China has built the world’s largest single-dish radio observatory (FAST) at a cost of $171 million. The telescope, also known as the ‘Eye of Heaven’, took 5 years to build in a remote area in southwest China. Its 500m-wide dish is made up of ~4,400 individual, adjustable aluminum panels. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Lucky Whales Tail
On Nov. 1, 2020, a metro train near the city of Rotterdam crashed through the barrier at the end of the tracks and luckily landed on a whale’s tail art installation. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Celebrity Gaming Apps
Glu Mobile, trying to re-create the success of gaming app “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood” has created apps for Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Gordan Ramsay, Jason Statham, and Nicki Minaj. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – 2 Billion English Speakers
English is spoken by over 2 billion people in the world and there are more people who have learned it as a second language than there are native speakers. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda
Until 1948, the soft drink 7 Up (originally called Bib-Label Lithiated Lemon-Lime Soda) contained a dose of lithium citrate, which is a mood-stabilizing drug used in psychiatric treatment of bipolar disorder and manic states. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Corn Is Everywhere
Corn can be found in many non-food items such as drywall, fireworks, glue, paint, dyes, laundry detergent, soap, antibiotics, and cosmetics, and in the production of plastics. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.farms.com/ag-industry-news/10-things-made-with-corn/
WTF Fun Fact – Hidden Norman Rockwell
A Norman Rockwell painting worth over $5 million was discovered inside the walls of cartoonist Don Trachte’s house in 2006. It’d been hidden there for 35 years. The cartoonist likely forged several paintings he owned to prevent losing them in a divorce settlement and hid the originals. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2006/apr/11/1
WTF Fun Fact – Burial Pod
Italian designers Raoul Bretzel and Anna Citelli created the Capsula Mundi (“world’s capsule” in Latin), an egg-shaped, organic casket that’s suitable for ashes. Its biodegradable plastic shell breaks down and the remains provide nutrients to a tree planted above it. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2017/05/03/world/eco-solutions-capsula-mundi/index.html
WTF Fun Fact – Campbell Soup And Chocolate
In 1967, Godiva Chocolatier was sold by its founders the Draps Family to Campbell Soup Company. In December 2007, Campbell’s sold it on as it did not fit with their strategic focus of “simple meals”. – WTF Fun Facts