Fun facts about people in history and other weird celebrity facts!
A Ukranian couple tried to save their relationship by handcuffing themselves together on Valentine’s Day in 2021. The arrangement lasted 123 days before they called it quits for good. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Ukraine’s inseparable couple ditches the handcuffs and parts ways — Reuters
In 2012, Jose Alvarenga, a Salvadorian fisherman, survived 438 days on a small boat in the Pacific Ocean. With no motor, GPS, or food, he survived on fish, turtles, jellyfish, and seabirds. He is believed to be the longest surviving castaway. – WTF Fun Facts
In 1994, Kurt Warner was cut from the NFL and got a job at a grocery store in Iowa. Four years later, Warner would lead the St. Louis Rams to their only Super Bowl win, setting several league records, and winning both the NFL regular season MVP and Super Bowl MVP. – WTF Fun Facts
Actor Joe Pesci was a singer and guitar player in his early 20’s and once played in the same band (called Joey Dee and the Starliters) as Jimi Hendrix.–WTF Fun Facts
Source:https://www.thevintagenews.com/2019/04/09/joe-pesci-and-jimi-hendrix/
Michelangelo hid in a secret room under the Medici Chapel in Florence for 3 months during a period of political turmoil, occupying his time by sketching on the walls. His whereabouts were a secret for ~500 years until the museum director stumbled upon the room in 1976. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2018/06/03/615181742/this-room-is-thought-to-have-been-michelangelos-secret-hideaway-and-drawing-boar?t=1643625131637
In 2012, a 90-year-old Baltimore woman named Venus Green locked a police officer in her basement when he tried searching her home without a warrant. Afterwards she brought a civil rights lawsuit and won a $95,000 settlement. – WTF Fun Facts
When engineers showed the first iPod prototype to Steve Jobs, he examined it carefully then dropped it in an aquarium and used the air bubbles to prove there was empty space and it could be made even smaller. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Steve Jobs Threw iPod Prototype Into an Aquarium to Prove a Point (businessinsider.com)
The honorary members of the Harlem Globetrotters include two popes (Pope John Paul II & Pope Francis), Nelson Mandela, Whoopi Goldberg, Bob Hope, Henry Kissinger, and a few others. – WTF Fun Facts
In 1970, Jimmy Carter hired a convicted murderer (Mary Prince) on work release as a maid at the governor’s mansion. When he was elected president in 1976, he volunteered to be her parole officer and let her continue working at the White House. She was later exonerated. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Mary Prince (nanny) – Wikipedia
Hockey goalie Clint Malarchuk’s throat got slashed by a skate during a live NHL game. The wound was so bad that it needed 300 stitches. Clint was back on the ice just a couple of weeks later. He would later survive a self-inflicted gunshot wound and the bullet still remains in his forehead. – WTF Fun Facts
Ringo Starr sells prints of his MS Paint art for thousands of dollars on his website. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Yer Baby – Ringo Starr Art
An escaped robber known as “Roofman” (Jeffrey Allen Manchester) created a secret hideout inside a Toys “R” Us. He played with toys, watched DVDs, ate baby food, and installed a baby video monitor to keep an eye on the store. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Escaped-robber-returns-to-annals-of-weird-crime-2706176.php
In 1986, Christopher Knight, the “North Pond Hermit,” disappeared in to the woods of Maine for 27 years and survived by committing ~1000 burglaries of nearby cabins and homes. – WTF Fun Facts
Hiram Maxim, the inventor of the automatic machine gun, spent so much time test-firing his guns that he became completely deaf. His son Hiram Percy Maxim eventually invented the silencer, but too late to save his father’s hearing. – WTF Fun Facts
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The 1934 mystery novel Cain’s Jawbone by Edward Powys Mathers is printed with its 100 pages out of order. To solve the mystery, readers must determine the correct page order as well the names of the 6 murderers and 6 victims. The mystery has only ever officially been solved by 3 people. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Cain’s Jawbone – Wikipedia
When Dr. Joyce Brothers was a contestant on The $64,000 Question, the show’s sponsor Revlon tried to get rid of her because she didn’t wear makeup on air. She was asked increasingly obscure questions but was able to answer them all correctly and became the first woman to win the top prize. – WTF Fun Facts
Nicholas Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day they met. She jokingly requested a list of impossible things to ‘win her’, such as J.D. Salinger’s autograph. She got spooked when he started acquiring many of the items and avoided him. They met again years later and went on to marry. – WTF Fun Facts
Jeremy Meeks’ mugshot was so good that he got a modeling contract while he was still in jail. He served 13 months in jail and walked in NY Fashion Week a year later. He also walked in Milan Fashion Week, helped launch a fashion line, acted – all within 5 years of his release. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Jeremy Meeks – Wikipedia