Zofia Rydet was a Polish photographer who, in 1978 at age 67, decided to try to shoot the interior of every home in Poland. Over the final 19 years of her life, she shot 20,000 images. – WTF Fun Facts
People
Fun facts about people in history and other weird celebrity facts!
WTF Fun Fact – Colonel Sanders Resume
Before Colonel Harland Sanders started serving (Kentucky) fried chicken at his gas station cafe, he practiced law, delivered babies, sold both life insurance and car tires, and operated a steamboat ferry. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.history.com/news/8-facts-real-colonel-sanders-kfc
WTF Fun Fact – Half-Hangit Maggie
In 1724, a Scottish woman was sentenced to be hanged, but she survived and the court ruled she couldn’t be prosecuted further. She was given the nickname ‘Half-Hangit Maggie’ and lived for another 40 years. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/d/maggiedickson.html
WTF Fun Fact – Paul & Lisa The Vegetarian
Paul McCartney agreed to make a cameo on the TV show The Simpsons only if Lisa Simpson became a vegetarian for the rest of the series. The show agreed and he appeared in season 7 episode titled “Lisa the Vegetarian.” – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Ranald MacDonald
Ranald MacDonald, a bank clerk turned sailor, was the first English teacher in Japan. He taught 14 samurai English while he was held as prisoner. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – US’s Longest Married Gay Couple
In 1970, a gay man discovered a loophole in Minnesota law that said gay marriage wasn’t explicitly illegal, as long as officials allowed it. He then changed his name legally from ‘Jack’ to ‘Pat Lyn’, fooling officials and acquiring their marriage license. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Troublemaker
Nelson Mandela’s African birth name was Rolihlahla. In Xhosa, this literally translates to “pulling the branch of a tree” but more commonly translates to “troublemaker.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.biography.com/political-figure/nelson-mandela
WTF Fun Fact – The Great Lentini
Italian Frank Lentini was born in 1889 with a parasitic twin resulting in three legs, four feet, 16 toes and two genital organs. He earned his living as a circus artist named The Great Lentini. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Rimini’s Survivor
Mr. P is a 101-year-old Italian man who survived both the Spanish Flu and WW2, and has now beat Covid-19 too. He was born in 1919 while the 1918 flu pandemic was raging in his hometown of Rimini. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Savage CEO
Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a nursery built for her newborn in her office. This was at about the same time she stopped allowing parents and others to work from home. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Broke Princess Adopts Men
By the 1980’s, Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt, one of the last German princesses, was so broke she started a business adopting adult men and giving them the royal ‘Prince’ title in exchange for money. She made about 35 regular guys ‘princes’ and in the process made millions. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie-Auguste_of_Anhalt
WTF Fun Fact – Anatoli Brouchkov
Anatoli Brouchkov, a Russian geocryologist, injected himself with a 3.5 million year old strain of bacteria known as Bacillus F, which he found in a permafrost sample, just to see what would happen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yp3gg7/meet-the-scientist-who-injected-himself-with-35-million-year-old-bacteria
WTF Fun Fact – Hasan Kale Artist
Turkish artist Hasan Kale paints miniature pictures on foods such as; peanuts, pumpkin seeds, almonds, banana slices, chocolates, and many more. Due to the size of his canvases, he uses a magnifying glass while painting. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.hasankale.com/wm/
WTF Fun Fact – Amelia Earhart Marriage Proposal
Amelia Earhart rejected her eventual husband, George Putnam’s, marriage proposals five times and finally accepted the sixth offer but agreed only to a temporary, one-year marriage to test the feasibility of the relationship. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/amelia-earhart-letter-to-fiance_n_4591561?guccounter=1
WTF Fun Fact – King Of Rocketry
Qian Xuesen, a Chinese rocket scientist and mathematician, worked on the Manhattan Project during WW2 to help America build the world’s first atomic bomb. During the Cold War, he was accused of being a communist and fled to China, where he helped China build its first atomic bomb. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
WTF Fun Fact – James Christopher Harrison
James Christopher Harrison is an Australian blood donor whose rare plasma composition has helped in the treatment of Rhesus disease. In May 2018, he made his final donation (1173rd) at the age of 81 after having saved 2.4m babies during his lifetime as a donor. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.straitstimes.com/asia/australianz/australian-man-with-golden-arm-makes-final-blood-donation-at-81-after-saving-24m
WTF Fun Fact
The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York holds the world’s oldest piano. The piano dates back to 1720 and was one of Bartolomeo Cristofori’s (inventor of the piano) earliest creations. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.pianistmagazine.com/blogs/the-worlds-oldest-piano-1/
WTF Fun Fact – Federal Crime Or Not
In 1955, Federal agents arrested John Gilbert Graham for blowing up an airplane but learned that it was not in fact a federal crime to blow up an airplane. Colorado instead charged him for the murder of his mother, a passenger on the plane. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Gilbert_Graham