A man once sued a dry cleaner store for $67 million over a late return of a pair of $1000 pants. He reduced it to $45 million in court. The case was thrown out multiple times and the man, a judge himself, lost his job for a lack of “judicial temperament.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pearson_v._Chung
75% of the earth’s population, an estimated 4 billion people, who have no address for mailing purposes. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://qz.com/705273/mongolia-is-changing-all-its-addresses-to-three-word-phrases/
The highest crime rate per capita of any city in the world is at Vatican City where an average of 600 crimes (primarily petty theft) are committed per year, despite only having 800 residents. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_Vatican_City
Ronald Reagan enjoyed the White House’s squirrel population so much that on his last day in office he left a sign for them warning them to beware of George H.W. Bush’s dog. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/11/politics/remarks-by-former-president-george-hw-bush.html
In 1936, Cleveland lost the largest book in the world. The Golden Book of Cleveland was 7 feet by 5 feet and 3 feet thick, with 6,000 pages – about the size of a queen-size bed. It weighed ~2 1/2 tons. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://clevelandmagazine.com/in-the-cle/the-read/articles/the-golden-book-of-cleveland
There are 12 copies of the Gutenberg Bible which were printed on vellum. Each of these copy’s required ~170 calf hides. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bl.uk/treasures/gutenberg/vellum.html
A new microbe called a hemimastigote was found in Nova Scotia. The Hemimastix kukwesjijk is not a plant, animal, fungus, or protozoa. It constitutes an entirely new kingdom, a new branch on the tree of life. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-a-newfound-kingdom-means-for-the-tree-of-life/
Some lizards have a visible third eye known as a parietal eye, which is an opalescent gray spot on the top of their heads. The eye is sensitive to changes in light & dark but cannot form images. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.anapsid.org/parietal.html
Until 1937, it was illegal for men to be topless in the US – even on beaches. The fine was $1 if caught in New York City or its municipal beaches. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2019/01/05/men-were-once-arrested-baring-their-chests-beach/