The New Zealand badminton team was originally nicknamed ‘the Black Cocks’ as a marketing ploy but had to drop it after complaints.
Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/sport/news/article.cfm?c_id=4&objectid=10345531
despite their diet being composed of 99 bamboo
Despite their diet being composed of 99% bamboo, pandas are part of the order Carnivora, because physiologically they are made to eat meat. Thus, they are essentially vegetarians.
– WTF Fun Fact
Source: https://animals.mom.me/giant-panda-herbivore-1608.html
when j r r tolkiens son michael enlisted in
When J. R. R. Tolkien’s son Michael enlisted in the Army, he put on his paperwork that his father’s profession was ‘Wizard’.
Source: https://www.1843magazine.com/culture/look-closer/tolkiens-drawings-reveal-a-wizard-at-work
a banana peel has many practical uses including
A banana peel has many practical uses including treating a splinter in your finger, stopping a dvd or cd from skipping, soothe insect bites, polish your shoes or silver, whiten your teeth, and more!
Source: https://actualfruveg.com/2018/04/29/all-the-things-you-can-do-with-a-banana-peel-before-to-throw-it-away-imagenes-banana/
the haskell free library and opera house is an
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House is an opera house on the U.S. – Canada border where the stage is in one country and half the audience is in another.
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Free_Library_and_Opera_House
there are beetles named after darth vader
There are beetles named after Darth Vader (Agathidium vaderi), Kate Winslet (Agra katewinsletae), Adolf Hitler (Anophthalmus hitleri), and several other celebrities.
– WTF Fun Fact
in the victorian era people used to say prunes
In the Victorian era, people used to say ‘prunes’ instead of ‘cheese’ during photographs to make themselves look more serious as they still followed the habits of painted portraiture subjects.
Source: https://techxplore.com/news/2015-11-cheese-style-curiosity-yearbook-photos.html
between 1956 and 1981 tressa prisbey built a
Between 1956 and 1981, Tressa Prisbey built a ‘village’ made out of recyled bottles in order to house her collection of 17,000 pencils.
in the 1930s the us army developed and approved
In the 1930’s, the US Army developed and approved as official national policy major war plans to invade Canada (code name War Plan Crimson) and Mexico (War Plan Green) plus others.