A 400 lbs. loggerhead turtle named “Yoshi” swam ~23,000 miles from Cape Town to Australia to nest after being in captivity for 20 years. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Loggerhead turtle’s journey tracked 37,000km from Cape Town in South Africa to Australia – ABC News
Bedrock, Colorado is the only town of that name in the US and as a result their tiny post office receives all the fan mail addressed to “The Flintstones.” They have a special stamp for rejecting the mail that says: “Return to Sender – Fictitious Cartoon Character.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.telluridenews.com/news/article_192d67ed-26a2-5928-8ff4-dd2d59ed6ea7.html
The Night of the Radishes is an annual event held on December 23 in Oaxaca, Mexico, dedicated to the carving of oversized radishes to create nativity scenes. In 2014, 12 tons of radishes were harvested for the event. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2017, Hasbro successfully trademarked the distinctive smell of Play-Doh. Their application describes the Play-Doh smell as “a sweet, slightly musky, vanilla fragrance, with slight overtones of cherry, combined with the smell of a salted, wheat-based dough.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: “Hasbro just trademarked Play-Doh’s smell. Oh, the memories” — CNET
The Zildjian Company was founded in 1623 by Avedis Zildjian, an Armenian alchemist who ended up making a cymbal instead of gold. The company is now run by the 14th generation of Zildjian’s descendants. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avedis_Zildjian_Company
In 2010, biologists found a healthy shark egg case dropped by an adult bamboo shark, who spent nearly 4 years isolated from males. Their results mark the longest documented case of sperm storage in any species of shark. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Longest-ever case of sperm storage in sharks documented — ScienceDaily
Bessie Coleman was an American Aviator and the first black woman to earn a pilot’s license. Because flying schools in the US denied her entry, she taught herself French and moved to France, and earned her license from Caudron Brother’s School of Aviation. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Bessie Coleman – Quotes, Death & Facts“You’ve never lived till you’ve flown.” – Biography
Back in the 1960s, NASA worried that their astronauts would struggle to maintain their dental hygiene in space. As a result, they developed a foamless, ingestible toothpaste called “NASAdent.” – WTF Fun Facts
Michelangelo was hired by Piero de’ Medici to make a snowman. It’s recorded by the art historian Giorgio Vasari that “one winter, when a great deal of snow fell in Florence, [Piero de’ Medici] had him make in his courtyard a statue of snow, which was very beautiful”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Michelangelo’s snowman and other great lost works of art | Art | The Guardian