The hot sauce Valentina was named after the bold 17-year-old Valentina Ramirez Avitia who posed as a man to join the Mexican Revolution. She made it all the way to lieutenant and was expelled when they accidentally discovered her braids. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The Untold Truth Of Valentina Hot Sauce (mashed.com)
An octopus has 3 hearts. One pumps blood through its organs; the 2 others pump blood through its gills. When an octopus is swimming, the organ that delivers blood to the organs stops beating. This exhausts the octopus, which is likely the reason they prefer to crawl than swim. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Octopus Facts | Live Science
A tabby is any domestic cat with a distinctive ‘M’ shaped marking on its forehead. “Tabby” is not a breed of cat but a coat type seen in almost all genetic lines of domestic cats. Tabby originally referred to “striped silk taffeta” from the French word tabis. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabby_cat
A raccoon in Germany broke into a zoo exhibit which housed 7 other raccoons. Since the raccoon is considered an invasive species in the EU, the zoo could not legally remove the vagrant raccoon and had to let him stay in the zoo. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Wild Raccoon Moves Into Zoo, And Zookeepers Have To Let Him Stay | HuffPost Impact
McDonald’s opened a Big Mac Museum Restaurant in western Pennsylvania on August 22, 2007, to celebrate the sandwich’s 40th anniversary. The museum houses the world’s largest Big Mac statue, at 14 feet tall and 12 feet wide. – WTF Fun Facts
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Nicholas Cage proposed to Patricia Arquette on the day they met. She jokingly requested a list of impossible things to ‘win her’, such as J.D. Salinger’s autograph. She got spooked when he started acquiring many of the items and avoided him. They met again years later and went on to marry. – WTF Fun Facts
As you gain weight, your tongue does as well. The extra fat on your tongue can cause problems, such as sleep apnea. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Slimming Down ‘Tongue Fat’ Might Help Ease Sleep Apnea – WebMD
In 2012, a Britain named Wesley Carrington bought a cheap metal detector and within 20 minutes found a “solidi” gold coin, which dated back more than 1600 years. He continued to dig and found 54 more of the 22 carat gold coins. The coins were estimated to be worth £100,000. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Beginner Detectorist Finds Gold Roman Coins Worth £100,000 – TheDetectorist
In 2003, the London Underground piloted playing classical music in tube stations to deter anti-social behavior which resulted in train robberies falling by 33%, verbal assaults on staff dropping 25%, and vandalism decreasing by 37% over an18 month period. – WTF Fun Facts