The scientific name for the dark kangaroo mouse is Microdipodops megacephalus, meaning “two small feet with a big head”. – WTF Fun Facts
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WTF Fun Fact – Why Is Breakfast Important?
The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day came from General Foods trying to sell more grape nuts cereal during its 1944 marketing campaign. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://priceonomics.com/how-breakfast-became-a-thing/
WTF Fun Fact – Robert Landsberg
Photographer Robert Landsberg was taking photographs during the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980. Upon realizing he wouldn’t survive, he lied down on top of his equipment to preserve the photographs he had taken of the event. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://huckberry.com/journal/posts/robert-landsburg-s-brave-final-shots
WTF Fun Fact – One-Armed Tennis
One-armed tennis player Hans Redl played at Wimbledon from 1947 to 1956. He served by tossing the ball up with his racket.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20121016/282638914821007
WTF Fun Fact – US Airport Numbers
According to the CIA’s 2013 data, the United States has 13,513 airports (recognizable from the air), which is more than the next 10 countries combined. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2053rank.html
WTF Fun Fact – Skywriting
There are only six full-time skywriters, those who use aircraft to expel special smoke during flight in patterns that create readable words from the ground, left in the world. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/qjd347/there-are-only-six-full-time-skywriters-left-in-the-world
WTF Fun Fact – 3-stars, Wait Nevermind
Rolling Stone magazine originally gave Nirvana’s Nevermind a 3-star rating in 1991. They now give it 5 stars and rank it as the 17th greatest album of all time. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Unusual Volcano Ash
Hawaii allows people to throw their beloved’s ashes into their volcanoes, as long as you pay a $25 permit and do it discretely. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/management/scattering-of-ashes.htm
WTF Fun Fact – Ada Lovelace Flyology
Ada Lovelace, considered one of the first computer programmers, wrote a theory of “flyology” on powered flight that accurately documented wing-body ratios to achieve flight. She was 12 years old when she published it. – WTF Fun Facts