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.
Ophiocordyceps unilateralis, a parasitic fungus, effectively turns ants into zombies. The fungus compels the ant to bite onto the underside of a low-hanging leaf where it dies, and the fungus then sends a fruiting body out through the ant’s head to disseminate spores. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Cordyceps zombie fungus takes over ants’ bodies (nationalgeographic.com)
“Autothysis” (or suicidal altruism) is the process where an animal destroys itself via an internal rupturing or explosion of an organ which ruptures the skin. Some species of termites and ants use this process to defend their colonies.– WTF Fun Facts
Male ants have no fathers because unfertilized ant eggs always produce male ants and only fertilized eggs produce female ants. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant#Development_and_reproduction
Poison dart frogs derive their toxicity from eating poisonous ants and termites in the wild. A captive-bred dart frog is essentially harmless, as its diet does not include any poisonous prey. – WTF Fun Facts
A study found that each year arthropods (like millipedes, spiders and ants) eat over 2,100 pounds of junk food discarded in New York City’s Broadway/West St. corridor in Manhattan. That’s the equivalent of 60,000 hot dogs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/3039379/new-york-ants-eat-the-equivalent-of-60000-hot-dogs-a-year-in-food-we-drop
There are hundreds of species of spiders that disguise themselves as ants by pretending their two front legs are antennae in order to hide from predators and hunt their prey. – WTF Fun Facts
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
