Sesselpupser is German for those who sit around all day doing nothing or those who work from the comfort of an office chair doing menial work. It literally translates to “chair farter”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blogs.transparent.com/german/3-lazy-german-words/
WWII submarine Captain John P. Cromwell went down with his crippled submarine Sculpin after surfacing and letting crewmembers abandon ship. Cpt Cromwell had knowledge of top secret Allied war plans that the Japanese may have extracted from him if captured. – WTF Fun Facts
In January 897, Pope Formosus’s corpse was put on trial and found guilty in what became known as the Cadaver Synod. He had three fingers removed, was reburied, dug up once again, and then weighed down and tossed into the River Tiber. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2017, Kyrie Irving made the comment that he isn’t entirely sure whether the Earth is flat or round. A year later he told the NY Times in another interview that he still wasn’t entirely sure the shape of the Earth. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nba.com/article/2018/10/01/kyrie-irving-regrets-flat-earth-comments
In 2015 a teen was prosecuted as an adult for having naked images – of himself – on his cell phone. The court claimed he was simultaneously the adult perpetrator who is considered a predator and the minor victim who needed protecting by the law. He struck a plea deal to avoid jail. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/sep/20/teen-prosecuted-naked-images-himself-phone-selfies
Ford Motor Company started using bioplastics back in the 1930’s. Ford’s 1941 biological car was made of soybean, wheat, hemp, flax and ramie fibers in a soy-based phenolic resin. It weighed 1,000 pounds less than a steel car. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://exclusive.multibriefs.com/content/back-to-the-future-with-ford-bioplastics/manufacturing
In a recent study, researchers from California State University showed that the self control needed to suppress the urge to urinate can make you more convincing at telling lies. This effect is known as inhibitory spillover effect. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2019, Netflix leased the Paris Theatre, a single-screen theatre in Manhattan, to show their original movies. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2019/11/25/netflix-to-reopen-famed-paris-theatre-in-manhattan/
In 1989, NASA studied house plants as a means of providing clean and pure air for their space station. They found Peace Lilies and Florist’s Chrysanthemums to be the best all-around at filtering the air. – WTF Fun Facts