In January 2011, two Canadians bet over $500,000 on a best-of-three game of rock, paper, scissors. The loser took out a mortgage on his home to pay the debt, but the courts ruled that the wager contract was invalid as the amount was excessive and cancelled the mortgage. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/500-k-bet-on-rock-paper-scissors-1.5543533
“Autothysis” (or suicidal altruism) is the process where an animal destroys itself via an internal rupturing or explosion of an organ which ruptures the skin. Some species of termites and ants use this process to defend their colonies.– WTF Fun Facts
In France, Easter Bells (les cloches de Pâques) deliver Easter eggs and not a bunny. On Maundy Thursday, church bells across France are silenced and remain silent until Easter Sunday. According to legend, the bells would fly to Rome to be blessed by the Pope and scatter eggs on the way back. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.completefrance.com/food-and-drink/french-easter-traditions-1-4446564
Yosemite Sam is actually known as Sam le Pirate in France. There he has a pirate persona as the default instead of the original cowboy. Additionally, in the non-Western cartoons he has other nicknames including Square-deal Sam, Riff Raff Sam, Seagoin’ Sam, and more. – WTF Fun Facts
In 1995, Chris “Fenderman” Black married his Fender Stratocaster guitar that he purchased 35 years prior. He did so after his actual wife joked that he spent so much time with it that he should marry it. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.deseret.com/1995/6/1/19215651/wife-fumes-as-briton-weds-object-of-desire
Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote 23 sequels to Tarzan of the Apes. The ape-man discovers he is John Clayton, Lord of Greystoke, fights alongside Germans in WWI, finds a colony of Atlantis and the City of Gold, befriends a tribe of tiny humans, and other bizarre adventures. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Tarzan (book series) – Wikipedia
School bus yellow was specifically formulated for use on school buses in North America in 1939. Originally named :National School Bus Chrome,” the color is now officially known in Canada and the U.S. as “National School Bus Glossy Yellow.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: School bus yellow – Wikipedia
In 1816, the generally accepted first recorded ship to ever sink in the Great Lakes was a wooden ship employed in the fur trade named “Invincible”. – WTF Fun Facts
Despite how TV shows and movies depict New York, it only has a four or five stereotypical alleys and you can’t film at the majority of them. As a result almost every NY alley scene is shot at the same location: Cortlandt Alley. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: New York Through the Eyes of a Film Location Scout – Bloomberg