In 2007, South Korea began employing cloned Labrador retrievers to sniff out drugs for the customs service. Training and using cloned dogs was more cost effective since only 30% of naturally born dogs they trained ever qualified for service. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: South Korea deploys cloned drug-sniffing dogs – ABC News (go.com)
Aquariums aren’t allowed to pay to acquire animals from other aquariums as it encourages poaching. Instead, there is a barter system in place where they swap animals and each has their own fish or similar “base currency” they prefer to trade in. – WTF Fun Facts
Almost every time the General Lee jumped in the Dukes of Hazzard show, the car was totaled. About 300 General Lees “died” while filming, or about one per episode. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: General Lee: 10 Bizarre Facts You Never Knew About The Dukes Of Hazzard Car (screenrant.com)
In May 2016, Burger King opened a spa which included a 15-seat sauna in one of its restaurants in Helsinki, Finland. You can order food into the spa as well. – WTF Fun Facts
In plant biology, Vavilovian mimicry (or crop mimicry) occurs when a weed evolves to share one or more characteristics with a domesticated plant from generations of artificial selection. Oats and rye both started as weeds before mimicking wheat and becoming a crop. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Vavilovian mimicry – Wikipedia
In 2019, fast food chain Wendy’s released a free to download fantasy tabletop role-playing game, similar to Dungeons & Dragons, titled Feast of Legends. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Wendy’s Made a Tabletop RPG Where You Battle Ronald McDonald – IGN
After revolutionary Che Guevara’s execution in Bolivia in 1967, his hands were severed from his body for purposes of fingerprint identification. The hands and body were then lost until his buried body was found in 1997 under a landing strip in Bolivia. His hands remain missing. – WTF Fun Facts
“Scotch” used to be a synonym for “thrifty” or “frugal.” When cellophane tape was first invented, it was marketed during the Great Depression as “scotch tape” since it could extend the life of objects and save you money. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: How Did Scotch Tape Appear and What Is the Story Behind Its Name? – All Spares (all-spares.com)
The animation code for the snow from ‘Frozen’ was used to help engineers from the Snow Avalanche Simulation Laboratory in Switzerland solve a 62-year-old Russian cold case known as the Dyatlov Pass incident where 9 Russian hikers perished. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Engineers Used ‘Frozen’ Animation Code to Solve Dyatlov Pass Mystery | IndieWire
