Fun facts about people in history and other weird celebrity facts!
Steve Whiteley, a British 61-year-old heating engineer, turned a £2 bet into nearly £1.5 million after picking all 6 horse race winners to win the jackpot. The winning horse in the final race hadn’t won in their previous 28 races. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2011/mar/08/steve-whiteley-tote-jackpot-millionaire
Leandro Granato is a 27 year old Argentinian artist with an unusual painting method. He is able to snort nearly a quart of watercolor paint up his nose and squirt it out his eye to make paintings similar to one of his inspirations: Jackson Pollock. – WTF Fun Facts
In 1932, Winston Churchill agreed to have tea with Adolf Hitler at the Regina hotel in Munich. However, he was stood up and then stood up again for the re-scheduled meeting the next day. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jan/10/film-churchill-hitler-tea-winston-nazi
Stephen Wiltshire is an autistic artist with the amazing ability to draw any landscape from memory after seeing it just once. He drew a 19 ft long picture of New York City from memory after just a 20-minute helicopter ride over the city. – WTF Fun Facts
Malaysian “Magnet Man” Liew Thow Lin has the ability to stick up to 36 kg worth of 2 kg or smaller metal objects to his body without any adhesive. Researchers found he has no magnetic field but his skin has very high levels of friction creating the suction effect. – WTF Fun Facts
Gary Kremen, the founder of Match.com, one of the world’s largest and most popular online dating websites, lost his girlfriend to a guy she met on Match.com. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.yahoo.com/news/50-facts-unbelievable-ll-accuse-194256626/photo-span-gary-kremen-founder-dating-photo-195427997.html
The 1977 film Viva Knievel! starred Evel Knievel as himself but used stunt double Gary Charles Davis for the more dangerous motorcycle stunts. – WTF Fun Facts
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/
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
September 11, 2001 was Ben Sliney’s first day on the job as United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Operations Manager. He was responsible for ordering a national ground stop across US airspace in response to the terrorist attacks of 9/11. – WTF Fun Facts
Contrary to his modern day image as a ruthless tyrant, the infamous pirate Blackbeard actually spurned violence, preferring to rely on intimidation tactics, and never harmed or murdered anyone he held captive. – WTF Fun Facts
Peter I of Russia created a club for his friends known as the Jolly Company, The Drunken Synod, and many other names, but it was simply a council of drunken fools, whose sole job was to drink and party. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_All-Joking,_All-Drunken_Synod_of_Fools_and_Jesters
After every tea Alfred Hitchcock finished on set, he would throw the tea cup and saucer over his shoulder allowing them to shatter on the ground. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2015/08/04/15-things-you-may-not-know-about-alfred-hitchcock-5317037/
A slave, Nathan “Nearest” Green, originally taught Jack Daniels how to make whiskey and is now credited as their first master distiller. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathan_%22Nearest%22_Green
In 2015, Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson captured the world record for the most selfies taken in 3 minutes with 105 snaps at the world premiere of his movie San Andreas. The record is currently at 168. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/dwayne-johnson-breaks-selfie-world-5742378
Ian Martin was hired as a swearing consultant for BBC’s political comedy series The Thick Of It. The script would be sent to Ian to add more “colorful language.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ian_Martin_(writer)
Tom Brady is selling his customized stretch Escalade for $300,000. There are five back seats under a raised roof, including two VIP electric recliners with hand veneered burl wood folding tables. It has ~13,000 miles on the odometer. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://robbreport.com/motors/cars/tom-brady-2017-becker-cadillac-escalade-sale-2924155/
When Lady Gaga was studying at NYU, her classmates made a Facebook group called “Stefani Germanotta, you will never be famous” where they bullied her. She dropped out after only a year to pursue her music career full time. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-01-17/when-they-dissed-future-lady-gaga