A professional eater downed 50 slices of pumpkin pie in 10 minutes to win a New York state contest and set a new record for the event. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/10/02/Woman-sets-pumpkin-pie-eating-record-at-50-slices-in-10-minutes/1671570027922/?sl=5
A recent study found children are 39% more likely to buy a particular brand of automobile if their parents bought that brand. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-10/msu-pdk100214.php
There’s a 2001 cult film called Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. The plot has a modern-day Jesus struggling to protect the lesbians of Ottowa, Ontario from vampire with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Vampire_Hunter
The four construction bay doors on NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building (or VAB) are the world’s largest doors. At 456 feet high, they are taller than the Statue of Liberty. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.kidsdiscover.com/quick-reads/inside-nasas-vehicle-assembly-building/
Americans are over 20 times more likely to be killed by a cow than by a shark, bear, or alligator. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/shark-versus-cow-deadlier/story?id=24931705
The world’s longest water slide was unveiled in Malaysia and is a 1 kilometer-long chute that starts on a hilltop. It is three times longer than the previous record-holding slide in Germany. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/worlds-longest-waterslide-malaysia-escape/index.html
A recent study on plastic pollution found the average person consumes 50,000 particles of microplastic a year and breathes in roughly the same amount. – WTF Fun Facts
One of the largest and oldest organisms on Earth, the ‘Trembling Giant’, is slowly dying to mule deer. The 106-acre pando quaking aspen colony in Utah, which is nearly 80,000 years old, is being thinned by the deer eating its new stems. The mule deer are thriving as they currently have no natural predators. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/63852-failing-aspen-clone-utah.html
In 2010, the Colombian army produced a song called ‘Better Days’ with Morse code embedded in the chorus and aired it in rebel-controlled territory to lift the morale of hostages. The message said “19 people rescued. You are next. Don’t lose hope.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theverge.com/2015/1/7/7483235/the-code-colombian-army-morsecode-hostages