The mansion used on the ABC reality tv series, The Bachelor, is owned and lived in by a family. The family moves out and takes their furniture with them two times a year for 42 days of filming. It’s also available to rent on AirBnB and is over 200 years old. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Here’s How You Can Rent the Mansion Seen on ABC’s “The Bachelor” (housebeautiful.com)
Mondadori publishing puts out a weekly, 68-page magazine dedicated to Pope Francis called Il Mio Papa. Each issue comes with a pullout centerfold of the Pope along with a quote. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: A New Magazine for Fans of the Vatican’s Biggest Star – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
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)