Arnold Schwarzenegger paid Austria $20,000 to ship him a 1951 M-47 Patton tank, the exact same tank he drove when he was a soldier. It is fully operable (minus the gun) and he uses it to support his fundraising efforts. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/07/26/arnold-schwarzenegger-gives-kids-rides-in-his-old-war-tank.html
The Parthian shot, an ancient military tactic where archers on horses would feign retreat and then turn their bodies while at full gallop to shoot at the pursuing enemy. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthian_shot
Galeanthropy is a mental condition of thinking that one has become a cat, which is usually manifested in the adoption of feline mannerisms and habits. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/galeanthropy
There is a version of the Mexican song La Cucaracha sang by Poncho Villa’s troops in battle during the Mexican Revolution that is about a cockroach that can’t walk because it doesn’t have marijuana to smoke. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.leafly.com/news/lifestyle/la-cucaracha-references-marijuana
Ducks can keep their eyes open underwater due to a transparent third, sideways eyelid called a nictating membrane or haw. All birds have it and even humans have a vestigial remnant called the plica semilunaris. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nictitating_membrane
In 2015, Tara, the tabby cat, won the SPCA Los Angeles’s annual national Hero Dog Award for tackling a dog attacking a child. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/06/19/415878758/cat-wins-hero-dog-award
Physicist William Higinbotham worked on both the first nuclear bomb and what some consider to be the first video game ever, ‘Tennis for Two.’ – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tennis_for_Two
“The Powerpuff Girls” was originally called “Whoopass Stew!” Rather than adding Chemical X to his formula, Professor Utonium accidentally adds a can of whoop ass and creates The Whoopass Girls. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qsx0uF80n8U
The band Chumbawamba holds the world record for the longest album title at 156 words and 857 characters long for 2008 album “The Boy Bands Have Won…” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/74213-longest-title-of-a-music-album/