A 2015 research study on the efficiency of mosquito repellents found that Victoria’s Secret’s Bombshell perfume actually repelled mosquito’s better than nearly all the other non-DEET products. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/mosquitoes-repelled-by-victorias-secret-perfume-2015-11
Nematode’s (also known as the roundworm) sperm does not swim but crawls using its cytoskeleton instead. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://jcs.biologists.org/content/115/2/367
There’s a type of honey called mad honey which causes hallucinations. Honey hunters in Nepal make the dangerous vertical climb to harvest it because it sells for up to $80 a pound. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/07/honey-hunters-bees-climbing-nepal/
You receive a higher dose of radiation living next to a coal plant than you do a nuclear plant. This is due to the fly ash emitted by the power plant which is 100x more radiation than a similar nuclear plants waste. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/
A study found that each year arthropods (like millipedes, spiders and ants) eat over 2,100 pounds of junk food discarded in New York City’s Broadway/West St. corridor in Manhattan. That’s the equivalent of 60,000 hot dogs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/3039379/new-york-ants-eat-the-equivalent-of-60000-hot-dogs-a-year-in-food-we-drop
The Colombian river Cano Cristales is commonly called the River of Five Colors or Liquid Rainbow because of its striking colors. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20190320-colombias-river-of-five-colours
Your tooth enamel is harder than a lobster’s shell or a rhino’s horn. It’s even harder than steel. It’s made of mineralized calcium phosphate, which is the hardest substance a living being can produce. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tooth_enamel
In Germany, those who urinate in the streets are known as wildpinklers, meaning “free pee-ers”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thelocal.de/20151127/cologne-wards-off-drunks-with-walls-that-pee-back
IBM launched the 305 RAMAC, the first computer with a hard disk drive (HDD) in September 1956. The HDD weighed over a ton and stored 5MB of data. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://ed-thelen.org/RAMAC/Myths.html