In 1996, the search engine Google was known as “BackRub” alluding to how the program analyzed the internet’s “back links” to understand how popular and important a website was. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/the-true-story-behind-googles-first-name-backrub-2015-10?r=US&IR=T
A man from Kansas has asked an Iowa court to grant his motion for trial by combat, so he can meet his ex-wife and her attorney “on the field of battle where (he) will rend their souls from their corporal bodies.” – WTF Fun Facts
In 2015, the world’s first holographic protest was held in Madrid outside of one of their parliament buildings. They were protesting a new law which organizers said criminalizes the right to protest. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2015/04/12/europe/spain-hologram-protest/
Scooby Doo’s excessive use of the letter “R” is the result of a speech disorder known as rhotacization. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/we-finally-have-a-name-for-scooby-doos-speech-disorder
Since 2015, there has been a Hungry Hungry Hippos World Championship held every year at Gen Con in Indiana. – WTF Fun Facts
Snoop Dog employs his own full-time blunt roller paying him between $40,000-50,000 a year. His blunt roller has gotten to know Snoop so well that he can read his face and delivers a joint exactly when Snoop needs one. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.hypefresh.co/snoop-dogg-employs-a-professional-blunt-roller/
The town of Rabbit Hash, Kentucky has elected a dog for a mayor since 1998. The first mayor was a dog named Goofy Borneman-Calhoun and the most recent is a French Bulldog named Wilbur Beast. – WTF Fun Facts
Mel Blanc, the voice actor behind cartoon characters Porky Pig, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Woody Woodpecker, Tweety Bird, Yosemite Sam, and many more, has his famous tagline “That’s all folks” on his gravestone. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Blanc
At the end of 2019, Leonardo DiCaprio and his friends aboard a luxury yacht helped search for and found another vessel’s overboard crew member who had been treading water for 11 hours near another Caribbean island. – WTF Fun Facts