In order to receive a passport, Dutch immigrants must watch a two-hour video which includes beach nudity as a way of making them aware of the Netherlands’s liberal values. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/16/world/europe/16iht-dutch-5852942.html
Human saliva contains a painkiller called Opiophin that is roughly 6 times more powerful than morphine. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-4.html
Alcatraz’s reputation as a tough place to be imprisoned was a Hollywood myth. Many inmates requested a transfer there because it had good food, hot showers, and a one man per cell policy. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.history.com/news/10-things-you-may-not-know-about-alcatraz
There is a d.i.y Netflix Project which creates a pair of socks that will pause what you’re watching if you fall asleep while watching. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://makeit.netflix.com/projects/socks
The first television broadcast took place in 1925. It was a done with a grey scale image in a 30-line vertically scanned format, at five pictures per second using a ventriloquist’s dummy nicknamed “Stooky Bill”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Logie_Baird
A study found you are more likely to have nightmares if you sleep on your left side instead of your right. – WTF Fun Facts
The world’s most expensive perfume is Clive Christian No. 1 Passant Guardant. It costs $143,000 for 30ml and comes in a flask studded with 2,000 diamonds. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.lux-review.com/2016-the-world-s-most-expensive-perfume-by-clive-christian/
Blue eyes don’t have blue pigment but are instead blue because they scatter light so that only blue light reflects out, similar to the sky and water. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.aao.org/eye-health/tips-prevention/your-blue-eyes-arent-really-blue
During the Great Depression, Arkansas’s treasurer reported a balance of $4.62 for the entire general revenue fund of the state. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/23/weekinreview/23davey.html