People with very sensitive noses are capable of smelling when it’s about to rain due to atmospheric chemicals reacting and creating ozone, which has a pungent, sweet smell. The thunderstorm’s downdrafts carry it from higher altitudes to nose level. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/storm-scents-smell-rain/
The Maricopa County Animal Care and Control center offers a ‘Calming Companions’ program where the public can visit their shelters to play with and keep the animals calm during 4th of July fireworks. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/people-comforted-scared-shelter-animals-fireworks/
India set a new world record planting over 66 million trees in 12 hours. The Madhya Pradesh state used 1.5 million volunteers to plant the saplings along the Narmada river. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theyouth.in/2019/02/05/india-breaks-guinness-world-record-plants-66-million-trees-in-just-12-hours/
The four construction bay doors on NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (or VAB) are the world’s largest doors. At 456 feet high, they are taller than the Statue of Liberty. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.kidsdiscover.com/quick-reads/inside-nasas-vehicle-assembly-building/
The world’s longest water slide was unveiled in Malaysia and is a 1 kilometer-long chute that starts on a hilltop. It is three times longer than the previous record-holding slide in Germany. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-longest-waterslide-malaysia-escape/index.html
In 2010, the Colombian army produced a song called ‘Better Days’ with Morse code embedded in the chorus and aired it in rebel-controlled territory to lift the morale of hostages. The message said “19 people rescued. You are next. Don’t lose hope.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian-army-morsecode-hostages
The world’s largest model train set in Germany beat its own Guinness World Record by adding a large new section based on Monaco. It previously measured 39,370 feet of track and has now expanded to 51,558 feet, 4.78 inches of track. – WTF Fun Facts
According to a study with data sourced from phone apps, women on average tend to sleep a half hour longer than men, with women ages 25 and under getting the most sleep out of all. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2087231-women-sleep-half-an-hour-longer-than-men-phone-app-data-shows/
In 2012, Choi Gap-bok escaped from prison by squeezing his body through a 5.9″ tall and 17.7″ wide food slot when the guards were sleeping. He is a yoga practitioner and applied skin ointment to his body in order to slip out. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/choi-gap-bok-prison-escape_n_1919866
In 2018, Snoop Dogg set the world record for the largest paradise cocktail with a ~132 gallon gin and juice at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. It contained 180 bottles of gin, 154 bottles of apricot brandy, and just 38 jugs of orange juice. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/05/29/snoop-dogg-breaks-guinness-world-record-largest-gin-and-juice/650560002/
The world’s most expensive perfume is Clive Christian No. 1 Passant Guardant. It costs $143,000 for 30ml and comes in a flask studded with 2,000 diamonds. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.lux-review.com/2016-the-world-s-most-expensive-perfume-by-clive-christian/
NASA cleverly chose the name Juno for it’s Jupiter mission. Jupiter’s moons are named after the god’s many mistresses. The Juno space probe sent to monitor Jupiter is named after his wife. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/juno-jupiter-galileo-sex-joke-2016-7
The St. Louis City Museum has the largest graphite pencil in the world. It is 76 feet long and weighs 18,000 pounds. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://vimeo.com/64984221
An Australian man and his two daughters found a gold nugget weighing 624 grams (worth ~$35,000) while walking their dog. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12230581
In a study done by British “sensory branding company” Condiment Junkie, 96% of people can tell the difference between cold and hot water being poured. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2014/07/05/328842704/what-does-cold-sound-like
A family taking a walk on a beach in Wales found a message in a bottle thrown into the ocean by a German couple 1,624 miles away and nearly four years earlier. – WTF Fun Facts
The origin of Walt Disney’s last name is the anglicized word D’Isigny meaning “from Isigny”. Relatives in France created a cheese company and they’ve created collaborations making Mickey Mouse themed cheese. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.isigny-ste-mere.com/en/disney
Billy Ray Harris is a beggar who was accidentally given a $4000 engagement ring by a passing woman when she dropped it into his cup. He held on to it and two days later the woman came back for her ring and he gave it to her. In thanks, she set up a fund that raised over $185000 for him. – WTF Fun Facts