Researchers found that the price paid for something impacts the way we taste and enjoy it. For example, paying a lot more money for the same bottle of wine gives the drinker more pleasure because the higher price causes more blood and oxygen to be sent to the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/study-90-wine-tastes-better-than-the-same-wine-at-10/
The first assassination attempt on Archduke Ferdinand failed spectacularly. The bomb bounced off the car and exploded under the wrong vehicle. The assassin then fled, diving into a nearby dry riverbed and eventually vomiting up his own suicide pill. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://alphahistory.com/worldwar1/assassination-in-sarajevo/
Laid end-to-end, an adult’s arteries, veins and capillaries would stretch for about 100,000 miles – enough to wrap around the world nearly four times. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10976/Circulatory-Blood-vessels.html#ixzz4lbaU3JV5
Prince Charles had engineers modify his Aston Martin Volante to run on biofuel made from white wine. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2018/11/08/charles-forced-aston-martin-make-car-run-wine-royal-train-cooking/
Actor Jonah Hill was hospitalized with bronchitis after snorting so much fake cocaine during the filming of The Wolf of Wall Street. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/jonah-hill-fake-cocaine-wolf-of-wall-street-a7200886.html
The Argentine Football Association published a cultural manual ahead of the 2018 World Cup that included a section on how to seduce Russian women. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2018/05/17/argentina-apologizes-for-world-cup-manual-on-seducing-russian-women-a61475
In the near future, you can spend up to 30 nights on the International Space Station for $35,000 per night (transportation not included). Wifi is also extra but is a reasonable $50 per gigabyte. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/nasa-to-open-space-station-to-paying-tourists-2019-6?r=US&IR=T
The HNLMS Abraham Crijnssen is a Dutch naval warship that was stationed
in the East Indies in 1941, when the Japanese attacked. Ordered to
retreat to Australia, the crew camouflaged the ship as a jungle island
and would sail farther away each night. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HNLMS_Abraham_Crijnssen_(1936)
According to the latest census, the average age of farmers in Japan is 67 and the total amount of people working in agriculture has decreased by 60% in the last three decades. – WTF Fun Facts