Twenty percent of all marriages globally are between first cousins. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-ban-cousin-marriages_b_2567162?guccounter=1
Fun Fact – Marrying your cousin?
Fun Fact – Missing mummified member
King Tut is the only mummy from ancient Egypt known to have been mummified with an erection. His member subsequently broke off soon after the mummy was discovered. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.livescience.com/42290-king-tut-mummified-penis-explained.html
Fun Fact Supreme’s Ironic Logo
The skating brand Supreme‘s logo is ironically based on propaganda artist Barbara Kruger’s anti-consumerism works. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.complex.com/style/2013/05/supreme-court-the-12-greatest-moments-of-supremes-legal-battle-with-leah-mcsweeney/132
Fun Fact – Viagra failure
The drug Viagra (or sildenafil) was originally intended to be a heart medication designed to treat angina by increasing blood flow to the heart, but it failed at that. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,139084,00.html
Fun Fact – Trufulla trees are real
There was an actual tree in La Jolla which inspired Dr. Seuss’s Trufulla trees in his book The Lorax. The ~100 year old Monterey Cypress unexpectedly fell over in June 2019. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.lajolla.com/article/dr-seuss-la-jolla/
Food Fact – Americans eat billions of hot dogs
Americans eat 20 billion hot dogs annually, which is about 70 hot dogs per person. They are served in 95% of American homes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://hot-dog.org/
Fun Fact – Star Trek’s famous phrase never actually said
The famous Star Trek phrase “Beam me up, Scotty!” was never actually said in any of the Star Trek films or television shows. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/103742/has-the-phrase-beam-me-up-scotty-been-used-in-tas-or-any-movies
Fun Fact – Real Har(var)d Admissions
In 1941, Harvard University undergrad had an acceptance rate of 92%, compared to the 4.5% for the class of 2023. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1956/1/6/admissions-what-kind-of-wheat-to/?page=1
https://www.toptieradmissions.com/resources/college-admissions-statistics/harvard-university-acceptance-rates/
Fun Fact – Australia’s own Night Watch
Australia’s first police force (the Night Watch) was made up of 12 of the best behaved criminals. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/australias-first-cops-were-all-criminals.aspx