After revolutionary Che Guevara’s execution in Bolivia in 1967, his hands were severed from his body for purposes of fingerprint identification. The hands and body were then lost until his buried body was found in 1997 under a landing strip in Bolivia. His hands remain missing. – WTF Fun Facts
People
Fun facts about people in history and other weird celebrity facts!
WTF Fun Fact – Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman
Cyptanalyst Elizebeth Friedman and her team broke ~4,000 codes during WWII and brought down a Nazi spy ring by cracking an early version of the Enigma machine with only pen and paper. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: How Codebreaker Elizebeth Friedman Fought Nazi Spies | American Experience | Official Site | PBS
WTF Fun Fact – Unusual Punishment With An Unusual Result
A high school principal once punished a student by making him sit in the basement and read the U.S. Constitution. That student (who then memorized parts of the constitution) was Thurgood Marshall – the first black Supreme Court justice. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Origin Of Walken’s Speaking Style
Majority of the people Christopher Walken interacted with as a child were non-native English speakers, including his father. Walken attributes his unique halting speaking style to watching people hesitate to think of the right English word. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.grunge.com/90509/untold-truth-christopher-walken/
WTF Fun Fact – Heroic Medic Waverly Woodson
Waverly Woodson was a medic who treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day while injured himself. Despite sustaining shrapnel injuries himself while landing, he set up an aid station and treated wounds for 30 hours, at one point even amputating a foot. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: A Black Medic Was Hailed as a D-Day Hero. Was He Deprived of a Medal of Honor? – HISTORY
WTF Fun Fact – Unique Escape From Federal Prison
In 2006, prisoner Richard Lee McNair got himself a job in prison repairing mail bags. He created a “pod” that fit under the mail bags on a pallet and a forklift transported him out of the prison. A police officer ran into him the same day of his escape but didn’t realize he was the escapee and he successfully fled to Canada. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Oklahoma Murderer Once Escaped Prison For The Third Time By ‘Mailing Himself Out’ – UNILAD
WTF Fun Fact – Inuit Ridicule Song Duel
Some Inuit groups used ridicule in the form of song duels as a means of conflict resolution. Two men who had failed to resolve a conflict by other means would compose derisive songs about the other. The whole camp gathered to observe the song duel and pick a winner. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Settling Our Differences Through Song? | The Toombs Take (psu.edu)
WTF Fun Fact – Untergunther
For over a year in the mid-2000s, members of the group Untergunther broke into the French Pantheon and repaired a clock which had been broken for 40 years. They were later taken to court for their efforts and eventually let off with a warning. In 2018, one of the members, clock restorer Jean-Baptiste Viot, was hired to repair it after it was further neglected. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Secret French illegal clock restorer gets the job (connexionfrance.com)
WTF Fun Fact – The Jail Houdini
In the 1980s, Florida prisoner and savant Mark DeFriest built a device that catapulted himself over the prison walls, escaping before being caught again. He has escaped 7 times on 13 attempts resulting in his original 4-year sentence becoming 104 years.–WTF Fun Facts
Source: “Jailed for Stealing Tools in 1980, ‘Prison Houdini’ Is Denied Release” — New York Times
WTF Fun Fact – Stephen Hawking On The Immortality Drive
The DNA sequence of Stephen Hawking is stored on a hard disk, called the “Immortality Drive,” onboard the ISS. He is among a select group of humans to have their DNA immortalized. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Immortality Drive – Wikipedia
WTF Fun Fact – Sleepdrawer Lee Hadwin
Lee Hadwin was previously a nurse by profession during the day, but while he dreamt he was an artist. Hadwin “sleepdraws” gorgeous works of art, of which he has no recollection afterwards. He has been drawing in his sleep since he was 4-years-old.–WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – The Original Cost Of Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 on coin-operated typewriters in the basement of a library at a cost of $.10 for every 30 minutes. The first draft cost him a total of $9.80. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Decibel Or 1/10th Of A Bel
A Decibel is not its own unit, but actually 1/10th of the seldom used “Bel”, a unit named in honor of Alexander Graham Bell for his contribution to acoustics. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Color Blind Crayon Molder
When he retired in 1990 after molding 1.4 billion crayons, Crayola’s most senior crayon molder, Emerson Moser, revealed that he was actually blue-green color blind. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Crayola Has Another Surprise: Top Crayon Maker Colorblind (apnews.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Robert Downey Jr. Naked And Red Handed
In 1996, Robert Downey Jr. was stopped by police after driving naked in his Porsche on Sunset Boulevard. He was also found in possession of cocaine, heroin and a .357 Magnum. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Robert Downey Jr. – Movies, Height & Iron Man – Biography
WTF Fun Fact – Freddie Mercury Wild Party
Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury once threw a party where he had dwarves walk around with plates full of cocaine strapped to the tops of their heads, as an offering to his guests. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Skilly Wonka
Roald Dahl’s inspiration for the name of his fictional creation Willy Wonka came from a boomerang his older brother had made for him when he was a boy, which he named Skilly Wonka. – WTF Fun Facts
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WTF Fun Fact – Winnie ille Pu
Winnie ille Pu is a 1958 translation of Winnie the Pooh into Latin by Alexander Lenard. The book became the first foreign-language and only Latin book to make The New York Times Best Seller list. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Winnie ille Pu – Wikipedia