The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds the world’s oldest piano. The piano dates back to 1720 and was one of Bartolomeo Cristofori’s (inventor of the piano) earliest creations. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.pianistmagazine.com/blogs/the-worlds-oldest-piano-1/
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WTF Fun Fact – Skydecks
There are four glass platforms suspended 1,353 feet in the air, located on the Willis Tower’s 103rd floor Skydeck. The observation perches have walls, floors, and ceilings made entirely of glass. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://theskydeck.com/
WTF Fun Fact – Curiosity’s Happy Birthday
In 2013, NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover hummed Happy Birthday to itself by vibrating its sample-analysis unit to the musical tune, but did so only on its first “birthday”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/why-the-curiosity-rover-stopped-singing-happy-birthday-to-itself/536487/
WTF Fun Fact – Dead Peasant Insurance
Up until 2000, Walmart took out life insurance policies on their employees and kept the payouts when they died, a practice known as “dead peasant insurance.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://news.wfsu.org/post/walmart-sued-collecting-life-insurance-employees
WTF Fun Fact – Mating Plug
Some animals and insects, like squirrels and bumblebees, use a “mating plug” to prevent other males from inseminating females they have already mated with. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170419-the-largest-and-smallest-sex-cells-on-the-planet
WTF Fun Fact – Mountain Gorillas
Uganda is home to more than half of the world’s total population of mountain gorillas. Approximately 400 mountain gorillas live in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.gorillatrips.net/uganda-gorilla-families/
WTF Fun Fact – Card Counting Legality
Despite it being common practice for casinos to ban card counters, a 1979 New Jersey Supreme Court decision banned all Atlantic City casinos from doing so, making them the only state in America where they can’t throw out skilled blackjack players. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_counting#Legal_status
WTF Fun Fact – Old Chewing Gum
Archaeologists found “chewing gum” in western Sweden believed to be 9,000 years old, made of resin sweetened with honey, and the tooth marks showed it had been chewed on by a stone-age teenager. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://apnews.com/749119838d8f7f04689315c9cf728e5d
WTF Fun Fact – Killers of Eden
The killers of Eden or Twofold Bay killers were a pod of orcas in SE Australia which helped local whalers kill baleen whales between 1840 and 1930. The arrangement became known as the “law of the tongue” because the whalers would leave the carcass for the orcas to eat the lips and tongues. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killer_whales_of_Eden,_New_South_Wales