In 2016, a British man crowdfunded a ten hour film of paint drying in order to force the British Board of Film Classification to watch it. It was a protest against the BBFC requiring independent filmmakers pay £1000 per submission for their certificate. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bbfc-declares-paint-drying-film-a-u-after-sitting-through-all-607-minutes-a6834671.html
Africa has roughly 18 sets of twins per 1000 births. It is the world’s highest rate of twin-births among regions in the developing world. Igbo Ora Town in Nigeria averaged nearly 50 sets per 1000 births when studied in the 1970’s. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://theculturetrip.com/africa/nigeria/articles/this-city-in-nigeria-has-the-highest-rate-of-twins-in-the-world/
After his son tragically died in an accident caused by a pothole, Dadarao Bilhore took it upon himself to fill potholes around Mumbai. Using sand, gravel, and cement collected from building sites, he has filled 600 potholes since 2015 and continues on. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/2164184/his-son-was-killed-mumbais-crumbling-roads-now-dadarao-bilhore
Studies show that there are more bacteria cells (~39 trillion microbial cells) than human cells (~30 trillion cells) in our bodies. Even as many as 40 of our human genes are thought to be bacterial in origin. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/how-many-bacteria-cells-outnumber-human-cells-microbiome-science
Mothers are asked more questions per hour (23) than teachers (19) and doctors/nurses (18). They are asked the most around meal times (11), followed by while shopping (10) ,and then while reading a story (9). – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9959026/Mothers-asked-nearly-300-questions-a-day-study-finds.html
A recent study found both humans and domestic dogs receive a dramatic increase of oxytocin, the bonding hormone, from the other when staring into each other’s eyes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-dogs-stole-our-hearts
In some cultures and languages, the colors described in English as blue and green are colexified, or expressed using a single cover term. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue%E2%80%93green_distinction_in_language
It takes over 500 years to produce just under an inch of topsoil, which is the most productive layer of soil. This soil is often derived from rock which has to be broken into smaller pieces through either physical or chemical weathering. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://soilsmatter.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/soil-formation/
An economist named Stefan Mandel and his investors won the lottery 14 times (the largest jackpot was $27 million) by calculating when the jackpot was worth more than the cost of buying every possible number combination for that lottery. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/03/27/he-won-lottery-times-using-math-his-biggest-jackpot-still-came-down-luck/