The California sea hare, Aplysia californica, has a combination of defense mechanisms including the release of purple ink and opaline from glands. The ink acts as a smoke screen while the opaline confuses the predator and causes them to try to eat the ink cloud. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_sea_hare
A startup company and the Mongolian government are teaming together to create a new postal code system. They assign each 3 meter square piece of land three word postal code. There are enough words in the English dictionary to account for the 57 trillion 3-meter squares on Earth. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/19/482514949/welcome-to-mongolias-new-postal-system-an-atlas-of-random-words#Where
‘E’ is the most common letter and appears in 11% of all English words. It is nearly 57 times more likely to appear in a word than the letter ‘Q’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/letterfrequencies.html
Setenil de Las Bodegas is a place in Spain where 3,000 residents live, work, and play in a gorge beneath a huge,rocky outcropping – their homes are built into the rock underneath. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setenil_de_las_Bodegas
In 2016, a British man crowdfunded a ten hour film of paint drying in order to force the British Board of Film Classification to watch it. It was a protest against the BBFC requiring independent filmmakers pay £1000 per submission for their certificate. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bbfc-declares-paint-drying-film-a-u-after-sitting-through-all-607-minutes-a6834671.html
Africa has roughly 18 sets of twins per 1000 births. It is the world’s highest rate of twin-births among regions in the developing world. Igbo Ora Town in Nigeria averaged nearly 50 sets per 1000 births when studied in the 1970’s. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://theculturetrip.com/africa/nigeria/articles/this-city-in-nigeria-has-the-highest-rate-of-twins-in-the-world/
After his son tragically died in an accident caused by a pothole, Dadarao Bilhore took it upon himself to fill potholes around Mumbai. Using sand, gravel, and cement collected from building sites, he has filled 600 potholes since 2015 and continues on. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/2164184/his-son-was-killed-mumbais-crumbling-roads-now-dadarao-bilhore
Studies show that there are more bacteria cells (~39 trillion microbial cells) than human cells (~30 trillion cells) in our bodies. Even as many as 40 of our human genes are thought to be bacterial in origin. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sciencealert.com/how-many-bacteria-cells-outnumber-human-cells-microbiome-science
Mothers are asked more questions per hour (23) than teachers (19) and doctors/nurses (18). They are asked the most around meal times (11), followed by while shopping (10) ,and then while reading a story (9). – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9959026/Mothers-asked-nearly-300-questions-a-day-study-finds.html