Michael Jackson’s hair caught on fire at the exact middle of his life, down to the day. He lived 18,565 days and on day 9,283 (Jan 27, 1984) his hair caught on fire during a Pepsi commercial shoot. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/michael-jackson-burned-filming-commercial-1984-article-1.2511008
Mark Zuckerberg created an AI assistant for his home named Jarvis, after the butler in Iron Man, that is voiced by Morgan Freeman. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38390798
In 1936, Vladimir Lukyanov built a water (integrator) computer. It was the world’s first computer for solving (partial) differential equations for Russia. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/338106
There’s a town in Alaska named Chicken. The citizens wanted to name it Ptarmigan after a popular local bird but they couldn’t agree on the spelling so they went with chicken instead. – WTF Fun Facts
Tigers are orange in color because their main prey, deer, see them as green. Deer are only capable of seeing blue and green light, which makes them color-blind to red. – WTF Fun Facts
Some slaughterhouses use a ‘Judas goat’. It’s a trained goat that will calmly lead livestock to their slaughter while its own life is spared. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judas_goat
The inventor of the USB standard Ajay Bhatt intended for it to be reversible but the idea was abandoned due to additional cost. Despite it becoming the standard, he regrets the decision. – WTF Fun Facts
An upside down pineapple in your grocery cart, or as a bumper sticker, or an upside down door knocker indicates the person is into swinging. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://onairwithryan.iheart.com/featured/ryan-seacrest/content/2019-01-11-do-you-know-what-an-upside-down-pineapple-means-tanya-tests-it-out-/
In the remote Pilbara region of Australia, an aboriginal community built a train to carry their children to school. The train cars are made from metal barrels, and the locomotive is a tractor. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-28/punmu-students-use-barrel-train-to-travel-to-school/8660878?pfmredir=sm