Fun facts about people in history and other weird celebrity facts!
Alex Trebek didn’t take a a single sick day for the first 34 years of Jeopardy! He hosted over 6800 episodes and holds the world record for most game show episodes hosted by the same presenter. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2014/6/video-jeopardy!-star-alex-trebek-sets-record-for-most-game-show-episodes-hosted-58061/
The record for the most kids born to a single mother is 69. Russian Valentina Vassilyeva labored 27 times and gave birth to 16 pairs of twins, 7 sets of triplets, and 4 sets of quadruplets. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/most-prolific-mother-ever?fb_comment_id=84106
Nazca Lines are located in Peru and were created by the ancient Nazca culture in South America. The 2,000 year-old Lines depict various plants, animals, and shapes and must be viewed from an above to be fully appreciated. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.history.com/topics/south-america/nazca-lines
Male model Stefan-Pierre Tomlin aka “Mr. Tinder” received a record-breaking 14,600 matches in two years. After five years of swiping and matching nearly 20 women a day on the app, he finally found a girlfriend offline via a blind date. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://nypost.com/2019/08/20/mr-tinder-finds-love-offline-after-14600-failed-matches/
Pope John Paul II nominated Saint Isidore of Seville, a Bishop and Scholar, as the patron saint of the internet because he tried to record everything that was known in his 20 book opus Etymologies/Origins. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/facebook/8334250/Profile-Saint-Isidore-the-Patron-Saint-of-the-Internet.html
A couple from Paraguay moved in together in 1933. After 80 years, 8 children and 50 grandchildren, the 103-year-old man married his 99-year-old bride. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://tnlounge.com/1717/103-year-old-groom-marries-his-99-year-old-bride-after-80-ye
Voice actress Dionne Quan, who voiced Trixie Trang in Fairly Odd Parents and Kimi in Rugrats, is legally blind and all her acting scripts are written in braille.
Magician Harry Houdini took a year off from his performance career during WWI to promote the war effort including teaching soldiers how to get out of handcuffs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://houdini.org/interest.html
Kobe Bryant has the most missed shots in NBA history (14,481) but still averaged 25.4 points per game over his 19 years in the NBA, shooting 45.3% from the floor and making 33% of his career three-pointers. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.sportscasting.com/nba/10-players-who-have-missed-the-most-shots-in-nba-history-2/
Aitzaz Hassan, a 15-years-old, Pakistani schoolboy, who in 2014, when he saw a suicide bomber at the gates to his school, decided to confront the man, while his friends ran inside, detonating the bomb, and saving upwards of 2000 children. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-25663992
Saint George is the patron saint of England and a few other places, but he is also the patron saint of skin disease sufferers including lepers and leprosy as well as syphilitic people and syphilis. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patronages_of_Saint_George
According to the Pentagon, 71% of Americans between the ages of 17 and 24 are ineligible to join the military. They are too overweight, too poorly educated, or have a criminal record. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.militarytimes.com/opinion/commentary/2018/07/18/commentary-heres-why-fighting-youth-obesity-is-a-matter-of-national-security/
For 4 years, Hugh Grant was his own talent agent under the made up name of James Howe Ealy. He would speak with a fake Scottish accent when on the phone. He claims to have saved himself a fortune while doing so. – WTF Fun Facts
When Prince died in 2016, he did not leave a will for his estate worth hundreds of millions of dollars. Within three weeks of his death, nearly 700 people claimed to be his half-sibling in hopes of cashing in on his death. As of 2019, his estate has still not been settled. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vibe.com/2016/05/700-people-related-to-prince
Soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo refuses to get any tattoos on his body just so he can continue on donating blood. – WTF Fun Facts
Uber’s first CEO, Ryan Graves, was an unpaid intern at Foursquare, who got hired after he answered a job listing on Twitter. He’s now worth billions. – WTF Fun Facts
A New York City man was exonerated and released, after being held in jail for transporting child pornography, when porn star Lupe Fuentes flew from Spain to appear at his trial with her ID and passport proving her age. – WTF Fun Facts
Californian-based artist Hoang Tran makes intricate crayon carvings of famous characters from pop culture. Each hand-carved sculpture takes several hours to complete. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.lostateminor.com/2014/02/27/interview-crayon-sculptor-hoang-tran/