A San Diego Chipotle customer in a wheelchair successfully sued them in 2010. He claimed their tall order counter denied him from the full “Chipotle experience” – like watching the order be assembled. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: ADA Accessibility Denied: Ensuring the “Chipotle Experience” for Everyone (foxrothschild.com)
In 2004, A Malaysian women spent over a month in a glass box at a shopping mall with over 6,000 scorpions. She was only stung 7 times. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3675556.stm
Most people with chocolate allergies aren’t actually allergic to cocoa or any official ingredients but rather the cockroach parts contained in it, which the FDA deems safe up to a certain limit. Removing insect parts entirely would require pesticide use which is unhealthier. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Chocolate allergies linked to cockroach parts (nbcnews.com)
In circus lingo, a strolling vendor who sells concessions like popcorn and toys to the audience is called a “butcher.” The origin story is that the first person to do this was the animal meat butcher on the Old John Robinson Show. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Circus and Carnival Lingo and Slang (circusesandsideshows.com)
In Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro the voting age is 18, but 16- to 18-year-olds can vote if they are employed. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: cje4965.pdf
In Switzerland, rabies was virtually eliminated after scientists placed chicken heads laced with the live attenuated vaccine in the Alps, which the foxes (the main carriers of the virus) ate thus immunizing themselves. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Rabies – Wikipedia
In 2003, a man in Oregon managed to successfully grow a “tomacco” plant – a hybrid of a tobacco and tomato plant. The plant, straight out of a 1999 “The Simpson’s” episode, managed to bear fruit for a year and a half. –WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wired.com/2003/11/simpsons-plant-seeds-of-invention/
In 1958, Vice President Richard Nixon unknowingly carried Louis Armstrong’s suitcase containing 3 pounds of marijuana through US customs at Idlewild Airport in New York.
Source: Nixon Unknowingly ‘Muled’ for Pot Smuggling Louis Armstrong? (niagarafallsreporter.com)
In 2016, British actor Michael Caine, born Maurice Micklewhite, legally changed his name to his stage name after he got sick of the continuous hassle at the airport because security knew him only as Michael Caine. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: My name is Michael Caine … actor changes name due to Isis | Michael Caine | The Guardian