When PayPal first started they gave $20 to everyone that made an account and $20 for every person they referred. This cost them $60-70 million, but they had 100,000 customers by the end of their first month in business. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.referralcandy.com/blog/paypal-referrals/
Modern negligence law is a result of the 1932 court case Donoghue v Stevenson in Scotland, where Mrs. Donoghue sued Mr. Stevenson after drinking a bottle of ginger beer with a dead snail in it and becoming ill. – WTF Fun Facts
Bats are one of a few species besides humans that communicate directly to one another instead of just broadcasting to all. A lot of the time their communications are arguments about food, sleeping position, or another bat being too close. – WTF Fun Facts
Farmers in Botswana have started painting eyes on their cows’ butts to trick Lions into thinking they have been seen. This prevents them from ultimately attacking the cows as Lions rely on the element of surprise. – WTF Fun Facts
When going to battle, Rajput clans would armor their specially bred horses with fake elephant trunks, making them appear to be baby elephants which the enemy’s adult elephants instinctively would not attack. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://travel.cnn.com/explorations/play/horses-bred-fight-elephants-630647/
Canadian teen Mike Rowe was sued for trademark infringement by Microsoft for his part-time web development business’s domain MikeRoweSoft.com. They eventually settled for an Xbox and games, a trip to Redmond, training, and an MDN subscription. – WTF Fun Facts
Source:
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic once turned down a $5 million offer to be a beer brand’s commercial spokesperson because he thought it was ethically the right decision since many of his fans were young and impressionable. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vintagevinylnews.com/2010/11/weird-al-yankovic-regrets-turning-down.html?m=1
By eating and excreting doves, a single cougar can plant nearly 100,000 seeds in a year providing a valuable service to their ecosystem. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://world.edu/big-cats-play-bigger-role-plant-preservation-knew/
Dragonfly wings kill bacteria on contact by ripping apart their cell membranes with sharp nanopillars as they move across the surface of the wing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://newatlas.com/dragonfly-nanostructures-anitbacterial-properties/53331/