Dr. Seuss cheated on his wife while she had cancer. After finding out about the affair, she killed herself and Dr. Seuss married his mistress. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://mentalfloss.com/article/24101/quick-10-10-grown-facts-about-dr-seuss
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WTF Fun Fact – Potato Farmer Ultramarathoner
In 1983, a 61-year-old potato farmer Cliff Young won the inaugural Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in overall and work boots. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://elitefeet.com/the-legend-of-cliff-young
WTF Fun Fact – Sea Squirt Tasty Brain
The sea squirt starts as an egg, develops into a tadpole of sorts, then attaches itself to an object – boat hull, rocks, ocean floor and doesn’t move again. It then consumes its own brain as it is longer required. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/choke/201207/how-humans-learn-lessons-the-sea-squirt
WTF Fun Fact – Moonshine Ingredients
Cocktails became popular during Prohibition because juices were needed to hide the taste of some of the ingredients in the moonshine like dead rats, rotten meat, wood tar, and others. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Baseball Trash Talk
Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/ichiro-learned-to-speak-spanish-just-so-he-could-talk-trash/
10000 Facts!!!!
This is our 10,000th Fact! Thanks to all for joining us on this factual journey! See you all at 20,000! – WTF Fun Facts
Other 10,000 related facts include:
- 10,000 is known as a Myriad in Ancient Greek.
- The Roman numeral for 10,000 comes out as a tasty: MMMMMMMMMM.
- Boeing produced it’s 10,000th 737 aircraft in March of 2018.
- Counting from 1 to 10,000 would take you about two hours.
- In birdwatching, 10,000 birds is known as a blog.
- There is no zip code 10000 in the USA.
WTF Fun Fact – Oh The Horror
Horror writer Stephen King sleeps with his lights on. King admitted to sleeping with the lights on back in 1982 when he was just really getting started in his career. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.openculture.com/2014/06/stephen-king-first-tv-interview.html
WTF Fun Fact – Pray For Snapeists
There’s a fiction-based religion called Snapeism which has Snapewives or Snapeists who channel Snape, are in romantic relationships with him, and use him as a guide for their daily lives. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/5/1/219/htm
WTF Fact – Deceased In Space
There are only 3 human beings that have died outside Earth’s atmosphere. They are the three cosmonauts who died aboard the Soyuz 11 in 1971. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/07/23/only_three_humans_have_died_in_space_the_story_of_soyuz_11.html