During the Great Depression, a banker convinced families in Quincy, Florida to buy Coca-Cola shares for $19 a piece. The town later became the single richest per capita in the USA with 67 millionaires. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-town-of-cocacola-millionaires-quincy-florida
In 1955, the Zion Meat Company held a beauty pageant during their national hot dog week and declared Geene Courtney the Sausage Queen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.littlethings.com/funny-bizarre-beauty-queens-1950s-1960s/1
China is the world’s largest mobile games market, accounting for over 25 per cent of global revenue. Domestic games revenue in China is expected to reach a staggering total of $42 billion by 2022. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.gamesindustry.biz/articles/2018-05-08-chinas-games-market-expected-to-reach-usd42-billion-by-2022
When Steve Madden, founder and CEO of the footwear company, was convicted of fraud and forced to resign, he created a new consultant position for himself that paid him $700k a year while in prison. – WTF Fun Facts
Up until 1858, all British Passports were written in French. The International Civil Aviation Organisation standard today recommends that, where the language of the issuing state is English, French or Spanish, they should supplement with one of the other languages. – WTF Fun Facts
A Louisiana school principal resigned by text after being arrested standing in the middle of a street for public intoxication. He was found outside a strip club where he refused to pay his bill, all while he was on a school trip to Washington D.C. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.klfy.com/news/top-stories-news/louisiana-principal-resigns-after-being-arrested-at-strip-club-while-on-school-field-trip/
The world’s largest model train set in Germany beat its own Guinness World Record by adding a large new section based on Monaco. It previously measured 39,370 feet of track and has now expanded to 51,558 feet, 4.78 inches of track. – WTF Fun Facts
According to a study with data sourced from phone apps, women on average tend to sleep a half hour longer than men, with women ages 25 and under getting the most sleep out of all. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2087231-women-sleep-half-an-hour-longer-than-men-phone-app-data-shows/
An endangered parrot in New Zealand was only mating with people’s heads, so they made as ‘ejaculation helmet’ for people to wear which would collect the bird’s rare semen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/seduced-rare-parrot-180962855/