Researchers have developed an efficient and eco-friendly catalytic reactor that can convert the common air pollutant CO2 into high concentrations of pure formic acid, which can be used as a liquid fuel.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://thetartan.org/2019/9/9/scitech/greenhouse-fuel
In 1951, Walt Disney hired a maid named Thelma Howard. He gifted her shares of Disney stock each Christmas. When she died in 1994, she had 192,000 shares worth $9 million. She left the majority to her foundation supporting disadvantaged kids. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://people.com/archive/saving-grace-vol-42-no-21/
The British have a one in 300 chance of being related to a complete stranger they meet in their homeland. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blogs.ancestry.com/cm/theres-a-1-in-300-chance-that-a-complete-stranger-is-your-cousin/
Rick Rescorla saved all but 6 of his 2700 employees during the 9/11 attacks by directing people down the stairs using a bullhorn and encouraging them by singing Cornish songs. – WTF Fun Facts
William G. Thilly, the inventor of Apple Jacks cereal, is now a professor of biological engineering at MIT and invented the cereal while he was a summer intern. – WTF Fun Facts
The blue-banded bee (Amegilla murrayensis) head-bangs flowers 350x a second in order to obtain pollen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.sci-news.com/biology/australian-blue-banded-bees-headbanging-flowers-03518.html
Over 50% of pilots surveyed in the U.K., Norway, and Sweden admitted to have fallen asleep while flying a passenger plane. A third of them stated that when they woke up, they discovered that their co-pilots had also fallen asleep. – WTF Fun Facts
An Australian man and his two daughters found a gold nugget weighing 624 grams (worth ~$35,000) while walking their dog. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=12230581
A dead gecko can stick to a surface for up to 30 minutes after its death. Research has shown their sticking force is passive and just as effective dead or alive. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/death-will-not-stop-geckos-sticking-walls/