If you were on the moon, the Earth wouldn’t actually move in the sky. It would appear to wobble a little because the moon is elliptical but it would never “rise” or “set”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65831-earth-phases-from-moon.html
Thurl Ravenscroft was both the singer of ‘You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch’ and also the voice of Frosted Flakes mascot Tony The Tiger. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thurl_Ravenscroft
The builders of Japan’s Nijo castle created purposefully squeaky floors, known as nightingale floors, to prevent ninja assassins from sneaking in. The floors were designed so that just the lightest step produced a clearly audible sound warning guards. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2018/04/nightingale-floor-ancient-japanese.html
The USSR successfully sent a spacecraft and entry probe to Venus in 1966 becoming the first space probe to hit the surface of another planet – three years before the US put man on the moon. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venera_3
Arnold Schwarzenegger paid Austria $20,000 to ship him a 1951 M-47 Patton tank, the exact same tank he drove when he was a soldier. It is fully operable (minus the gun) and he uses it to support his fundraising efforts. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/26/arnold-schwarzenegger-gives-kids-rides-in-his-old-war-tank.html
The Parthian shot, an ancient military tactic where archers on horses would feign retreat and then turn their bodies while at full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_shot
Galeanthropy is a mental condition of thinking that one has become a cat, which is usually manifested in the adoption of feline mannerisms and habits. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/galeanthropy
There is a version of the Mexican song La Cucaracha sang by Poncho Villa’s troops in battle during the Mexican Revolution that is about a cockroach that can’t walk because it doesn’t have marijuana to smoke. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.leafly.com/news/lifestyle/la-cucaracha-references-marijuana
Ducks can keep their eyes open underwater due to a transparent third, sideways eyelid called a nictating membrane or haw. All birds have it and even humans have a vestigial remnant called the plica semilunaris. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nictitating_membrane