over $500 per pound. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Donkey cheese is the most expensive cheese in the world at £880 per kilo | Metro News
A Harvard research study found that having no friends is as deadly as smoking. Researchers discovered a link between loneliness and an increase in the levels of a blood-clotting protein known as fibrinogen which can cause heart attacks and strokes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Study Shows Having No Friends ‘As Deadly As Smoking’ (newsweek.com)
Cheerios were first called “Cheerioats” when first introduced on May 1, 1941. However, Quaker Oates later objected to the name and General Mills made the change in 1945. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Cheerios – Wikipedia
Some Inuit groups used ridicule in the form of song duels as a means of conflict resolution. Two men who had failed to resolve a conflict by other means would compose derisive songs about the other. The whole camp gathered to observe the song duel and pick a winner. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Settling Our Differences Through Song? | The Toombs Take (psu.edu)
For over a year in the mid-2000s, members of the group Untergunther broke into the French Pantheon and repaired a clock which had been broken for 40 years. They were later taken to court for their efforts and eventually let off with a warning. In 2018, one of the members, clock restorer Jean-Baptiste Viot, was hired to repair it after it was further neglected. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Secret French illegal clock restorer gets the job (connexionfrance.com)
“Chess boxing” is a sport where players alternate between rounds of chess and boxing until either competitor is checkmated, knocked out, or technically knocked out. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Chess boxing – Wikipedia
The residents of the Spanish village Villar de Corneja near Avila, where the average age is 75, ring the New Year in at noon in a collective decision to get to bed at a decent hour. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Spain: Village Villar de Corneja celebrates New Year at 12 noon (newsbeezer.com)
Certain types of fig are male and female and so require a special breed of wasp to pollinate the females. The female wasp crawls inside through a hole so narrow that she loses her wings in the process and becomes trapped. The figs produce a special enzyme that then breaks down the insect’s body into proteins. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Are There Really Dead Wasps in Your Figs? (treehugger.com)
Born in 1924, Lady Wonder was a horse many believed was psychic. She made predictions and answered questions for over 30 years and more than 150,000 people. She is credited with helping solve several crimes. – WTF Fun Facts