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WTF Fun Fact – Antarctica Shrinks Your Brain

Researchers found that living in Antarctica for months on end caused brain shrinkage, especially in the hippocampus. They speculated that … Read More & Source The post WTF Fun Fact – Antarctica Shrinks Your Brain appeared first on WTF Fun Facts. Source

WTF Fun Fact – The World Mosquito Project

The World Mosquito Project cultivates and releases mosquitoes infected with a bacterium called Wolbachia which is passed down to future … Read More & Source The post WTF Fun Fact – The World Mosquito Project appeared first on WTF Fun Facts. Source

WTF Fun Fact – Beagles Can Smell Cancer

In a 2019 study, three beagles were trained to smell cancer from blood samples. They used their highly evolved sense … Read More & Source The post WTF Fun Fact – Beagles Can Smell Cancer appeared first on WTF Fun Facts. Source

10 Prehistoric Giants of Australia

Here is a list of 10 Prehistoric Giants of Australia. 1. Thylacoleo Thylacoleo (“pouch lion”) is an extinct genus of carnivorous marsupials that lived in Australia 2 million to 46 thousand years ago. Thylacoleo was once the largest mammalian carnivores of its time. With extremely powerful forelimbs, and massive claws on its thumbs to rip…… Read More »

WTF Fun Fact – Extinction Is More Likely

The average person is more than five times as likely to die in an human-level extinction event as in a … Read More & Source The post WTF Fun Fact – Extinction Is More Likely appeared first on WTF Fun Facts. Source

18 Scariest Plants in the World

Here are the 18 Scariest Plants in the World. 1. Gympie-Gympie (Dendrocnide Moroides) Gympie-Gympie is a large shrub native to rainforest areas in the northern half of eastern Australia and Indonesia. It is best known for stinging hairs that cover the whole plant and deliver a potent neurotoxin when touched. It is the most toxic…… Read More »

60 Interesting Facts About Languages

Here are 60 Interesting Facts About Languages. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Languages 1. The Chief Translator for the European Parliament Ioannis Ikonomou can speak 32 different languages fluently. – Source 2. German used to be the second most widely spoken language in the US, before it was forcibly repressed during WWI. Many local governments, schools,…… Read More »

WTF Fun Fact – Plant Evolves Camouflage

Researchers have found the Fritillaria delavayi plant, which has been used for 2,000 years in Chinese traditional medicine, has evolved … Read More & Source The post WTF Fun Fact – Plant Evolves Camouflage appeared first on WTF Fun Facts. Source

WTF Fun Fact – Spray On Cast Or Silly String

Silly string was accidentally invented when Leonard A. Fish, an inventor, and Robert P. Cox, a chemist, were testing different … Read More & Source The post WTF Fun Fact – Spray On Cast Or Silly String appeared first on WTF Fun Facts. Source

25 Interesting Facts About Oxygen

Here are 25 Interesting Facts About Oxygen. 1-5 Interesting Facts About Oxygen 1. Tropicana Orange Juice is owned by Pepsico and Simply Orange is owned by Coca Cola. They strip the juice of oxygen before packaging for better storage, which essentially strips the juice of its flavors. The companies then hire other flavor and fragrance…… Read More »

WTF Fun Fact – Reproduced A Mummy’s Voice

Researchers have mimicked the voice of a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy by recreating much of its vocal tract using medical scanners, … Read More & Source The post WTF Fun Fact – Reproduced A Mummy’s Voice appeared first on WTF Fun Facts. Source