Thecacera pacifica is a species of sea slug, a nudibranch, a marine gastropod mollusk. It is sometimes nicknamed Pikachu nudibranch due to its resemblance to the Pokémon character. – WTF Fun Facts
Gaming
WTF Fun Fact – The Landlord’s Game
Monopoly was originally called “The Landlord’s Game” and was patented in 1904 by Elizabeth Maggie. Instead of the “Pass Go, Collect $200” square, she wrote “Labor upon mother Earth produces wages.”–WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Hungry Hungry Hippos World Championship
Since 2015, there has been a Hungry Hungry Hippos World Championship held every year at Gen Con in Indiana. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Celebrity Gaming Apps
Glu Mobile, trying to re-create the success of gaming app “Kim Kardashian: Hollywood” has created apps for Kendall and Kylie Jenner, Katy Perry, Britney Spears, Gordan Ramsay, Jason Statham, and Nicki Minaj. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Monopoly Banned
When Fidel Castro seized power in Cuba, he banned the board game Monopoly and ordered every set to be destroyed. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1992-10-04-9203300699-story.html
WTF Fun Fact – The Nintendo Sony Game Player
The Sony PlayStation, originally known as the Game Player, was never meant to be a Nintendo competitor. It was designed in partnership with Nintendo to exclusively play Nintendo games on compact discs. Nintendo backed out of the deal at the last minute and Sony went ahead and launched the console they had built. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Pokemon Franchise
Pokémon, despite being relatively new, is the highest grossing media franchise of all time with an estimated $95 billion in revenue, beating out other franchises such as Star Wars, Marvel and Mickey Mouse. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_highest-grossing_media_franchises
WTF Fun Fact – Jimi Hendrix Unbeatable At Risk
According to fellow musician Graham Nash, Jimi Hendrix was unbeatable at the game of Risk which he liked to play while on LSD.–WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Do You Trust Your Wife?
ABC hosted a gameshow in the 1950’s called Do You Trust Your Wife? Married couples were asked a series of questions but only the husbands were told the category of the upcoming question and would then have to decide whether to answer the question themselves or “trust” their wives to answer. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Gyoza The Pug
Gyoza the pug was hired by 343 Industries to help make the alien noises in their next game Halo: Infinite. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Inspiration For The Sims
Will Wright got the inspiration for the original The Sims game while assessing his losses and material needs after his home burned down in the Oakland-Berkeley Firestorm. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.berkeleyside.com/2011/10/17/will-wright-inspired-to-make-the-sims-after-iosing-a-home
WTF Fun Fact – Card Counting Legality
Despite it being common practice for casinos to ban card counters, a 1979 New Jersey Supreme Court decision banned all Atlantic City casinos from doing so, making them the only state in America where they can’t throw out skilled blackjack players. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Card_counting#Legal_status
WTF Fun Fact – Games For Science
After 13 years of trying to find the structure of a protein, scientists created an online competitive game called Foldit that asked gamers to try and solve it. The structure was then found in 3 weeks. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com//technology/2014/jan/25/online-gamers-solving-sciences-biggest-problems
WTF Fun Fact – No Bad Publicity
When DMA Design/Rockstar Games first released Grand Theft Auto, they actually paid reviewers to negatively review the game in order to keep it controversial and thus popular. They planted articles in right wing news papers to ensure moral outrage and drive the game to success. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://whatculture.com/gaming/gta-v-9-facts-that-will-blow-your-mind?page=4
WTF Fun Fact – William Higinbotham
Physicist William Higinbotham worked on both the first nuclear bomb and what some consider to be the first video game ever, ‘Tennis for Two.’ – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two
WTF Fun Fact – Chess Advisor
In medieval games of chess, pawns that had been promoted to a queen would be given the title of “advisor,” so as to not imply that the king had more than one queen or was unfaithful. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_(chess)
WTF Fun Fact – Yu-Gi-Oh Hygiene
Hygiene standards were so low that the official 2019 Yu-Gi-Oh tournament hosted by Konami instituted a hygiene clause to the rule book. This allows judges to penalize players with dirty clothing or terrible odor by giving them a loss. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/05/stnky_gamers_banned/
WTF Fun Fact – Music While You Work
People who work in silence are slower and less proficient than those who listen to music while working. Video game music itself is designed to keep you motivated and finishing tasks without stealing your focus. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://desktime.com/blog/why-you-should-listen-to-video-game-soundtracks-at-work