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/
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
Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant who was the only surivor after JAT Flight 367 exploded on January 26, 1972. As a result, she holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. She fell over 33,000 feet while trapped in the fuselage. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
While playing a 3-minute blitz game of chess at the World Championships in 2019, grandmaster Magnus Carlsen wasted 20 seconds of his time taking his suit coat off, drinking water, and organizing his pieces – and still won. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqpeMNtL5A
Walt Disney World once had it’s own airport with a singing runway (Lake Buena Vista STOLPort runway). Grooves in the tarmac were spaced so the lines played the opening notes of “When You Wish Upon a Star”. The airport closed in 1972. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/singing-runway-at-the-abandoned-disney-world-airport
Recently, a British Airways Boeing 747 set a new sub-sonic record for a flight between New York’s JFK and London’s Heathrow airports. The jumbo jet maxed out at 825 mph while riding a 200 mph jet stream tailwind to arrive in 4 hours and 56 minutes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/storm-ciara-flight-record-new-york-london-time-atlantic-winds-british-airways-a9325396.html
During the US prohibition era, moonshiners would wear cow shoes. The fancy footwear left hoofprints instead of footprints, helping distillers and smugglers evade police. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/cow-shoes-prohibition-1924/
The price of a college textbook increased 90% from 1998 to 2016, while recreational book prices fell by more than 35% over the same time period. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.aei.org/carpe-diem/chart-of-the-day-the-astronomical-rise-in-college-textbook-prices-vs-consumer-prices-and-recreational-books/
On the Queen of England’s birthday in 2015, she was given a gift of £5,000 worth of stud sperm by horse breeder Christina Patino. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/queen-elizabeths-91st-birthday-2017-the-weirdest-gifts-her-majesty-has-ever-received_uk_58f9d670e4b00fa7de131965?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMsMKqa7WZh2e1b4AvCjvBnlo8F8SXTxHOXbAZUQa-_0614wgdq5kmE5z_C3kI4ABDDRsfduqi_luDaTXslk4-k-I07Z2h1i4lP24Vl0LGNyVkqhMeWJlV7qTNSPvGlp_B1Y8Y3cChiW-j3AiE1nomHeyADhfld92f_pLXtuWqpV