The puffin’s beak is specialized to hold lots of fish. They can carry roughly 5-20 fish back to their nest at a time. Astonishingly, a puffin in Britain once carried 62 fish in his beak! – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://projectpuffin.audubon.org/birds/puffin-faqs
India set a new world record planting over 66 million trees in 12 hours. The Madhya Pradesh state used 1.5 million volunteers to plant the saplings along the Narmada river. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theyouth.in/2019/02/05/india-breaks-guinness-world-record-plants-66-million-trees-in-just-12-hours/
In 2004, after a particularly bad locust plague in Australia, two local agricultural officers created a more palatable name and cook book with 20 “sky prawn” recipes titled Cooking With Sky Prawns. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/1477219/A-plague-of-locusts-Think-of-them-as-delicious-sky-prawns.html
Muhammad Ali’s star on the Hollywood walk of fame is not on the sidewalk. It is on the wall of Kodak/Dolby theater because of his request that the name of Muhammad not be walked on. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/06/04/muhammad-ali-hollywood-star/85426914/
A professional eater downed 50 slices of pumpkin pie in 10 minutes to win a New York state contest and set a new record for the event. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/10/02/Woman-sets-pumpkin-pie-eating-record-at-50-slices-in-10-minutes/1671570027922/?sl=5
There’s a 2001 cult film called Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. The plot has a modern-day Jesus struggling to protect the lesbians of Ottowa, Ontario from vampire with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Vampire_Hunter
Americans are over 20 times more likely to be killed by a cow than by a shark, bear, or alligator. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/shark-versus-cow-deadlier/story?id=24931705
The world’s longest water slide was unveiled in Malaysia and is a 1 kilometer-long chute that starts on a hilltop. It is three times longer than the previous record-holding slide in Germany. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-longest-waterslide-malaysia-escape/index.html
A recent study on plastic pollution found the average person consumes 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in roughly the same amount. – WTF Fun Facts