Scientists believe the spruce and pine trees in the boreal forests of Siberia survive the -60 degrees Celsius temperatures by allowing their tree tissues to turn to glass as part of a process called ‘hardening’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20141220-five-christmas-tree-secrets
Researchers found that dogs have musical tastes. The Scottish SPCA and University of Glasgow monitored dogs’ heart rates while playing different genres of music and found that they generally preferred reggae and soft rock. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-38757761
Every Rolls-Royce pinstripe is painted by Englishman Mark Court, a former village sign painter. It’s the last manufacturing step and needs to be perfect as the paint instantly bonds with the car body and cannot be erased. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://money.cnn.com/2015/04/30/autos/rolls-royce-stripe-painter/
The Academy Awards originally handed out a golden statue called the Academy Award of Merit in 1929. However, the origination of how it became known as an Oscar is a mystery. One story claims that the then Academy librarian, Margaret Herrick, thought the statue resembled her uncle Oscar. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/origins-oscar-how-prized-statue-870191
Nicholas Culpeper was a 17th-century physician who married a wealthy heiress, enabling him to provide his services free of charge. He also translated Latin medical texts into English and published them as self help guides for use by the poor. He believed medicine was a public asset and not a commercial secret. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Culpeper
In early 2019, Hawaii tried to pass a law making the legal smoking age 100. They were also the first state to raise the legal age to 21 back in early 2017. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-47129503
In 1996, a man in Devon, England spent a year hooting at owls and logging their response only to find out his neighbor was unknowingly the ‘owl’ hooting back. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/twit-two-woo-over-the-garden-fence-1252339.html
Since 1988, a dog breeder has been working on The Dire Wolf Project. The goal is creating a breed (American Alsatian) of loving companion dog that resembles a prehistoric dire wolf. They are enormous, scary, shaggy, and by all accounts, sweet. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.direwolfproject.com/
Fireworks have been completely illegal in Florida since 1941, but are sold to people en masse via hundreds of stores across the state to anyone who signs a waiver saying they’re for agricultural use to scare birds away from crops. – WTF Fun Facts