The “Caviar of the East,” bird’s nest soup is made from the nest of the endangered swiftlet bird, who uses its own solidified saliva to make its nest. – WTF Fun Facts
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WTF Fun Fact – Sticky Rice Mortar
The Great Wall of China is held together by sticky rice mortar. Around the year 500 A.D., the Chinese started mixing sticky rice soup with slaked lime to make very strong and weather resistant mortar. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Hippopotamus Soup
The earliest archaeological evidence for the consumption of soup dates back to 6000 BC, and it was a hippopotamus soup. The other ingredients in the soup were sparrows, vegetables, lentils, and various spices. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Vegetable Orchestra
An Austrian musical group called Das Erste Wiener Gemüseorchester (The First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra) uses instruments made entirely from vegetables. After the show, they use the leftover vegetables to make soup for the audience. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vegetable_Orchestra
WTF Fun Fact – Dragon Bones
Villagers in central China have long been using dinosaur bones in medicine and soups, thinking they were from dragons. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6276948.stm
