The Brookesia micra chameleon is believed to be the world’s smallest at just over an inch long. It is found only on the small island of Nosy Hara, which is also home to the world’s smallest lemur, giant lemurs, and the world’s largest chameleons. – WTF Fun Facts
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WTF Fun Fact – Selfless Parrots
African grey parrots are highly social and recent research demonstrated they have evolved the ability to act selflessly. This is the first time non-mammals have been observed helping each other in this way. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: nytimes.com/2020/01/09/science/parrots-selflessness-help.html
WTF Fun Fact – Broke Princess Adopts Men
By the 1980’s, Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt, one of the last German princesses, was so broke she started a business adopting adult men and giving them the royal ‘Prince’ title in exchange for money. She made about 35 regular guys ‘princes’ and in the process made millions. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie-Auguste_of_Anhalt
WTF Fun Fact – Anatoli Brouchkov
Anatoli Brouchkov, a Russian geocryologist, injected himself with a 3.5 million year old strain of bacteria known as Bacillus F, which he found in a permafrost sample, just to see what would happen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yp3gg7/meet-the-scientist-who-injected-himself-with-35-million-year-old-bacteria
WTF Fun Fact – Westernmost & Easternmost
Alaska is both the Westernmost and Easternmost point of the United States. Alaska has an uninhabited Aleutian Island called Semisopochnoi which sits just 10 miles east of the 180th meridian. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2012-07-30/semisopochnoi-island-alaska-maphead-ken-jennings
WTF Fun Fact – Zoo Matchmaking Site
The American Zoo Association has a “matchmaking site” known as the Population Management Center. It was started in June 2000 to help conserve species by facilitating matchmaking between zoos. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/13/match-com-for-animals/
WTF Fun Fact – Space Between Atoms
If you took out all of the empty space from between and within the atoms making up each human being, the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/can-the-entire-human-race-fit-inside-a-sugar-cube.html
WTF Fun Fact – Takshashila
The World’s first and ancient university was established in Takshashila in 700 BC in India (modern day Pakistan). More than 10500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://veda.wikidot.com/tip:world-first-university-takshila
WTF Fun Fact – Odd Rat Names
Baby rats are called kittens or pups. A group of rats is called a mischief. – WTF Fun Facts