It is estimated that the Earth as a whole is struck by an average of more than a hundred lightning bolts every second. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/6/flash-facts-about-lightning/
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WTF Fun Fact – Feral Cats Can Eat
The feral cat population in Australia was so large that they killed an estimated 75 million native animals every night across Australia, including birds, frogs, mammals, and reptiles. Australian authorities planned to kill 2 million feral cats by 2020. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.peta.org.au/issues/feral-cats/
WTF Fun Fact – USA’s Only Marsupial
The opossum or possum, Didelphis virginiana, is currently the only marsupial native to the USA. They groom themselves like cats and one possum can eat some 5,000 ticks in a single season, killing ~90% of all the ticks they encounter. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wideopenspaces.com/did-you-know-that-opossums-eat-virtually-all-the-ticks-in-your-yard/
WTF Fun Fact – Drunken Tommy Fitz
After a barroom bet, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a plane from a New Jersey airport and landed it on a Manhattan street in front of the bar in 1956. He did it again 2 years later when someone refused to believe him. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Stupendemys Geographicus
Car size fossils of the turtle, Stupendemys geographicus, were found in Colombia’s Tatacoa Desert and Venezuela’s Urumaco region. These turtles are believed to have roamed the region between 7 and 13 million years ago. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-51485011
WTF Fun Fact – As Canadian As
In 1972, a morning show on Canadian radio station CBC held a contest to find a national simile (a response to ‘As American as apple pie’). The winning response was “As Canadian as possible under the circumstances.” – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Viking Signal
In Denmark, there are some traffic signals with small viking figures. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Awful Icy Cream Recipe
One of the earliest recipes for ice cream, or icy cream as it was called in this 1660’s recipe, included ambergreece/ambergris or whale feces for flavoring. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Hitchcock’s Tea Cups
After every tea Alfred Hitchcock finished on set, he would throw the tea cup and saucer over his shoulder allowing them to shatter on the ground. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2015/08/04/15-things-you-may-not-know-about-alfred-hitchcock-5317037/