Category: Fun Facts

Bertha Mayne lived an average life as a singer in Paris, but she held onto one secret, her experience aboard the RMS Titanic. In 1911, she had met a young hockey player, Quigg Baxter, and they fell in love. Wanting to accompany him back to Montreal, she joined him aboard the world-class Titanic. She was […]

Bea Arthur might be known as sassy Dorothy on the popular show, The Golden Girls, but the actress’s impressive résumé goes far beyond her acting credits. Arthur, who died in 2009, served in the military for two and a half years when she was 21 years old. She always denied her time in the military, […]

Pele is known as the volcano goddess of Hawaii, and it seems that tourists take her wrath very seriously. Thousands of people visit the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park each year, and quite a few of them take sand, shells, and rocks as a memento from their trip. What these tourists didn’t suspect is what bad […]

Joseph Haydn is an icon in classical music, and it was no different during his lifetime in the late 1700s and early 1800s. In fact, his music saved lives. On February 2, 1795, Haydn, a local celebrity, directed a highly-anticipated new symphony at the King’s Theatre in London. The audience moved forward to try to […]

Airplane food has garnered a reputation for being less than stellar, especially in economy class, but that’s just a part of flying, right? Not if you’re the pilot. Pilots often get a business or first-class meal, or sometimes an entirely different menu made specifically for the pilots. Those soggy green beans you’re forced to suffer […]

No portrait is as famous as the Mona Lisa… except maybe an earlier version of the Mona Lisa. The earlier version is known as the Isleworth Mona Lisa, and it was discovered by a British art collector shortly before World War I. The painting was sent to America during World War I, then made its […]

In October of 1988, a dog fell to his death from a 13th story balcony in Buenos Aires. As if this wasn’t heartbreaking enough, the story gets more peculiar, as the dog’s death triggered the death of three others. The dog, named Cachi, knocked a 75-year-old woman in the head, which caused her to die […]

Casinos are a popular form of entertainment in the United States, but Indian casinos aren’t just for the visitors. As a matter of fact, they’re also helping make some tribes extremely wealthy. The Shakopee Mdewakanton tribe, located outside of Minneapolis, Minnesota, is the richest tribe in America. They own two casinos that allow for a […]

An elder from the Adnyamathanha, an indigenous Australian tribe, was exploring gorges in the area. As luck would have it, the man, Clifford Coulthard, has to use the bathroom, so he searched for an empty space to “do his business.” The area he came across was more than just a prime location for going to […]

Thimphu is the largest city in the small country of Bhutan, located in the Himalayas. Residents of the city also have a unique fixation on one item in particular—the phallus. Erect penises are painted in artwork, and statues are displayed on rooftops and in cities. The Buddhists in this kingdom believe that having phallic artwork […]