The USPS has ~1,700 employees in Utah whose sole job is to read illegible addresses which the machine can’t read. They process 5 million pieces of mail daily with some employees averaging 1,600 addresses an hour. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Turkey Dinner
Britain’s oldest turkey is ironically named ‘Dinner’. He is over 16 years old and lives as a pet on Stonebridge Farm in Nottingham. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – CIA Cat Spies
The CIA spent $20 million in an attempt to use cats to spy on the Kremlin and Soviet embassies. The mission was called Acoustic Kitty and involved implanting a microphone in a cat’s ears and a radio transmitter near its skull. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Fake Ronald
An actor named Joe Maggard lied to the media about portraying Ronald McDonald for 12 years. A 2014 documentary titled Ronald perpetuates his lie as he tells about his life after supposedly being Ronald McDonald. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Pieza Fly Names
There’s a genus of fly called Pieza which has cleverly named species like Pieza pie, Pieza rhea, Pieza kake,and finally the Pieza deresistans. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – How Old Is Jack
Researchers believe the tale of Jack And The Beanstalk is over 5,000 years old and was originally known as The Boy Who Stole Ogre’s Treasure. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tale-as-old-as-time-some-fairy-tales-may-be-6000-years-old/
WTF Fun Fact – First E-Commerce Transaction
The first online e-commerce transaction ever was Stanford students buying marijuana from MIT students. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://curiosity.com/topics/the-first-online-transaction-was-a-drug-deal-curiosity/
WTF Fun Fact – Koro Epidemic
There is a well documented Koro (or genital retraction syndrome) epidemic that occurred in Singapore in late 1967.Men believed they were going to die from their penis shrinking after eating bad pork. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://theindependent.sg/the-day-the-shrinking-penis-epidemic-struck-singapore/
WTF Fun Fact – XXX Meaning
The ‘XXX’ which is often used to indicate “poison” originated from moonshiners. The X’s indicated their alcohol had been run through the still 3 times and was now pure and strong. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://vinepair.com/articles/what-moonshine-xxx-label-mean/