Dutch researchers have created artificial leaves that produce drugs using sunlight. In testing, they successfully produced artimensinin, which is a drug to treat malaria, and ascaridole, used against certain parasitic worms. – WTF Fun Facts
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Dutch researchers have created artificial leaves that produce drugs using sunlight. In testing, they successfully produced artimensinin, which is a drug to treat malaria, and ascaridole, used against certain parasitic worms. – WTF Fun Facts
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It is estimated that the Earth as a whole is struck by an average of more than a hundred lightning bolts every second. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/6/flash-facts-about-lightning/
The feral cat population in Australia was so large that they killed an estimated 75 million native animals every night across Australia, including birds, frogs, mammals, and reptiles. Australian authorities planned to kill 2 million feral cats by 2020. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.peta.org.au/issues/feral-cats/
The opossum or possum, Didelphis virginiana, is currently the only marsupial native to the USA. They groom themselves like cats and one possum can eat some 5,000 ticks in a single season, killing ~90% of all the ticks they encounter. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wideopenspaces.com/did-you-know-that-opossums-eat-virtually-all-the-ticks-in-your-yard/
After a barroom bet, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a plane from a New Jersey airport and landed it on a Manhattan street in front of the bar in 1956. He did it again 2 years later when someone refused to believe him. – WTF Fun Facts
Car size fossils of the turtle, Stupendemys geographicus, were found in Colombia’s Tatacoa Desert and Venezuela’s Urumaco region. These turtles are believed to have roamed the region between 7 and 13 million years ago. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51485011
Despite Japanese men smoking cigarettes at double the rate of American men, having higher cholesterol levels and higher blood pressure, they still have ~30% the rate of heart disease as men in the USA. This is mainly due to their diet and weight. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://medium.com/the-mission/why-japanese-men-have-far-less-heart-disease-badbc3841322
In 1972, a morning show on Canadian radio station CBC held a contest to find a national simile (a response to ‘As American as apple pie’). The winning response was “As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.” – WTF Fun Facts
There is a small rock island, Ilha da Queimada Grande, off the coast of Southern Brazil that is home to roughly 1 snake per square meter. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilha_da_Queimada_Grande