One of the largest and oldest organisms on Earth, the ‘Trembling Giant’, is slowly dying to mule deer. The 106-acre pando quaking aspen colony in Utah, which is nearly 80,000 years old, is being thinned by the deer eating its new stems. The mule deer are thriving as they currently have no natural predators. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/63852-failing-aspen-clone-utah.html
In 2010, the Colombian army produced a song called ‘Better Days’ with Morse code embedded in the chorus and aired it in rebel-controlled territory to lift the morale of hostages. The message said “19 people rescued. You are next. Don’t lose hope.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian-army-morsecode-hostages
Bob Graham, the former Governor and Senator of Florida, worked 408 ‘work days’ starting in 1974 as part of his political campaigns. He performed various jobs in Florida for a full eight-hour workday, including working as a barber, “pooper scooper”,bellhop, tomato picker, etc. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://postonpolitics.blog.palmbeachpost.com/2013/03/05/bob-graham-weighs-in-on-scotts-speech-crists-switch-daughters-potential-congress-bid/comment-page-1/
Flatworms have male and female sets of genitalia, and if they can’t find a flatworm to mate with, they will inseminate themselves by stabbing their head with their needle-like copulatory organ, a practice known as selfing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/this-flatworms-freaky-sex-life-will-freak-you-out/
There were Shingon Monks who successfully mummified themselves alive via a practice called Sokushinbutsu, meaning “a Buddha in this very body”. Only 24 such mummifications have been discovered to date. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu
A 2015 research study on the efficiency of mosquito repellents found that Victoria’s Secret’s Bombshell perfume actually repelled mosquito’s better than nearly all the other non-DEET products. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/mosquitoes-repelled-by-victorias-secret-perfume-2015-11
Nematode’s (also known as the roundworm) sperm does not swim but crawls using its cytoskeleton instead. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://jcs.biologists.org/content/115/2/367
There’s a type of honey called mad honey which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make the dangerous vertical climb to harvest it because it sells for up to $80 a pound. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/honey-hunters-bees-climbing-nepal/
You receive a higher dose of radiation living next to a coal plant than you do a nuclear plant. This is due to the fly ash emitted by the power plant which is 100x more radiation than a similar nuclear plants waste. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/