A Louisiana school principal resigned by text after being arrested standing in the middle of a street for public intoxication. He was found outside a strip club where he refused to pay his bill, all while he was on a school trip to Washington D.C. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.klfy.com/news/top-stories-news/louisiana-principal-resigns-after-being-arrested-at-strip-club-while-on-school-field-trip/
The world’s largest model train set in Germany beat its own Guinness World Record by adding a large new section based on Monaco. It previously measured 39,370 feet of track and has now expanded to 51,558 feet, 4.78 inches of track. – WTF Fun Facts
According to a study with data sourced from phone apps, women on average tend to sleep a half hour longer than men, with women ages 25 and under getting the most sleep out of all. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2087231-women-sleep-half-an-hour-longer-than-men-phone-app-data-shows/
An endangered parrot in New Zealand was only mating with people’s heads, so they made as ‘ejaculation helmet’ for people to wear which would collect the bird’s rare semen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/seduced-rare-parrot-180962855/
The hairy frogfish (Antennarius striatus) uses a vacuum in its mouth to suck in prey that is as large as it is in just 1/6000th of a second. Despite having only 5mm palatal teeth, it has the fastest ‘bite’ in the animal kingdom. – WTF Fun Facts
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The Toddlers’ Truce was a piece of British TV scheduling policy in the 1940’s that required transmissions to stop between 6pm and 7pm. Children’s programming ended at 6, which allowed young children to be put to bed before the evening programming at 7. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toddlers%27_Truce
German WW2 prisoners of war were treated so well in Canadian prisons that many didn’t want to leave the country when released. Thousands of PoW’s stayed in Canada or came back years later. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://legionmagazine.com/en/2012/03/the-happiest-prisoners/
In 1912, Jim Thorpe, an American Indian, won two Olympic gold medals with a mismatched pair of shoes taken from the garbage. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Thorpe
The Washington Monument is capped with a 9″, 100 ounce aluminum pyramid. Aluminum was a precious metal in 1884 and the pyramid was displayed at Tiffany’s jewelry store in New York before it was placed at the top. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_monument_3.html