The Washington Monument is capped with a 9″, 100 ounce aluminum pyramid. Aluminum was a precious metal in 1884 and the pyramid was displayed at Tiffany’s jewelry store in New York before it was placed at the top. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/gilded/jb_gilded_monument_3.html
In 2012, Choi Gap-bok escaped from prison by squeezing his body through a 5.9″ tall and 17.7″ wide food slot when the guards were sleeping. He is a yoga practitioner and applied skin ointment to his body in order to slip out. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/choi-gap-bok-prison-escape_n_1919866
In 2018, Snoop Dogg set the world record for the largest paradise cocktail with a ~132 gallon gin and juice at the BottleRock Napa Valley music festival. It contained 180 bottles of gin, 154 bottles of apricot brandy, and just 38 jugs of orange juice. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2018/05/29/snoop-dogg-breaks-guinness-world-record-largest-gin-and-juice/650560002/
The anthropologist Grover Krantz, who was infamous for believing in Bigfoot’s existence, donated his body to the Smithsonian on the condition his dogs were kept close to him. The museum honored his request. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://remains417.rssing.com/chan-35265043/all_p3.html
Avocados nearly went extinct 13,000 years ago after large animals like the mammoth and giant ground sloth went extinct. With no means of dispersing the seeds, it was left to early farmers to cultivate the species. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/why-the-avocado-should-have-gone-the-way-of-the-dodo-4976527/
Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire at the exact middle of his life, down to the day. He lived 18,565 days and on day 9,283 (Jan 27, 1984) his hair caught on fire during a Pepsi commercial shoot. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/michael-jackson-burned-filming-commercial-1984-article-1.2511008
Mark Zuckerberg created an AI assistant for his home named Jarvis, after the butler in Iron Man, that is voiced by Morgan Freeman. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38390798
In 1936, Vladimir Lukyanov built a water (integrator) computer. It was the world’s first computer for solving (partial) differential equations for Russia. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/338106
There’s a town in Alaska named Chicken. The citizens wanted to name it Ptarmigan after a popular local bird but they couldn’t agree on the spelling so they went with chicken instead. – WTF Fun Facts