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Google offers employees free condoms in their campus health center that come in blue, red, green, and yellow and have their trademark ‘I’m Feeling Lucky!’ printed on them. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-im-feeling-lucky-condoms-2016-2
Studies show that about 85% of people only breathe out of one of their nostrils at a time. There is a nasal cycle which rotates between the two every ~4 hours. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.ua-magazine.com/good-to-know-most-people-only-breathe-out-of-one-nostril-at-a-time/#.XdwqOdXgpPY
Orthosomnia is a new disorder where people are so obsessed with the quality of their sleep that they lose sleep because of it. – WTF Fun Facts
Americans are over 20 times more likely to be killed by a cow than by a shark, bear, or alligator. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/shark-versus-cow-deadlier/story?id=24931705
A recent study on plastic pollution found the average person consumes 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in roughly the same amount. – WTF Fun Facts
You receive a higher dose of radiation living next to a coal plant than you do a nuclear plant. This is due to the fly ash emitted by the power plant which is 100x more radiation than a similar nuclear plants waste. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
Your tooth enamel is harder than a lobster’s shell or a rhino’s horn. It’s even harder than steel. It’s made of mineralized calcium phosphate, which is the hardest substance a living being can produce. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_enamel
Human saliva contains a painkiller called Opiophin that is roughly 6 times more powerful than morphine. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-4.html
A study found you are more likely to have nightmares if you sleep on your left side instead of your right. – WTF Fun Facts
Blue eyes don’t have blue pigment but are instead blue because they scatter light so that only blue light reflects out, similar to the sky and water. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/your-blue-eyes-arent-really-blue
MIT engineers have created a robotic, snake-like thread that can navigate through narrow blood vessels in the brain, promising treatment for strokes and other blockages. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-brain-blood-vessels-0828
The record for the longest pregnancy is held by Beulah Hunter who in 1945 was pregnant for a year and 10 days, nearly 100 days longer than the average pregnancy. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2017, a woman who received a uterus transplant from a deceased donor was able to give birth to a healthy baby. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2018-12-baby-born-uterus-transplanted-dead.html
Contagious yawning, a common form of echophenomena (the automatic imitation of another’s words or actions), is a real thing but scientists don’t fully understand which part of the brain controls it. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(17)30966-1.pdf
UK researcher FitRated found that the free weights at the gym have 362 times more bacteria than a toilet seat and treadmills had 74 times more bacteria than a bathroom faucet. – WTF Fun Facts
After undergoing IVF treatment, a 74-year-old woman has given birth to twin girls in an Indian nursing home. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/06/74-year-old-woman-gives-birth-twins-india-ivf-treatment/
The human brain is full of multi-dimensional geometrical structures operating in as many as 11 dimensions. – WTF Fun Facts
Stone Man Syndrome is an extremely rare condition whereby any small damage to tissue is regrown into bone.– WTF Fun Facts