If they do not break on impact, both a glass and a steel ball of similar proportion to a rubber ball will bounce higher than the rubber ball. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://sciencenotes.org/why-a-glass-ball-bounces-higher-than-a-rubber-ball/
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WTF Fun Fact – PEEPS Marshmallow Chicks
In 1953, a single PEEPS Marshmallow Chick took 27 hours to make and was created by hand with a pastry tube. Today, even with advances in technology it still takes about six minutes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.justborn.com/news-and-media/2015/came-first-peeps-chick-peeps-decorated-egg/
WTF Fun Fact – Mr. Potato Head
Don Rickles, the voice of Mr. Potato Head, passed away before he was able to record any dialogue for Toy Story 4. Rather than replace him, Disney reviewed 25 years of material from the first three films, video games, and other media and were able to assemble enough dialogue to cover the entire film. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/28/toy-story-4-potato-head/
WTF Fun Fact – Insulin And Rainbow Trout
Insulin used to be combined with protamine, obtained from rainbow trout milt/semen, to prolong the effect. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Ahoy!
People didn’t always say ‘hello’ when they answered the phone. When the first regular phone service was established in 1878, Alexander Graham Bell suggested answering the phone with ‘Ahoy!’ – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/05/garden/great-hello-mystery-is-solved.html
WTF Fun Fact – Civil War Honor Code
Dysentery and chronic diarrhea were so prevalent during the American Civil War that there was an honor code among soldiers: you couldn’t shoot a man while he was defecating. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thecut.com/2016/06/diarrhea-is-the-wartime-enemy-no-one-mentions.html
WTF Fun Fact – Avocado Source
Nearly 80% of all avocados sold in the world come from a single seed sourced in 1926. Rudolph Hass grafted the seedling with branches from a Fuerte avocado tree which he almost cut down. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hass_avocado
WTF Fun Fact – Chock Full o’ Nuts
Chock Full o’ Nuts coffee was introduced in 1932; but it does not contain nuts. It’s named for a chain of nut stores that the founder converted into coffee shops during the Great Depression. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Mosquitos And Pregnancy
Pregnant women attract roughly twice as many mosquito bites as non-pregnant people. This is likely because they tend to exhale more carbon dioxide and have a higher body temperature than others. – WTF Fun Facts