The unicorn is the official national animal of Scotland. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The unicorn – Scotland’s national… | National Trust for Scotland (nts.org.uk)
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WTF Fun Fact – 12000 Facts
The odds of an average golfer making a hole-in-one is: 12,000 to 1.
A hummingbirds wings can beat up to 200 beats per second or 12,000 beats per minute.
There are over 12,000 species of ants.
Bolivia’s La Paz is the highest administrative capital in the world at ~12,000 ft above sea level.
Between 12,000 and 15,000 bicycles are fished from the bottom of Amsterdam’s canals each and every year.
WTF Fun Fact – Guggenheim Museum Design Details
It took Frank Lloyd Wright 15 years, 700 sketches, and six sets of working drawings to create the Guggenheim Museum in New York. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Villas Las Estrellas
Anyone who moves to the Villas Las Estrellas, a settlement in Antarctica, must first have their appendix preemptively removed, because the nearest hospital is over 625 miles away. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: BBC – Future – The icy village where you must remove your appendix
WTF Fun Fact – Free Local Honey With Your Car Service
Since 2016, some Australian Subaru dealerships have been giving out free local honey after servicing cars. Bee One Third – Neighborhood Honey formed a mutualistic relationship where BOT places boxes of beehives in strategic places, like empty dealership rooftops, and provides them honey. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – How To Feed Saudi Arabian Cows
Saudi Arabian dairy company Almarai owns ~15,000 acres in California with water rights to the Colorado River so that they can cheaply grow alfalfa to feed their cows back in Saudi Arabia.–WTF Fun Facts
Source:Who keeps buying California’s scarce water? Saudi Arabia | California | The Guardian
WTF Fun Fact – Tibetan Butter Tea
In Tibet, butter tea is a common drink. It is traditionally made from black tea, yak butter, and salt resulting in a consistency like a stew or oil. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Butter tea – Wikipedia
WTF Fun Fact – World’s Only Necrocracy
Despite dying in 1994, Kim Il-sung remains president of North Korea. The constitution was revised in 1998, declaring him ‘Eternal President of the Republic’. As a result, North Korea became the only necrocracy in the world – a government operating under the rules of a deceased former leader. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Kim Il-Sung | Biography, Facts, Leadership of North Korea, Significance, & Death | Britannica
WTF Fun Fact – Lingotto Building
In 1916, construction of the Lingotto building began in Via Nizza, Italy, which originally housed a car factory for automotive company Fiat. It was the largest car factory in the world at the time and included a test track on the roof. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Lingotto – Wikipedia
WTF Fun Fact – 96 Bags Of Trash On The Moon
A total of 12 astronauts have landed on the lunar surface and have left a total of ~96 bags containing urine, feces, vomit and other waste. Minimizing weight on board the spacecraft was essential in order to bring back samples of the moon. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Why Nasa wants to bring back 96 bags of poop from Moon – Times of India (indiatimes.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Missile Silo LSD Lab
In the 1990’s, two guys used a decommissioned Atlas Missile Silo in Kansas as an LSD lab. It’s estimated they were making about a kilogram (worth ~$40 million on the street) of LSD every five weeks. The silo also contained massive amounts of MDMA and synthetic mescaline. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: This 1990s LSD Lab Built Inside An Underground Missile Silo Gave Us The World’s Acid | History Daily
WTF Fun Fact – Good Morning MMS
One in three smartphone users in India run out of space daily according to a survey by Western Digital, compared with one in 10 in the U.S. Google researchers peeked into Indian consumers’ phones and found thousands of “good morning” images from texts filling up their storage. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The Internet Is Filling Up Because Indians Are Sending Millions of ‘Good Morning!’ Texts – WSJ
WTF Fun Fact – Amazing Mayan Temple Trick
The Mayans constructed their temples so that a handclap at the base of the temple produces an echo that sounds like the call of the sacred Quetzal bird, which they believed was a messenger of the gods. The technique is now known as a “Bragg diffraction grating.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Here’s How This Ancient Mayan Pyramid Makes Bird Calls (gizmodo.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Somalian Guitar Coins
In 2004 and 2012 Somalia minted sets of 6 $1 guitar coins. The coins are all silver plated cupro-nickel pieces with multiple layers of enamel. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Somalia’s Rocking Coins Look Like Electric Guitars! | Mintage World
WTF Fun Fact – Taos Pueblo
Native Americans have been living in the multi-story adobe buildings of Taos Pueblo for over 1,000 years, making it the longest continuously inhabited place in the USA. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://taos.org/places/taos-pueblo/
WTF Fun Fact – Longest Taxi Journey
Three friends set the world record for completing the longest ever journey by taxi. They drove 43,319.5 miles in their 20-year-old black cab named “Hannah.” They drove across four continents and 50 countries generating a fare of £79,006.80. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Black cab trio set longest taxi journey world record – BBC News
WTF Fun Fact – Divorce Via Text
In 2003, Malaysian courts ruled that a man could divorce his wife via text message, as long as it was clear and unambiguous. The case included the following text message sent by Shamsudin Latif: “If you do not leave your parents’ house, you’ll be divorced”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Malaysia permits text message divorce
WTF Fun Fact – Pakistan’s Fake Pilots
In 2019, Pakistan’s aviation minister launched an inquiry after a plane crash and found that nearly 40% of Pakistan’s pilots had “fake licenses”. These pilots had someone else take the exam for them and some didn’t even have the necessary flying experience. – WTF Fun Facts