Incredibly, recycling just one ton of paper saves 3.3 cubic yards of landfill space, 17 mature trees, 682.5 gallons of oil and 7000 gallons of water. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.recyclingbin.com/Recycling-Facts
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WTF Fun Fact – Poe’s The Conchologist’s First Book
Edgar Allan Poe’s bestselling book as a living author was a schoolbook he was hired to abridge and reorganize titled The Conchologist’s First Book. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_vault/2015/12/14/edgar_allan_poe_s_textbook_on_seashells_was_his_only_bestseller.html
WTF Fun Fact – Hands-Free Wheelchair
The Omeo is a wheelchair based on Segway technology which allows users to move hands-free at a max speed of 20km per hour. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://omeotechnology.com/theomeo/
WTF Fun Fact – Whipple-Scrumpets
In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and Chocolate Factory, the Oompa-Loompas where at one point known as Whipple-Scrumpets.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28980257
WTF Fun Fact – The Milky Way Tastes Like Raspberries
The center of the Milky Way tastes like raspberries and smells like Captain Morgan. Astronomers researching the giant dust cloud in the middle of the galaxy found the chemical ethyl formate, which gives raspberries their flavor and smells like rum. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/apr/21/space-raspberries-amino-acids-astrobiology
WTF Fun Fact – NASA Sextant And Slide Rule
On NASA’s Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin (who did his doctoral thesis at MIT on line-of-sight orbital mechanics) successfully calculated the docking trajectory using a sextant and a slide rule. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/gemini-xii-crew-masters-the-challenges-of-spacewalks
WTF Fun Fact – User Your Emoji’s
A 2015 study in the UK found that 72% of 18 to 25-year-olds believe it’s easier to communicate their feelings with emojis rather than it is with words. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32793732/uks-fastest-growing-language-is-emoji
WTF Fun Fact – Elephants Console One Another
A recent study found elephants console one another when they are upset with gentle touches and trunk strokes. Previously, only humans, great apes, and birds in the raven family were known to do this. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-elephants-console-one-another-when-times-get-tough-180949830/
WTF Fun Fact – Francis Pegahmagabow
Francis Pegahmagabow was a Canadian indigenous man who fought in WWI. He killed 378 enemies with his Ross rifle and captured another 300, making him one of the most successful marksmen in WWI. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/legendary-ojibwa-sniper-unsung-hero-of-ww-i-1.2725241