After laying eggs, the female octopus’ only function is to protect and tend to their eggs. They remain stationary for anywhere from months to years depending on the species of octopus, uninterested in food and slowly dying. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The grim, final days of a mother octopus — ScienceDaily
There’s a skate park an hour south of Seattle in Wilkeson, Washington which is shaped like bacon and eggs in a frying pan. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Skate Bacon and Eggs
Hummingbirds often build their nests near hawk nests because their predators are scared of the hawks. Survival rates are higher for hummingbird eggs laid in a cone-shaped area near and below hawk nests. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/hawks-act-unwitting-muscle-hummingbirds-180956506/
Volunteers spent 2 years cleaning up over 11,500,000 pounds of trash along Mumbai’s Versova beach in one of ‘the world’s largest beach clean-ups’, resulting in Olive Ridley turtles returning to lay eggs for the first time in 20 years. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/mumbai-beach-clean-up-turtles-2/
Male human beings produce 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times more sperm than females produce eggs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/32437-why-are-250-million-sperm-cells-released-during-sex.html
Some baby turtles talk to each other while they are still in their eggs so that they all hatch together. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21228-turtle-eggs-communicate-to-hatch-together/
Why ostriches bury their head in the sand? – WTF fun facts
