By the 1980’s, Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt, one of the last German princesses, was so broke she started a business adopting adult men and giving them the royal ‘Prince’ title in exchange for money. She made about 35 regular guys ‘princes’ and in the process made millions. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Marie-Auguste_of_Anhalt
The North Island brown kiwi is a flightless, nocturnal bird that lays a single egg which averages 15% of its body size (about 1 lb). It is the only bird known to consistently have both a left and right ovary as most birds have only a single ovary. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://nationalzoo.si.edu/animals/north-island-brown-kiwi
The highest point in Canada was only officially determined in 1992. An expedition finally reached the summit of Mount Logan and GPS put its elevation at 19,551 ft. Temperatures have been unofficially recorded at below -100F on the summit. – WTF Fun Facts
Anatoli Brouchkov, a Russian geocryologist, injected himself with a 3.5 million year old strain of bacteria known as Bacillus F, which he found in a permafrost sample, just to see what would happen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/yp3gg7/meet-the-scientist-who-injected-himself-with-35-million-year-old-bacteria
Alaska is both the Westernmost and Easternmost point of the United States. Alaska has an uninhabited Aleutian Island called Semisopochnoi which sits just 10 miles east of the 180th meridian. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cntraveler.com/stories/2012-07-30/semisopochnoi-island-alaska-maphead-ken-jennings
The American Zoo Association has a “matchmaking site” known as the Population Management Center. It was started in June 2000 to help conserve species by facilitating matchmaking between zoos. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://newsfeed.time.com/2012/07/13/match-com-for-animals/
If you took out all of the empty space from between and within the atoms making up each human being, the entire human race would fit into the volume of a sugar cube. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.scienceabc.com/pure-sciences/can-the-entire-human-race-fit-inside-a-sugar-cube.html
The World’s first and ancient university was established in Takshashila in 700 BC in India (modern day Pakistan). More than 10500 students from all over the world studied more than 60 subjects.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://veda.wikidot.com/tip:world-first-university-takshila
Baby rats are called kittens or pups. A group of rats is called a mischief. – WTF Fun Facts