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
There’s an iPhone app to detect a ripe watermelon. You repeatedly knock on the fruit with phone’s microphone nearby and it analyzes the sound. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cnet.com/news/melon-meter-ios-app-listens-for-ripe-watermelons/
Juan Pujol García was a rogue spy during WWII. Britain’s MI5 declined his offer to be their spy and he went and spied on Germany anyways as a double agent. He lived in Lisbon and made up an elaborate network of fictional agents and reports based on tourist guides and other public sources. He is one of the only people to be awarded a medal by both the Axis and Allies. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Pujol_Garc%C3%ADa
The national bird of Peru is the Andean cock-of-the-rock. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andean_cock-of-the-rock
A Texas man was sentenced to 50 years in jail for stealing $1.2 million worth of fajitas. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/fajita-heist-texas-man-sentenced-50-years-stealing-1-2-n868451
The wreck of the RMS Titanic was found during the Cold War as part of a secret US Naval investigation of two sunken nuclear submarines. The Navy never expected the oceanographer to actually find the Titanic. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/titanic-nuclear-submarine-scorpion-thresher-ballard/