In 2019, luxury fashion label Louis Vuitton created a Jenga-style game made out of plexiglass. The set, which is simply named the “monogram tower” on their website, retailed for $2400. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Jenga! Louis Vuitton’s new game will cost you $2,400 (nypost.com)
President Jimmy Carter’s son James Earl “Chip” Carter III smoked weed with Willie Nelson on the roof of the White House during his father’s presidency. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Willie Nelson’s Weed Empire | GQ
In 2012, Patrick “Deep Dish” Bertoletti set a new world record by peeling and eating 8 bananas in 60 seconds. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Most bananas peeled and eaten in one minute | Guinness World Records
Trees have a theoretical maximum height of between 400 and 426 ft. and cannot grow taller due to the opposing force of gravity. They are unable to get water higher up the tree and the leaves at the top are effectively under drought conditions. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2013, McDonald’s challenged celebrity chefs to deploy McDonald’s ingredients to create a “McGourmet” meal. Their creations ranged from kung pao Chicken McNuggets to slow-cooked beef with Mac Fry gnocchi. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Creative Chefs Whip Up ‘Gourmet’ Dishes Using McDonald’s Ingredients – FAB News
In old Nokia phones, the standard notification tone for an SMS (text message) was simply ‘M’ (for message) in Morse code. The “Special” tone when receiving an SMS was Morse code for “SMS”. – WTF Fun Facts
Abibliophobia is the fear of running out of material to read. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Definition of abibliophobia, BuzzWord from Macmillan Dictionary
Despite dying in 1994, Kim Il-sung remains president of North Korea. The constitution was revised in 1998, declaring him ‘Eternal President of the Republic’. As a result, North Korea became the only necrocracy in the world – a government operating under the rules of a deceased former leader. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Kim Il-Sung | Biography, Facts, Leadership of North Korea, Significance, & Death | Britannica
There is a museum of potatoe fries in Bruges, Belgium. The Frietmuseum is devoted to the history of potatoes and the production of Belgian fries. It traces the history of potatoes, beginning in Peru ~8000BC. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Frietmuseum – Wikipedia