Category: Fun Facts

When Walt Disney began plans for Walt Disney World, he decided to keep it as much of a secret as he could. Before deciding on a location, he and his team searched for years for a site. They considered opening a theme park in New Jersey, but passed due to the seasonality they would have […]

Like most kids, Amos Dudley has braces as a teenager. But, as he got older, he felt his teeth starting to shift back, and he began to get more self-conscious about his smile. At 24 years old, the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) student set out to find his own solution. After all, what […]

When Andy George uploaded a video on YouTube in 2015, entitled “How to Make a $1500 Sandwich in Only Six Months,” everyone thought it was a joke. What they didn’t know was that George really had taken on the task of creating every aspect of a sandwich completely from scratch as part of a new […]

Harris Rosen was fired from his job at Disney World in the early 1970s because despite playing a role in the development of resorts including the Contemporary and Polynesian, they didn’t feel he was a “company man”. Upon his firing, he used his life savings to put a deposit down on a Quality Inn, where […]

Michael Jackson was filming a Pepsi commercial in front of hundreds of fans in 1983, when his hair caught on fire. It was the result of failed pyrotechnics. Jackson, unaware that his hair was burning, continued to dance, until someone ran on stage and put out the fire. In the weeks that followed, he had […]

Julia Stewart became the CEO of Applebee’s in 2008, after IHOP purchased Applebee’s. It was truly a full-circle experience for Stewart. Then 52 years old at the time of her appointment as CEO, she had started within the company at just 16 years of age. She worked at IHOP as a waitress, beginning in her […]

Before it was an Oscar and Golden Globe winner, Good Will Hunting was a script for a modest-budget film written by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. The two had sent the script to numerous studios, several of which had made them offers. Studios were jumping at the chance to have Matt Damon and Ben Affleck […]

Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki ran a science-focused radio show in the early 2000s, which led to one of his most unique experiments ever. A nurse called in wanting to know if she was contaminating the sterile room she worked in when she silently farted. Curious about the answer, Dr. Kruszelnicki vowed to find out. He worked […]

The Elkmont Half Marathon takes place in Alabama each year in January. In 2016, the runners had a very special guest join them. Ludivine is a bloodhound who lived near the start of the half marathon route. When the owners let her outside to go to the bathroom, she joined the group of people and […]

With great technology comes great responsibility—or at least that’s what some of the most notable people in the world are thinking. Mark Zuckerberg revealed in a photo that he tapes over his webcam and microphone jack on his laptop. Similarly, James Comey, former FBI director, puts a piece of tape over the camera. Though they […]