In 2014, to protest shopping holiday Black Friday, Cards Against Humanity sold 30,000 boxes labeled “Bullshit” to shoppers for $6 each. The boxes contained actual bull feces. All the profits were donated to charity. – WTF Fun Facts
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WTF Fun Fact – Ina Koenig
Ina Koenig, a German kindergarten teacher, jumped down a 75-foot mine shaft when one of her 3-year-old students accidentally fell down it. The shaft was flooded with cold water and for more than 2 hours she kept the child’s head above water until help arrived. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.growingyourbaby.com/teacher-plunges-into-75ft-deep-shaft-to-save-3-year-olds-life/
WTF Fun Fact – Sir Terry Pratchett’s Sword
When Sir Terry Pratchett found out he was to be knighted, he dug up a bunch of iron ore and smelted it for his sword in a homemade kiln. He also included some meteorites to give it a bit of “magic”. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Drunken Tommy Fitz
After a barroom bet, Thomas Fitzpatrick stole a plane from a New Jersey airport and landed it on a Manhattan street in front of the bar in 1956. He did it again 2 years later when someone refused to believe him. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Viking Signal
In Denmark, there are some traffic signals with small viking figures. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – The Alexander Piano
In New Zealand, then 16-year-old Adrian Mann built one of the world’s largest grand pianos, which he named the Alexander Piano. It is almost 19 feet long and weighs ~1.2 tons. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/huge-piano-was-built-schoolboy
WTF Fun Fact – Inscriptio Cursus Electronici
Vatican officials tasked with finding Latin words for modern English words have translated the internet to inter rete and emails to inscriptio cursus electronici. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2012/aug/31/pope-benedict-latin-academy
WTF Fun Fact – 10022-SHOE Zip Code
As a result of a 2007 partnership with the USPS, NYC’s Saks Fifth Avenue flagship store’s 8,500 sq.ft. shoe department has its own zip code: 10022-SHOE. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Bahia Emerald
The Bahia emerald is a giant emerald from Brazil weighing over 800 lbs and containing 180,000 carats of precious gemstone. It has been at the center of an ownership dispute since 2008 and has an estimated worth of over $300 million. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.gemsociety.org/article/worlds-largest-emeralds/
WTF Fun Fact – F-106 Lands Itself
In 1970, an F-106 pilot engaging in mock combat lost control in a dive, ejected, and then the plane righted itself. It continued to fly and landed softly in a snowy field. The F-106 was later recovered with minimal damage and returned to service. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Lithuania Crawling Race
For over the past 20 years, Lithuania has held an annual crawling race for babies. The babies are aged between seven months and a year and compete in heats along a five-meter, carpeted track. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.euronews.com/2019/06/05/quickest-crawler-crowned-in-lithuanian-baby-race
WTF Fun Fact – Hungarian Response
The profane Hungarian response to being given an unreasonably large workload is “bekergettek tatott szajjal a faszerdobe,” or “They chased me into the dick-forest with a wide open mouth.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vnutz.com/curse_and_swear/hungarian
WTF Fun Fact – Skydecks
There are four glass platforms suspended 1,353 feet in the air, located on the Willis Tower’s 103rd floor Skydeck. The observation perches have walls, floors, and ceilings made entirely of glass. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://theskydeck.com/
WTF Fun Fact – Worlds Largest Snowflake
The Guinness world record for the largest snowflake was a snowflake 15 inches in diameter and 8 inches thick recorded at Fort Keogh, Montana in 1887. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Emergency Bra
In 2010, Dr. Elena Bodnar created the “Emergency Bra” which can be unhooked and split into two face masks which filter out harmful chemicals. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.ebbra.com/
WTF Fun Fact – Financier’s Joke Of A Will
Charles Vance Millar, a rich Canadian financier, made his will one last practical joke. In it, he left three men who hated each other a joint lifetime tenancy in a villa, some protestant ministers $700,000 in Catholic beer stock, and anti-horse racing advocates $25,000 in Jockey club stock. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – California Pipevine Swallowtail
Tim Wong, a 28-year-old aquatic biologist from northern California, has single-handedly repopulated the rare California Pipevine Swallowtail butterfly species in his backyard! – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.disclose.tv/biologist-singlehandedly-repopulated-a-rare-butterfly-species-in-his-backyard-371202
WTF Fun Fact – Skywriting
There are only six full-time skywriters, those who use aircraft to expel special smoke during flight in patterns that create readable words from the ground, left in the world. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/qjd347/there-are-only-six-full-time-skywriters-left-in-the-world