The first woman appearing on a US postage stamp was Queen Isabella of Spain, honoring her patronage of Christopher Columbus’s voyage to the Americas. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_on_US_stamps
The Mexican Constitution of 1917 was the first document in history that said every person has the right to an education. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constitution_of_Mexico#Article_1
A popular additive to many perfumes, Ambergris, comes from the intestines of sperm whales. When it’s fresh, not surprisingly, it smells like crap, but then later begins to smell sweet and ‘earthy’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/whale-poop-perfume-ambergris-why-its-expensive-2019-1
When morphine was first isolated from opium in 1805, one of its early uses was as a “non-addictive” drug to treat people with an addiction to the relatively less addictive opium. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://methoide.fcm.arizona.edu/infocenter/index.cfm?stid=174
A man once sued a dry cleaner store for $67 million over a late return of a pair of $1000 pants. He reduced it to $45 million in court. The case was thrown out multiple times and the man, a judge himself, lost his job for a lack of “judicial temperament.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_v._Chung
75% of the earth’s population, an estimated 4 billion people, who have no address for mailing purposes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://qz.com/705273/mongolia-is-changing-all-its-addresses-to-three-word-phrases/
The highest crime rate per capita of any city in the world is at Vatican City where an average of 600 crimes (primarily petty theft) are committed per year, despite only having 800 residents. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Vatican_City
Ronald Reagan enjoyed the White House’s squirrel population so much that on his last day in office he left a sign for them warning them to beware of George H.W. Bush’s dog. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/politics/remarks-by-former-president-george-hw-bush.html
In 1936, Cleveland lost the largest book in the world. The Golden Book of Cleveland was 7 feet by 5 feet and 3 feet thick, with 6,000 pages – about the size of a queen-size bed. It weighed ~2 1/2 tons. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/the-read/articles/the-golden-book-of-cleveland