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WTF Fun Fact – What Do You Give A Queen On Her Birthday?

February 12, 2020 by WTF

On the Queen of England’s birthday in 2015, she was given a gift of £5,000 worth of stud sperm by horse breeder Christina Patino. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/queen-elizabeths-91st-birthday-2017-the-weirdest-gifts-her-majesty-has-ever-received_uk_58f9d670e4b00fa7de131965?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAMsMKqa7WZh2e1b4AvCjvBnlo8F8SXTxHOXbAZUQa-_0614wgdq5kmE5z_C3kI4ABDDRsfduqi_luDaTXslk4-k-I07Z2h1i4lP24Vl0LGNyVkqhMeWJlV7qTNSPvGlp_B1Y8Y3cChiW-j3AiE1nomHeyADhfld92f_pLXtuWqpV

WTF Fun Fact – Ronald McNair

February 12, 2020 by WTF

In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in S. Carolina when 9yr-old Ronald McNair refused to leave. He later got a PhD in Physics from MIT and died in 1986 aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named after him. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_McNair

WTF Fun Fact – Thomas Jennings

February 11, 2020February 11, 2020 by WTF

In 1821, an African American business owner named Thomas Jennings invented the dry cleaning process and was one of the first African Americans to be granted a patent. He used the proceeds from his invention to buy his wife and children out of slavery. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_L._Jennings

WTF Fun Fact – John List

February 10, 2020 by WTF

John List killed his entire family in 1971. The murders were so precisely planned, it took a month for anyone to notice. He was finally caught in 1989, after a forensic artist created a lifelike bust of him which appeared on America’s Most Wanted. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_List#Relocation,_arrest_and_trial

WTF Fun Fact – Kon-Tiki Expedition

February 9, 2020 by WTF

In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl, a Norwegian adventurer and scientist, sailed 5,000 miles across the Pacific in a handbuilt raft (known as the Kon-Tiki Expedition to prove the ancients could’ve accomplished this too. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Heyerdahl

WTF Fun Fact – Fidel Castro Facts

February 8, 2020 by WTF

Fidel Castro, the Cuban dictator who died at age 90, slept with ~35,000 women, smoked his first cigar at age 14, and believed he survived nearly 600 assassination attempts. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/fidel-castro-quotes

WTF Fun Fact – Surat Maryam

February 7, 2020 by WTF

Mary, or Maryam in Islam, is mentioned more frequently in the Qur’an than she is in the Holy Bible. Mary is the only woman named in the Qur’an and the 19th chapter is even named for her (Surat Maryam). – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=pYPnNN8oUHIC&pg=PA32&lpg=PA32&dq=Virgin+Mary+%22more+times%22+Qur%E2%80%99an+Bible+.&source=bl&ots=tbDTgivMBs&sig=aZ_v2opYUH-_rt9wNPfL79xR0FQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiYqZ-Jo_jNAhViJsAKHZLxC4cQ6AEIPDAF#v=onepage&q=Virgin%20Mary%20%22more%20times%22%20Qur%E2%80%99an%20Bible%20.&f=false

WTF Fun Fact – Da Vinci’s Contact Lenses

February 6, 2020 by WTF

Leonardo da Vinci is often credited with being the first to introduce the idea of contact lenses in his 1508 Codex of the eye, Manual D. However, his ideas for implementing the lenses was entirely impractical. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_lens

WTF Fun Fact – Bob Dylan Corrupts Beatles

February 2, 2020 by WTF

WTF Fun Fact - Bob Dylan And The Beatles

In 1964, when Bob Dylan first met The Beatles, he had misheard the lyrics to I Want to Hold Your Hand as “I get high” instead of “I can’t hide”, and showed up to meet them ready to smoke. He gave a joint to Ringo, who didn’t realize he was supposed to pass it and smoked the whole thing himself. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://liveforlivemusic.com/features/bob-dylan-beatles-marijuana-1964/

WTF Fun Fact – Don’t Drink Bacterium, Or Do

August 25, 2020February 1, 2020 by WTF

WTF Fun Fact - H. pylori Bacteria Causes Ulcer

Dr. Barry J. Marshall proved to the medical community that ulcers weren’t caused by stomach acid by drinking Helicobacter pylori bacterium. He developed stomach ulcers within days, treated them with antibiotics, and went on to win a Nobel Prize. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4934498

WTF Fun Fact – Mummy Goo

January 31, 2020 by WTF

Climate change is turning the world’s oldest mummies into black goo. For 7,000 years, these mummies have survived in Chile’s Atacama Desert, but humidity in the area has risen enough to cause rapid mummy decomposition. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.seas.harvard.edu/news/2015/03/saving-chilean-mummies-climate-change

WTF Fun Fact – Hunter Gatherer Details

January 31, 2020 by WTF

Women are better at discerning shades of colors, while men are better at tracking fast-moving objects and identifying detail from a distance. These are evolutionary details linked to our hunter-gatherer past. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/09/120907-men-women-see-differently-science-health-vision-sex/

WTF Fun Fact – Bob Dylan Medical Papers

January 29, 2020 by WTF

A recent study of biomedical papers published through May 2015 found 213 references “unequivocally citing” Bob Dylan. The singer/songwriter’s most popular songs referenced were “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” which had 135 citations, and “Blowin’ in the Wind,” which had 36 citations. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/why-so-many-dylan-lyrics-medical-studies-answer-my-friend-n480466

WTF Fun Fact – Draco Was Draconian

January 29, 2020 by WTF

Draco was an Athenian lawyer who gave the city of Athens its first written laws. The word Draconian originated from his name as his laws were so brutal. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://historycollection.co/16-dramatic-and-bizarre-ways-people-died-in-ancient-greece-and-the-hellenistic-world/5/

WTF Fun Fact – Sleeping With A Fan In Space

January 26, 2020 by WTF

WTF Fun Fact - Astronauts Sleep With Fans

Astronauts in space need to sleep near fans so that when they exhale, there isn’t a CO2 cloud in front of their face causing them to potentially suffocate. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.quora.com/Do-astronauts-on-the-ISS-need-to-sleep-with-a-fan-on-or-in-some-way-have-moving-air-around-them

WTF Fun Fact – Friendly Big Ed Kemper

July 13, 2020January 25, 2020 by WTF

Serial killer Ed Kemper befriended the very police officers investigating his murders and would socialize with them at a bar called the Jury Room. They called him “Big Ed” and never suspected him and thought he was joking when he confessed. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://tpgonlinedaily.com/dark-side-history-edmund-kemper/

WTF Fun Fact – Stalin’s Secret Fecal Lab

January 24, 2020 by WTF

Joseph Stalin had a secret lab that analyzed the poop of foreign leaders in order to build a psychological profile for them. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-35427926

WTF Fun Fact – Jake Gyllenhaal Frod-Oh No

January 24, 2020 by WTF

Actor Jake Gyllenhaal tried out for the part of Frodo in the Lord of the Rings but was not even aware he had to have a British accent for the role, resulting in one of the worst auditions they had. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bp/jake-gyllenhaal-says-audition-frodo-hot-mess-201512105.html