Fun facts about people in history and other weird celebrity facts!
In 2015, Snoop Dogg showed up 2 hours late for a concert in Haarlem, Netherlands and then proceeded to stream football on his laptop during the performance. He shared it all on his instagram. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nhnieuws.nl/nieuws/158084/snoop-fans-woedend-komt-hij-twee-uur-te-laat-kijkt-hij-ondertussen-football
Coco Chanel, the founder of fashion and perfume empire Chanel, was a nazi spy during WWII with the code name of ‘Westminster’ due to her connections with British high society. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.biography.com/news/coco-chanel-nazi-agent
Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash once walked in on his mother naked in bed with David Bowie. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/slash-embarrassed-by-story-about-mom-naked-with-david-bowie-204278/
Pavarotti holds the record for curtain calls doing 165 after a performance of the Donizetti opera “L’elisir d’amore“ at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in 1988. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://oddpavarottiblog.wordpress.com/2012/08/19/pavarotti-in-berlin-5/
Pop star Madonna at one point worked at Dunkin’ Donuts but was fired for squirting the customers with jam. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.shape.com/celebrities/celebrity-photos/15-celebs-surprising-jobs-they-were-famous
Aretha Franklin always insisted on being paid upfront and in cash before performances. She’d keep the cash with her security team or occasionally in her purse which she brought on stage. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/04/04/aretha-franklins-american-soul
A 102 year old german woman is the oldest to receive a PhD. She was banned from attending her final oral exam in 1938 by the Nazi influenced university because she was Jewish. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/mississippi-officially-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment/
Prince Charles had engineers modify his Aston Martin Volante to run on biofuel made from white wine. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2018/11/08/charles-forced-aston-martin-make-car-run-wine-royal-train-cooking/
A 2009 study found that the closer a woman lives to the equator, the more likely she is to give birth to a female.
Source: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0069
During his second inauguration in 1905, Theodore Roosevelt wore a ring which contained a lock of Abraham Lincoln’s hair, it was given to him by Sec. of State John Hay, the former personal secretary to Lincoln.
Source: https://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/Item/The%20Heir%20of%20Abraham%20Lincoln
Jerry Springer was born in Highgate tube station in London while it was being used as a bomb shelter during World War 2.
In order to perfect his character Hercule Poirot’s walk, actor David Suchet clenched a coin between his buttcheeks which helped slow and shorten his stride.
John F. Kennedy’s brain was removed during his autopsy and subsequently stored in the National Archives, but it has been missing since 1966.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/shortcuts/2013/oct/21/presidents-brain-missing-mislaid-body-parts
The world record for the longest time between the birth of two twins is 87 days. The first of the Elliott twins was born 4 months early while her sister remained in the womb for another ~3 months.
In 1922, Ernest Hemingway’s wife Elizabeth lost all but two of his early manuscripts while traveling by train from Paris to Switzerland to meet Hemingway. They’ve never been found.
– WTF Fun Fact
Source: https://lostmanuscripts.com/2010/07/31/hemingways-lost-suitcase/
Pregnant women are 42% more likely to be in a car crash during their second trimester of pregnancy compared to the previous 3 years before the pregnancy. Additionally, stats show 1 in 50 pregnant women will be in a car crash at some point during their pregnancy.
When the Grammy-nominated band Arctic Monkeys was formed, none of its members could play a musical instrument. – WTF Fun Fact
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matt_Helders#Role_as_drummer
Maria Von Trapp, who wrote the book which inspired both the Broadway musical and the 1965 movie The Sound Of Music, had a cameo role in the movie but was not invited to the movie’s premiere as the producer said “ there were no seats left.”