Starfish or sea stars have crude eyes on the tip of their arms. Each of their arms has an eye that looks like a red spot. These eyes cannot see full details but can sense dark and light and crude images so that they can find their way back to coral reefs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Surprise! Scientists Find How Starfish See With Their Eyes (nationalgeographic.com)
According to market research firm Euromonitor International, global gum sales have declined 15% since 2007 – the year the iPhone came out. They believe people have less free time and are distracted on their phones in checkout lines where most gum purchases are made. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: No time to kill: How smartphone is pushing chewing gum out of fashion (indiatimes.com)
While on an African safari in 1954, Ernest Hemingway survived two plane crashes in two days. He was presumed dead by newspapers until he was spotted coming out of the jungle carrying bananas, a bottle of gin, and commenting on his luck. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Ernest Hemingway: 5 Times the Writer Cheated Death | Time
In 2002, Saddam Hussein’s campaign theme song for re-election was Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You.” – WTF Fun Facts
Alexander Litvinenko was a former Russian spy turned MI6 agent that solved his own murder case. In 2006, he was poisoned in a London hotel. While dying from radioactive poisoning, he worked with Scotland Yard detectives to trace the lethal substance to a former comrade in the Russian secret service. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Alexander Litvinenko: the man who solved his own murder | Alexander Litvinenko | The Guardian
Human life is comprised of about 30 of the 118 elements on the periodic table with nearly 99% of the mass of your human body consisting of just 6 chemical elements. However, your iPhone is made up of about 75 elements. – WTF Fun Facts
After being sold to a herdsman 8 months prior, an elderly camel “ran away” and walked more than 62 miles alone in the Inner Mongolian desert to find its previous owners. Another herdsman spotted it and contacted its former owners. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Bayannur: Camel Walks In Desert For Days To Return To Former Owners (indiatimes.com)
One in three smartphone users in India run out of space daily according to a survey by Western Digital, compared with one in 10 in the U.S. Google researchers peeked into Indian consumers’ phones and found thousands of “good morning” images from texts filling up their storage. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The Internet Is Filling Up Because Indians Are Sending Millions of ‘Good Morning!’ Texts – WSJ
While filming Tokyo Drift, Universal Pictures couldn’t get a permit to film a scene in Shibuya. They filmed it anyway, and the studio hired a fall guy to claim to be the director Justin Lin and spent a night in jail. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: ‘F&F’ director got man arrested in Tokyo (digitalspy.com)