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WTF Fun Fact – Hooting or Hollering

January 11, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Hooting At Eachother

In 1996, a man in Devon, England spent a year hooting at owls and logging their response only to find out his neighbor was unknowingly the ‘owl’ hooting back. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/twit-two-woo-over-the-garden-fence-1252339.html

WTF Fun Fact – The Dire Wolf Project

January 11, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Dog Like Wolf

Since 1988, a dog breeder has been working on The Dire Wolf Project. The goal is creating a breed (American Alsatian) of loving companion dog that resembles a prehistoric dire wolf. They are enormous, scary, shaggy, and by all accounts, sweet. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: http://www.direwolfproject.com/

WTF Fun Fact – (Il)legal Fireworks

January 11, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Florida Fireworks illegal

Fireworks have been completely illegal in Florida since 1941, but are sold to people en masse via hundreds of stores across the state to anyone who signs a waiver saying they’re for agricultural use to scare birds away from crops. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.tampabay.com/features/consumer/Yes-most-fireworks-are-illegal-in-Florida-No-that-doesn-t-stop-anyone-Here-s-why-_169531650/

WTF Fun Fact – Rézfaszú Bagoly

January 10, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Rézfaszú bagoly

The Rézfaszú bagoly, which translates to’The Copper-Penis Owl’, is the Hungarian equivalent of the boogeyman and used by parents to scare children into behaving properly. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://europeisnotdead.com/european-monsters/

WTF Fun Fact – Four Year Old Finds Gold

January 10, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Little Treasure Hunter

In 2009, a four year old British boy and his father were searching a field in Hockley with his father’s metal detector and discovered a 16th century golden pendant estimated to be worth $4 million. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-11776113

WTF Fun Fact – Da Vinci’s Oxen Heart Valve

January 10, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Da Vinci's Heart Valve

Leonardo Da Vinci once created a replica of a heart valve by pouring hot wax into an oxen’s heart, making a mold of thin glass from the cast, and then pumping water mixed with seeds through it. He identified vortices which help close the heart valve after each beat. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.rct.uk/collection/919082/the-aortic-valve

WTF Fun Fact – A Python’s Methods

January 9, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Pythons methods

A recent study found that pythons don’t actually kill by suffocation, but rather by cutting off the circulation of blood resulting in a heart attack. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3171522/Pythons-kill-heart-attack-Snakes-actually-cut-blood-supply-prey-kill-suffocation.html

WTF Fun Fact – Pros And Cons Of Marriage

January 9, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - List Of Marriage Pros and Cons

Charles Darwin once made a list of the pros and cons for marriage, the pros included: ‘constant companion and a friend in old age better than a dog anyhow.’ The cons: ‘less money for books’ and ‘terrible loss of time.’ – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2739/2739-h/2739-h.htm

WTF Fun Fact – Makeup On A Shoestring Budget

January 9, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - 250 dollars of makeup

Robin Mathews won an Oscar for Best Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling for the 2013 movie Dallas Buyers Club which had a makeup budget of only $250 for the entire 28 days of production. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2014/02/dallas-buyers-club-makeup-oscar-nomination

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