Roughly 85% of hospitals still use pagers because hospitals can be dead zones for cell service. In some areas, the walls are built to keep X-rays from penetrating, which also makes it hard for cell phone signals to pass through. Pagers work on very high-frequency radio signals which don’t have the same issue. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Why Hospitals and Doctors Still Use Pagers | The Healthy
“Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo” is a grammatically correct sentence using buffalo as a proper noun, verb, and noun. An expanded version: “Buffalo bison that other Buffalo bison bully also bully Buffalo bison.” –WTF Fun Facts
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The YKK zipper company does everything in-house to ensure consistent quality and speed of production. It manufactures its own zipper-manufacturing machines, makes the shipping boxes, smelts the brass, spins and twists the thread, and weaves and color-dyes cloth for its zipper tapes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: YKK zippers: Why so many designers use them. (slate.com)
The bald eagle is not actually bald but has white feathers on its head. It’s name is derived from the word “piebald,” which refers to the eagle’s light and dark colored feathers. – WTF Fun Facts
“Semantic satiation” is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who then perceives the speech as repeated meaningless sounds. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Semantic satiation – Wikipedia
The highest paid athlete of all time was a Roman Charioteer named Gaius Appuleius Diocles. Over a 24 year career, he amassed a fortune worth 35,863,120 sesterces (an ancient Roman coin), or roughly $15 billion in today’s dollars. – WTF Fun Facts
In November 2009, Marge Simpson appeared on the cover of Playboy magazine. She was the first cartoon character to appear on the cover.– WTF Fun Facts
The smallest dinosaur ever found – a bird-like creature weighing less than a tenth of an ounce – has been discovered inside a drop of amber, where it was preserved for 99 million years. The dinosaur has been named “Oculudentavis” meaning “eye tooth bird.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The smallest dinosaur ever found was a weird, primitive bird, researchers say (nbcnews.com)
There are many philosophical razors – not just the well-known Occam’s Razor. One is called “Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword,” and it states that what cannot be settled by experiment ought not be debated. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Philosophical razor – Wikipedia