Britain’s oldest turkey is ironically named ‘Dinner’. He is over 16 years old and lives as a pet on Stonebridge Farm in Nottingham. – WTF Fun Facts
Animals
Our random animal facts are a both fun and a little bit weird but they will keep you entertained for days!
WTF Fun Fact – CIA Cat Spies
The CIA spent $20 million in an attempt to use cats to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies. The mission was called Acoustic Kitty and involved implanting a microphone in a cat’s ears and a radio transmitter near its skull. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Pieza Fly Names
There’s a genus of fly called Pieza which has cleverly named species like Pieza pie, Pieza rhea, Pieza kake,and finally the Pieza deresistans. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Ant Infrastructure Projects
New research shows ants manage large infrastructure projects without wasting any energy on coordination or communication between ants. Each ant works alone and solves problems by themselves. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-01-ants-megaprojects.html
WTF Fun Fact – Lemming Feces Glows
Northern Collared Lemmings build underground ‘toilets’ and always defecate there so that their ultraviolet feces doesn’t attract birds of prey. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150513-these-animals-use-public-toilets
WTF Fun Fact – Wild Wallabies In Paris
There are ~150 wallabies living in the forest of Rambouillet near Paris, France. They are descendants of several wallabies that escaped from the local zoo in the 1970’s. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Bell Breeds Sheep
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was also fascinated with breeding sheep with extra nipples after he purchased some land that came with a flock of sheep. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.producer.com/1997/10/telephone-inventor-researched-sheep-teats/
WTF Fun Fact – Bambi Punishment
A convicted deer poacher in Missouri has been sentenced to watch Disney movie Bambi once a month for the entirety of his year-long sentence. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Snickers The Horse
Mars’ Snickers candy bar is the top selling candy bar in the world with over $2 billion in sales in 2016. It was named after the Mars family’s favorite horse. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://kxrb.com/snickers-the-top-candy-bar-named-after-a-horse/
WTF Fun Fact – Emergency For Sheep Farts
A Singapore Airlines cargo flight had to make an emergency landing in Bali due to a smoke sensor being triggered from the dung and farts of the 2,186 sheep aboard the plane. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/sheep-farts-force-malaysian-bound-flight-emergency-landing-390738
WTF Fun Fact – Squirrel Eavesdroppers
A recent study found that squirrels listen to the chatter of birds and respond accordingly. When birds chirps were relaxed, then the squirrels relaxed. The opposite was also true, when the bird chatter was alarmed, the squirrels became more alert and vigilant. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: New york times
WTF Fun Fact – Water Trough
Farmers will often put goldfish in their horse’s water trough to eat the insects and prevent mosquito larvae from producing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://horsenetwork.com/2018/07/goldfish-water-trough/
WTF Fun Fact – Thomas Jefferson Geese
Thomas Jefferson bred and raised a special type of geese in order to supply himself with quill pens. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: random fact, random facts, random funny fact, wtf fun fact, https://www.history.org/foundation/journal/Winter07/lettersSide.cfm
WTF Fun Fact – Lab Mouse Monument
There is a monument to the lab mouse in Siberia, Russia, commemorating their role in genetic research. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monument_to_the_laboratory_mouse
WTF Fun Fact – Mouse Treatment
During the Elizabethan Age in England, people used mice to treat a number of ailments including whooping cough, measles, and smallpox. They would even cut them in half and apply it to warts to remove them. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/15-most-bizarre-medical-treatments-ever/2/
WTF Fun Fact – Elephant Neurons
Elephants have 3x as many neurons as humans have, but nobody knows why this doesn’t result in them being smarter than us. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Sabre-Toothed Lie
The Sabre-Toothed Tiger or Smilodon was not actually a tiger or at all related to tigers or modern day cats. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smilodon
WTF Fun Fact – Small Velociraptor
Contrary to what was depicted in the Jurassic Park movie franchise, velociraptors were no bigger in size than turkeys. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/velociraptor-facts.html