Up until 1970, United Airlines had ‘men only’ flights featuring complimentary cigars, cocktails, and a full-course steak dinner in the exclusive company of other men. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://viewfromthewing.com/united-airlines-men-only-executive-service/
There’s a 12-foot-tall replica of the Washington Monument concealed under a manhole on the grounds of the monument. Its used as a surveying tool, which is typically a simple metal rod, but because of its location this special version was installed. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/washington-mini-monument
A new skate park in England will be called “The Skatey McSkateface” after a public vote on social media. The name amassed more votes than the second and third place names combined. – WTF Fun Facts
Oliver “Porky” Bickar was so dedicated to April fools pranks that he flew hundreds of tires into Mt. Edgecumbe, a dormant volcano near Sitka, Alaska, and set them on fire. He fooled both the locals and Coast Guard into thinking the volcano was active. – WTF Fun Facts
Kermit the Frog originally started out on the show Sam and Friends in 1955 as a lizard-like creature made from an old turquoise coat belonging to Jim Henson’s mom and a couple of ping pong balls for eyes.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://gothamist.com/2011/04/19/kermit_the_lizard.php
According to a recent study, watching high-quality television dramas can improve your emotional intelligence and enhance your ability to read other people’s emotions. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/watching_tv_can_boost_emotional_intelligence
In 2016, Daisy Belle Ward, who is the oldest living leap year baby, celebrated her 25th birthday on her 100th year of life. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://people.com/celebrity/oldest-leap-day-baby-in-america/
A startup company and the Mongolian government are teaming together to create a new postal code system. They assign each 3 meter square piece of land three word postal code. There are enough words in the English dictionary to account for the 57 trillion 3-meter squares on Earth. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/19/482514949/welcome-to-mongolias-new-postal-system-an-atlas-of-random-words#Where
‘E’ is the most common letter and appears in 11% of all English words. It is nearly 57 times more likely to appear in a word than the letter ‘Q’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/letterfrequencies.html
In 2016, a British man crowdfunded a ten hour film of paint drying in order to force the British Board of Film Classification to watch it. It was a protest against the BBFC requiring independent filmmakers pay £1000 per submission for their certificate. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bbfc-declares-paint-drying-film-a-u-after-sitting-through-all-607-minutes-a6834671.html
Africa has roughly 18 sets of twins per 1000 births. It is the world’s highest rate of twin-births among regions in the developing world. Igbo Ora Town in Nigeria averaged nearly 50 sets per 1000 births when studied in the 1970’s. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://theculturetrip.com/africa/nigeria/articles/this-city-in-nigeria-has-the-highest-rate-of-twins-in-the-world/
After his son tragically died in an accident caused by a pothole, Dadarao Bilhore took it upon himself to fill potholes around Mumbai. Using sand, gravel, and cement collected from building sites, he has filled 600 potholes since 2015 and continues on. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/2164184/his-son-was-killed-mumbais-crumbling-roads-now-dadarao-bilhore
It takes over 500 years to produce just under an inch of topsoil, which is the most productive layer of soil. This soil is often derived from rock which has to be broken into smaller pieces through either physical or chemical weathering. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://soilsmatter.wordpress.com/2013/08/29/soil-formation/
An economist named Stefan Mandel and his investors won the lottery 14 times (the largest jackpot was $27 million) by calculating when the jackpot was worth more than the cost of buying every possible number combination for that lottery. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/03/27/he-won-lottery-times-using-math-his-biggest-jackpot-still-came-down-luck/
According to Indeed.com, jobs available for ‘Ninjas’ are up 2,505% since 2006. Jobs for “rock stars” or “rocksters” are up 810% and those for “Jedis” are up 67% in the same time period. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/05/jobs-available-ninjas-2505-2006/327924/
The 1933 Double Eagle was a $20 coin made of gold that sold at auction for more than $7.5 million. More than 445,500 coins were minted, but they were never officially circulated and almost all of them were melted down. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1933_double_eagle
Google offers employees free condoms in their campus health center that come in blue, red, green, and yellow and have their trademark ‘I’m Feeling Lucky!’ printed on them. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/google-im-feeling-lucky-condoms-2016-2
WRBH in New Orleans is a radio station for the blind. Each day volunteers read the local newspaper on the air, along with best-sellers, grocery ads, stories for kids, mysteries, the Wall Street Journal, young adult novels and more. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/movies_tv/article_c53e3538-0215-5887-a9a9-bb524b416393.html