Maria Paraskeva of Cyprus fulfilled her childhood dream by wearing a lace veil that stretched 22,843 feet and 2.11 inches, or roughly 63.5 football fields which is a new Guinness world record. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Dr. Marijuana Pepsi
A woman named Marijuana Pepsi, who refused to change her name, earned her Ph.D at age 46 after writing her thesis on “Black names in white classrooms: Teacher behaviors and student perceptions.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blavity.com/woman-named-marijuana-pepsi-who-refused-to-change-her-name-earns-her-phd-after-completing-dissertation-on-black-names?category1=news
WTF Fun Fact – The Sea Hare’s Purple Ink
The California sea hare, Aplysia californica, has a combination of defense mechanisms including the release of purple ink and opaline from glands. The ink acts as a smoke screen while the opaline confuses the predator and causes them to try to eat the ink cloud. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_sea_hare
WTF Fun Fact – Serial Killers At Large
Archivist and researcher Thomas Hargrove, who works with the non-profit Murder Accountability Project (MAP), estimates that some 2,000 serial killers are at large in the United States. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newsweek.com/serial-killers-united-states-how-many-718232
WTF Fun Fact – Three Word Postal Codes
A startup company and the Mongolian government are teaming together to create a new postal code system. They assign each 3 meter square piece of land three word postal code. There are enough words in the English dictionary to account for the 57 trillion 3-meter squares on Earth. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.npr.org/2016/06/19/482514949/welcome-to-mongolias-new-postal-system-an-atlas-of-random-words#Where
WTF Fun Fact – Most Common Letter
‘E’ is the most common letter and appears in 11% of all English words. It is nearly 57 times more likely to appear in a word than the letter ‘Q’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www3.nd.edu/~busiforc/handouts/cryptography/letterfrequencies.html
WTF Fun Fact – Setenil de Las Bodegas
Setenil de Las Bodegas is a place in Spain where 3,000 residents live, work, and play in a gorge beneath a huge,rocky outcropping – their homes are built into the rock underneath. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setenil_de_las_Bodegas
WTF Fun Fact – Paint Drying The Movie
In 2016, a British man crowdfunded a ten hour film of paint drying in order to force the British Board of Film Classification to watch it. It was a protest against the BBFC requiring independent filmmakers pay £1000 per submission for their certificate. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/bbfc-declares-paint-drying-film-a-u-after-sitting-through-all-607-minutes-a6834671.html
WTF Fun Fact – Twin Birth Anomoly
Africa has roughly 18 sets of twins per 1000 births. It is the world’s highest rate of twin-births among regions in the developing world. Igbo Ora Town in Nigeria averaged nearly 50 sets per 1000 births when studied in the 1970’s. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://theculturetrip.com/africa/nigeria/articles/this-city-in-nigeria-has-the-highest-rate-of-twins-in-the-world/