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
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/
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