By narrowing your eyes and slowly blinking, you can communicate with cats that you are friendly and improve your chances that they approach and are receptive to you. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Study Confirms ‘Slow Blinks’ Really Do Work to Communicate With Your Cat (sciencealert.com)
Coffee beans grow on a bush. They are actually the seed of a small red fruit called coffee cherries and are technically not a bean at all. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Is Coffee a Fruit or a Vegetable? [The Definitive Answer] – Taylor Lane
The tongue of a giraffe is a dark black or purple color due to the extra melanin in it, which protects the tongue from getting sunburn. This is a necessity since their tongues are so long (up to 2 feet) and exposed from eating nearly 12 hours a day. – WTF Fun Facts
The Vatican is painting it’s famous buildings, like the Belvedere Palace which was built in 1484, with milk from the Pope’s cows which are kept at his summer residence of Castel Gandolfo. The milk is mixed with slaked lime and natural pigments and hand-patted onto the building. – WTF Fun Facts
Source:Why the Vatican is using milk to paint its buildings – CNN Style
The technical name for a Pringle chip’s shape is a truncated hyperbolic parabaloid. Their shape gives them the correct aerodynamics for flight (so they don’t fly off the production line) and the structural integrity to ensure break-free transport in their tube. – WTF Fun Facts
Callipygian or callipygous is a word derived from the Greek word Kallipygos meaning “having shapely buttocks.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Callipygian | Definition of Callipygian by Merriam-Webster
Seventeenth-century English aristocrats planted grass on the most visible parts of their properties so people would know they were wealthy enough to “waste” the land by not using it for crops. This is the beginning of lawns as a status symbol. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Grassy lawns should not be mandatory. (strongtowns.org)
In 1957, the US military developed a ‘shouting bomb’. The nine-foot long bomb could address large crowds for nearly 3 minutes as it dropped to the ground with a parachute. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: PATTER OF FACTS. – Free Online Library (thefreelibrary.com)
In several Chinese cities, companies operate a “jam-busting” service. Drivers in traffic jams who need to get somewhere urgently call and 2 people show up on a motorbike. One stays with your car, and the other drives you on the back of the bike through the traffic jam. – WTF Fun Facts