Cassius M. Clay was a politician and abolitionist. He was once shot during a debate, but survived and chased down his assassin, stabbing him & throwing him off an embankment. He later fought off 6 men armed with guns using only his bowie knife. He was Lincoln’s friend and briefly a candidate to be his VP. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassius_Marcellus_Clay_(politician)
A 55-year-old British woman bought a ring from a flea market 33 years ago thinking it was an artificial stone, but she recently discovered it’s a genuine 26-carat diamond ring worth ~$960,000. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.tert.am/en/news/2019/02/08/diamond/2916349
In Bruges, Belgium there is a 2 mile long beer pipeline that flows from De Halve Maan brewery in the city’s historic center with a bottling plant in the suburbs. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/19/news/beer-pipeline-bruges-belgium/index.html
In 2012, a woman in France accidentally received a phone bill of €11,721,000,000,000,000. This was 5000x the GDP of France at the time. After several calls to the phone company, she was finally given her real bill of €117.21. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/oct/11/french-phone-bill
In Elf, none of the shots with Buddy at the North Pole involved CGI or special effects. It was all done with a technique called forced perspective. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://screenrant.com/elf-behind-scenes-making-of-hidden-trivia/
The Tarahumara use their corn beer Tesgüino in many of their ceremonies, including those to protect young children from illness and also when treating the sick. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1525/aa.1963.65.3.02a00080
Viggo Mortensen purchased the horse he rode in the Lord of The Rings movie. The horse had a hard time adjusting to the lights and sounds on set and it took a while for them to get in sync but they developed a strong bond in the end. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.ign.com/articles/2004/03/04/ign-inteviews-viggo-mortensen
15 year-old art student Demi Barnes designed a wedding dress out of 1500 divorce papers to bring awareness to the issue of people rushing into marriages and ending up divorced.–WTF Fun Facts
In 1969, a short animated film was made in protest of the Vietnam War called “Mickey Mouse in Vietnam.” It consists of Mickey enlisting, going to Vietnam on a cruise ship, and then promptly being shot and dying. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse_in_Vietnam