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Researchers found that male bottlenose dolphins in Shark Bay in Western Australia have formed "boy bands" that harmonize their mating calls together in order to better attract females. – WTF Fun Fact...

Canadian researchers watched 40 episodes of 'The Dr. Oz Show' and found that nearly 40% of the medical advice is not evidence-based, and 15% goes directly against evidence. – WTF Fun Facts Source:...

In 1986, all game designers working for Konami were forbidden to attach their real name to any project. Instead, they had to create a fake name to be listed in the game’s credits. This was to help ke...

Bruce Bridgeman, a 67-year-old neuroscientist, had been "stereoblind" (unable to see depth) his entire life. However, in February 2012 it was permanently cured after he saw the movie "Hugo" in 3D at ...

The province of Ontario in Canada has more than 250,000 lakes which contain about one-fifth of the world's fresh water. – WTF Fun Facts Source: About Ontario | Ontario.ca

The World Mosquito Project cultivates and releases mosquitoes infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia which is passed down to future generations. The bacterium appears to block mosquitos from tran...

Back during the Soviet Union, high school students learned how to assemble and take apart an AK-47 in class. In 2019, Russia's Education Ministry published a set of methodological guidelines again ca...

In a 2019 study, three beagles were trained to smell cancer from blood samples. They used their highly evolved sense of smell to pick out blood samples from people with lung cancer with nearly 97% pe...

Female Greenland sharks are believed to reach sexual maturity when they surpass the 13 ft. in length, which takes approximately 150 years to achieve. – WTF Fun Facts Source: Greenland shark | Size...

Oxford English Dictionary editors recently revealed that “run” is now the single word with the most potential meanings in all of English, have over 645 different usage cases for the verb form alone. ...