Mario Puzo, the author of The Godfather books who helped adapt them to film, had no formal training and had never written a screenplay before. After winning two Oscars for the first two movies, he decided to buy a book to help him learn to how to screenwrite. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2019/03/08/701492922/a-look-back-at-the-godfather-with-mario-puzo-and-francis-ford-coppola
Nintendo started as a playing card company in 1889 and over the years has operated a taxi company called “Daiya” as well as an hourly ‘love hotel’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://kotaku.com/the-nintendo-theyve-tried-to-forget-gambling-gangster-5784314
Since 1979, Jadav Payeng aka The Forest Man of India has been planting trees every day on the island of Majuli and Jorhat. In that time, he has built a forest reserve covering 1,360 acres and now that place has its own ecosystem. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/12/26/572421590/hed-take-his-own-life-before-killing-a-tree-meet-india-s-forest-man
The Maricopa County Animal Care and Control center offers a ‘Calming Companions’ program where the public can visit their shelters to play with and keep the animals calm during 4th of July fireworks. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.onegreenplanet.org/news/people-comforted-scared-shelter-animals-fireworks/
Researchers found the Puff adder uses both visual and chemical camouflage (minimizing their scent) to hide from predators and ambush prey. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://africageographic.com/blog/new-research-reveals-puff-adders-dont-smell/
Paleolithic humans stored the bone marrow in legs of deer for delayed consumption (up to 9 weeks later) as early as 400,000 years ago. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/09/science/marrow-israel-cave.html
Dogs can tell time by smell. They can smell different times of the day and how long their owner has been gone by how much their smell has dissipated since they left. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.akc.org/expert-advice/news/dogs-tell-time-with-their-noses-expert-says/
Studies show that about 85% of people only breathe out of one of their nostrils at a time. There is a nasal cycle which rotates between the two every ~4 hours. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.ua-magazine.com/good-to-know-most-people-only-breathe-out-of-one-nostril-at-a-time/#.XdwqOdXgpPY
A cat named Grace helped save her owners from carbon monoxide poisoning by repeatedly banging on their old 120-year-old home’s bedroom door to wake them. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/hero-cat-named-grace-saved-couple-carbon-monoxide/story?id=46169752