Lewis Fry Richardson, considered the father of modern weather forecasting, derived many of the complex equations needed for weather prediction in the 1920’s. However, the math was so difficult that to predict the weather for the next six hours took him six weeks to do the calculations. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23242953
The Spanish national anthem, Marcha Real, has never officially had lyrics and has been played without any unofficial words since 1978. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://quizzclub.com/trivia/the-spanish-national-anthem-has-no-words/answer/496/
There’s an old Finnish measurement unit called a poronkusema, which translates to “reindeer’s piss”. It describes the distance a reindeer can travel without having to stop to pee which is roughly 7 – 7.5km. – WTF Fun Facts
The trap-jaw ant can bite with a force of over 300 times their own bodyweight. Their jaws snap shut at a record-setting speed of ~62 mph. By biting the ground, they can launch themselves in the air to avoid danger. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5272094.stm
There aren’t any true wild horses in the US any more. The Western US has a population of free-roaming mustangs that are descendants of domesticated colonial Spanish horses and therefore are technically feral and not wild. – WTF Fun Facts
Researchers in France have developed a brain-controlled robotic suit that has allowed a paralyzed man to walk again. A tetraplegic man has spent two years moving a virtual avatar in a video game in order to train a decoding algorithm, which translates the signals into movements. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2019/10/04/health/paralyzed-man-robotic-suit-intl-scli/index.html
The children’s book The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle was originally titled A Week with Willie Worm. – WTF Fun Facts
A mantis shrimp can swing its claw so fast that it boils the water around it and creates a flash of light. – WTF Fun Facts
In 1922, there were a series of riots in New York that lasted 8 days known as the Straw Hat Riot. They started because men were wearing straw hats past the date deemed socially acceptable – 15 September. – WTF Fun Facts