The world’s largest serving of fried chicken totaling 3,675 pounds was prepared by 18 vendors at a food festival in Japan for a new Guinness World Record. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/09/16/Japanese-festival-cooks-up-worlds-largest-serving-of-fried-chicken/7141568650844/?sl=11
Japan proposed an amendment to the Treaty of Versailles to abolish all racial discrimination. The US and Australia were the only opposition to it and so it was not included. As a compromise, Japan received a number of Pacific islands instead. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_Equality_Proposal
The ancient murrelet is the only bird known to migrate across the entire North Pacific. Many migrate 5,000 miles from Canada to winter near Japan and China, even though the climate is nearly identical. – WTF Fun Facts
An international team of scientists and Google engineers have discovered that the Rubik’s cube puzzle can always be solved in 20 moves or less. – WTF Fun Facts
Anthropologists can partly determine the ancestral routes of different people and how those ancestors got to where their descendants now live by examining earwax. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/29620/determining-migratory-patterns-early-humans-%E2%80%94-earwax
A Welsh community built 2,044 sandcastles on the Whitmore Bay beach to break a Guinness World Record. – WTF Fun Facts
In the early 20th century, the Prussian rulers prohibited the Danes in the area from displaying the Danish flag. In protest, they bred and displayed Husum Red Pied pigs that’s coloring resembled the flag of Denmark. – WTF Fun Facts
The Western Winter Wren can sing 36 notes per second, more than double the 16 notes that the Eastern version can sing. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/how-does-a-tiny-bird-like-a-winter-wren-manage-to-sing-so-many-sounds-so-quickly-and-so-loudly/
MIT engineers have created a robotic, snake-like thread that can navigate through narrow blood vessels in the brain, promising treatment for strokes and other blockages. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://news.mit.edu/2019/robot-brain-blood-vessels-0828