Cats have a dominant paw very similar to how humans have a dominant hand. These preferences also differ by sex – same as in humans. Males tend to prefer their left paws, whereas females were more likely to be righties. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2018/01/animals-pets-cats-right-handed/
Glossy magazines are radioactive. They are made with a white clay called kaolin which contains elevated levels of uranium and thorium. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/consumer%20products/magazines.htm
A Ugandan man saw his father lose their land in a legal fight at age 6. He spent 18 years in school and became a lawyer and won back the land 23 years later. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47801008
John Willis is one of only a few white members in Ping On, Boston’s Chinese mafia. He was introduced to the group by a young Asian man he defended. John later learned Chinese, became the boss’s chief bodyguard, and received the nickname “White Devil”. He is currently in a federal prison for drug trafficking. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/exq8dm/how-did-a-white-guy-from-boston-become-a-mob-boss-in-the-chinese-mafia-111
Before Edgar Allen Poe sold his poem The Raven for $9, or roughly $300 in today’s dollars, to The American Review, the owner of Graham’s Magazine gifted him $15 after turning Poe down because he thought the poem was a cry for help. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/10/28/priority-edgar-allan-poes-poem-raven-rejected-one-magazine-eventually-sold-9/
Marie Curie, the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and first person to win two, wasn’t legally allowed to attend college as a woman. Instead, she attended the secret Polish Flying University. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Curie
In 2012, at a pop up shop in London’s St. Bart’s Pathology Museum, STD decorated cupcakes were showcased in an effort to promote safe sex. The cupcakes feature scabs, boils, green-colored genital discharge and warts. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://metro.co.uk/2012/10/09/std-cupcakes-cancer-cookies-and-marshmallow-brain-created-by-baker-596315/
There’s a persistent lava lake in Mount Michael, a volcano on Saunders Island in the Antarctic, which has been there since at least 2003. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/65872-rare-lava-lake-antarctica.html
The Big Dipper which makes up part of the constellation Ursa Major is known as The Plough in the UK and Le Casserole in France. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.skyguide.org.uk/constellations/ursamajor/ursamajor.htm