When Pepsi was first created in North Carolina in 1893, it was originally named “Brad’s Drink” after it’s creator Caleb Bradham, who made it at his drugstore where the drink was first sold. It wasn’t until 1898 that it was renamed to Pepsi-Cola. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pepsi
Leonardo Da Vinci was a wedding planner from 1489 to 1493, and in 1491 he even planned the wedding for the Duke of Milan. Da Vinci created the menu, the entertainment and even the decorations. – WTF Fun Facts
Mim is an eastern grey kangaroo raised by humans who hand-fed her. After they released her, Mim roamed wild for years; but when wildfires burned nearby in 2019, Mim turned up at their door seeking shelter. – WTF Fun Facts
The most expensive tea in the world is grown in the mountains of Ya’An in the Sichuan province of China. Workers fertilize the tea bushes using the waste from local pandas. The tea costs the equivalent of around $200 for a small cup. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Poo for tea: China’s pandas brew a top drop | Reuters
Ocean waters around the world contain about 20 million tons of gold in the water itself, worth 100’s of trillions of dollars at today’s prices. Each liter of water contains approximately 13 billionths of a gram of gold. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: $771 Trillion Worth Of Gold Lies Hidden In The Ocean: Good Luck Getting It (forbes.com)
The fish-scaled gecko (Geckolepis megalepis) has tear-away skin and scales that rip off at the slightest threat. They can regenerate scales in just a few weeks. – WTF Fun Facts
A 2013 study found that domestic cats in the United States kill an estimated 1.3–4.0 billion birds and 6.3–22.3 billion mammals annually. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States | Nature Communications
The first Olympic disqualification for drug use was against a Swedish pentathlete Hans-Gunnar Liljenwall who drank two beers before his shooting event to calm his nerves during the 1968 Olympics. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Gunnar_Liljenwall
Ancient Greeks and Egyptians measured long distances by hiring “bematists,” who would count steps while walking between locations. They could measure hundreds of miles with 95%+ accuracy. Eratosthenes used one to calculate the circumference of the Earth within 15% in 240 B.C.E. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Bematist – Wikipedia