Amelia Earhart rejected her eventual husband, George Putnam’s, marriage proposals five times and finally accepted the sixth offer but agreed only to a temporary, one-year marriage to test the feasibility of the relationship. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/amelia-earhart-letter-to-fiance_n_4591561?guccounter=1
When squirrels have spare nuts they bury them, digging a separate hole for each. However, researchers found that up to 20% of the time they are elaborately faking burying nuts to trick would-be thieves. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg19726395-400-squirrels-fake-it-to-fool-would-be-thieves/
In 2007, archaeologists discovered the oldest known wine-making facility in the world. It was found within a cave (Areni-1) near Areni in present-day Armenia and dates back 6100 years. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/1/110111-oldest-wine-press-making-winery-armenia-science-ucla/
Qian Xuesen, a Chinese rocket scientist and mathematician, worked on the Manhattan Project during WW2 to help America build the world’s first atomic bomb. During the Cold War, he was accused of being a communist and fled to China, where he helped China build its first atomic bomb. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qian_Xuesen
A 2016 Cornell study found that you are four times more likely to order dessert if your waiter or waitress was overweight. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.fastcompany.com/3055212/youre-more-likely-to-order-dessert-if-your-waiter-is-fat
The profane Hungarian response to being given an unreasonably large workload is “bekergettek tatott szajjal a faszerdobe,” or “They chased me into the dick-forest with a wide open mouth.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vnutz.com/curse_and_swear/hungarian
WD-40 is named as such because it was the 40th formulation that finally worked for the fledgling Rocket Chemical Company. The “WD” simply stands for water displacement. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.wd40company.com/our-company/our-history/
The Observer was the world’s first Sunday newspaper. It was first published on December 4, 1791 by W.S. Bourne. It was unprofitable and soon became subsidized by the government, thus losing their editorial independence. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Observer
The first empirical study on “dick pics” found that 48% of men have sent unsolicited pictures of their genitals. Those men who send unsolicited pictures are also bigger narcissists and more sexist than their counterparts. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_ca/article/7xgaje/men-who-send-unsolicited-dick-pics-are-bigger-narcissists-study-finds