Fun facts about people in history and other weird celebrity facts!
Terry Davis was a schizophrenic programmer who spent 10 years of his life programming a DOS-like operating system called TempleOS. He did so because God told him to build a successor to the Second Temple in the form of an operating system. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_A._Davis
In 2016, a study found that 48% of Thailand’s Buddhist monks were overweight. Some temples launched nutritional programs and a local hospital launched a special girdle that tightens around the waist as a gentle reminder. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35812339
Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, who played Mr. Miyagi in the 1984 classic Karate Kid, was 2 years old when he contracted spinal tuberculosis and was confined to a bed in a sanitarium for 9 years. When experimental medicine finally cured him, he was sent to live in an internment camp in Arizona with his family. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://people.com/archive/after-a-lifetime-of-misfortune-karate-kids-noriyuki-pat-morita-battles-his-way-to-a-happy-ending-vol-25-no-26/
When the CEO of supermarket chain ALDI, Theo Albrecht, was kidnapped, he haggled down his ransom amount with his abductors and claimed the sum as a tax-deductible business expense in court after his release. He then became a recluse. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/theo-albrecht-one-of-the-two-brothers-behind-the-aldi-supermarket-empire-2052354.html
Every Rolls-Royce pinstripe is painted by Englishman Mark Court, a former village sign painter. It’s the last manufacturing step and needs to be perfect as the paint instantly bonds with the car body and cannot be erased. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://money.cnn.com/2015/04/30/autos/rolls-royce-stripe-painter/
Nicholas Culpeper was a 17th-century physician who married a wealthy heiress, enabling him to provide his services free of charge. He also translated Latin medical texts into English and published them as self help guides for use by the poor. He believed medicine was a public asset and not a commercial secret. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Culpeper
Leonardo Da Vinci once created a replica of a heart valve by pouring hot wax into an oxen’s heart, making a mold of thin glass from the cast, and then pumping water mixed with seeds through it. He identified vortices which help close the heart valve after each beat. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.rct.uk/collection/919082/the-aortic-valve
Charles Darwin once made a list of the pros and cons for marriage, the pros included: ‘constant companion and a friend in old age better than a dog anyhow.’ The cons: ‘less money for books’ and ‘terrible loss of time.’ – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/2739/2739-h/2739-h.htm
In 1978, rock band Aerosmith paid approximately $4200 to bail out every single fan that was arrested when cops invaded the crowd on a pot bust during one of their concer random fact, random facts, random funny fact, wtf fun fact, funny facts, ts. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://ultimateclassicrock.com/aerosmith-bails-out-fans-after-concert-pot-bust/
Tate’s Hell State Park is a 202,000 acre forest/swamp near Carrabelle,FL. Legend has it that it’s named after a man that got lost in the wilderness. When he emerged, he told a passerby “My name is Cebe Tate, and I just came from Hell” before collapsing. – WTF Fun Facts
Lewis Fry Richardson, considered the father of modern weather forecasting, derived many of the complex equations needed for weather prediction in the 1920’s. However, the math was so difficult that to predict the weather for the next six hours took him six weeks to do the calculations. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-23242953
In 2008, Miyuki Hatoyama, who a year later became Japan’s first lady, described traveling to Venus to witness an alien world in her book entitled “Very Strange Things I’ve Encountered.” – WTF Fun Facts
British artist Andy Goldsworthy arranges leaves, sticks, and stones, creating unbelievably magical land artworks. He creates transitory works of art that look almost as if they were formed naturally. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://otherworldproject.net/Man-Arranges-Leaves-Sticks-And-Stones-To-Create-Magical-Land-Artworks
John Wayne was given his own island, which was named after him, off the coast of Panama to thank him for his support in returning control of the Panama canal to Panama. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://insidepanamarealestate.com/ipreenfold/really-john-wayne-island/
Dr. William Stewart Halstead, the father of modern surgery, pioneered the use of anesthetics by experimentally injecting himself himself with cocaine. He eventually became addicted to cocaine and then morphine but somehow continued to modernize medical training. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.idigitalhealth.com/news/podcast-how-the-father-of-modern-surgery-became-a-healthcare-antihero
In 1963, Winston Churchill was the first foreign national to receive honorary United States citizenship. He also received a passport-like document along with it which was not valid for travel. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.history.com/news/americas-honorary-citizens
Woody Guthrie wrote “This Land is Your Land” as a retort, after he got tired of hearing Kate Smith’s “God Bless America” over and over again. He sarcastically named the song “God Blessed America For Me” before later changing the title. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2000/07/03/1076186/this-land-is-your-land
Don Rickles, the voice of Mr. Potato Head, passed away before he was able to record any dialogue for Toy Story 4. Rather than replace him, Disney reviewed 25 years of material from the first three films, video games, and other media and were able to assemble enough dialogue to cover the entire film. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://ew.com/movies/2019/03/28/toy-story-4-potato-head/