The hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus) uses a vacuum in its mouth to suck in prey that is as large as it is in just 1/6000th of a second. Despite having only 5mm palatal teeth, it has the fastest ‘bite’ in the animal kingdom. – WTF Fun Facts
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The Toddlers’ Truce was a piece of British TV scheduling policy in the 1940’s that required transmissions to stop between 6pm and 7pm. Children’s programming ended at 6, which allowed young children to be put to bed before the evening programming at 7. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toddlers%27_Truce
German WW2 prisoners of war were treated so well in Canadian prisons that many didn’t want to leave the country when released. Thousands of PoW’s stayed in Canada or came back years later. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://legionmagazine.com/en/2012/03/the-happiest-prisoners/
In 1912, Jim Thorpe, an American Indian, won two Olympic gold medals with a mismatched pair of shoes taken from the garbage. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe
The Washington Monument is capped with a 9″, 100 ounce aluminum pyramid. Aluminum was a precious metal in 1884 and the pyramid was displayed at Tiffany’s jewelry store in New York before it was placed at the top. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_monument_3.html
In 2012, Choi Gap-bok escaped from prison by squeezing his body through a 5.9″ tall and 17.7″ wide food slot when the guards were sleeping. He is a yoga practitioner and applied skin ointment to his body in order to slip out. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/choi-gap-bok-prison-escape_n_1919866
In 2018, Snoop Dogg set the world record for the largest paradise cocktail with a ~132 gallon gin and juice at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. It contained 180 bottles of gin, 154 bottles of apricot brandy, and just 38 jugs of orange juice. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/05/29/snoop-dogg-breaks-guinness-world-record-largest-gin-and-juice/650560002/
The anthropologist Grover Krantz, who was infamous for believing in Bigfoot’s existence, donated his body to the Smithsonian on the condition his dogs were kept close to him. The museum honored his request. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://remains417.rssing.com/chan-35265043/all_p3.html
Avocados nearly went extinct 13,000 years ago after large animals like the mammoth and giant ground sloth went extinct. With no means of dispersing the seeds, it was left to early farmers to cultivate the species. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-avocado-should-have-gone-the-way-of-the-dodo-4976527/