Castoreum is a warm, carnal, and leather-like scent used in perfume. Now synthetically replicated, it originally came from the castor sac of the mature North American Beaver which was used in combination with urine to mark their territory. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fragrantica.com/notes/Castoreum-102.html
The White Bellbird, found in the Guianas, Brazil and Venezuela, is known as the world’s loudest bird. Their mating call sounds like a fire alarm and can reach up to 125 decibels. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://globalnews.ca/news/6066393/loudest-bird-bellbird-song/
Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land” as a retort, after he got tired of hearing Kate Smith’s “God Bless America” over and over again. He sarcastically named the song “God Blessed America For Me” before later changing the title. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land
If they do not break on impact, both a glass and a steel ball of similar proportion to a rubber ball will bounce higher than the rubber ball. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://sciencenotes.org/why-a-glass-ball-bounces-higher-than-a-rubber-ball/
In 1953, a single PEEPS Marshmallow Chick took 27 hours to make and was created by hand with a pastry tube. Today, even with advances in technology it still takes about six minutes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.justborn.com/news-and-media/2015/came-first-peeps-chick-peeps-decorated-egg/
Don Rickles, the voice of Mr. Potato Head, passed away before he was able to record any dialogue for Toy Story 4. Rather than replace him, Disney reviewed 25 years of material from the first three films, video games, and other media and were able to assemble enough dialogue to cover the entire film. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/28/toy-story-4-potato-head/
Insulin used to be combined with protamine, obtained from rainbow trout milt/semen, to prolong the effect. – WTF Fun Facts
People didn’t always say ‘hello’ when they answered the phone. When the first regular phone service was established in 1878, Alexander Graham Bell suggested answering the phone with ‘Ahoy!’ – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/05/garden/great-hello-mystery-is-solved.html
Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent during the American Civil War that there was an honor code among soldiers: you couldn’t shoot a man while he was defecating. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/diarrhea-is-the-wartime-enemy-no-one-mentions.html