Coco Chanel, the founder of fashion and perfume empire Chanel, was a nazi spy during WWII with the code name of ‘Westminster’ due to her connections with British high society. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.biography.com/news/coco-chanel-nazi-agent
Food Fact – Icelanders eat Puffin
Puffins are a local delicacy in Iceland. You can find them served smoked, grilled, or boiled. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/eat_and_drink/2016/12/21/12_local_delicacies_to_try_in_iceland/
Fun animal fact – immortal jellyfish
The Turritopsis Dohrnii aka immortal jellyfish can live forever by transforming back into their juvenile polyp state after reproducing. They retract their tentacles, their bodies shrink, and they sink to the ocean floor and start the life cycle all over again. They only die by being eaten by a predator or contracting a disease. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://immortal-jellyfish.com/
Fun Fact – Toddler’s lie and it’s a good thing
Research in Canada has found that toddler’s who learn how to lie early on are more likely to do better later in life. The study found only 1/5 of two year olds know how to lie. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10119297
Slash’s mom has got it going on
Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash once walked in on his mother naked in bed with David Bowie. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/slash-embarrassed-by-story-about-mom-naked-with-david-bowie-204278/
How many curtain calls?
Pavarotti holds the record for curtain calls doing 165 after a performance of the Donizetti opera “L’elisir d’amore“ at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1988. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://oddpavarottiblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/pavarotti-in-berlin-5/
Chernobyl radioactivity
The most radioactive places at Chernobyl are no longer the #4 reactor area but the hospital room where they left all the first responders clothes and the equipment they used to clean up all the debris from the explosion. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.chernobylgallery.com/chernobyl-disaster/radiation-levels/
Drunken Aussie Birds
The Australian Rainbow Lorikeet routinely gets drunk on the fermented crimson flower nectar from the Weeping Boer-bean tree and make loud noises during spring and summer. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/australia/typical-aussie-bird-likes-the-piss.aspx
Stomach acid is no joke
Parietal cells in your stomach produce hydrochloric acid which helps to break down food. This acid is so concentrated that one drop would eat straight through a piece of wood. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sharecare.com/health/digestive-health/how-stomach-keep-digesting-itself