In 2003, the London Underground piloted playing classical music in tube stations to deter anti-social behavior which resulted in train robberies falling by 33%, verbal assaults on staff dropping 25%, and vandalism decreasing by 37% over an18 month period. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Francesinha
Portugal’s Porto is home to the Francesinha sandwich, which traditionally is made with steak, ham, fresh sausage, dry sausage and is covered in melted cheese and beer sauce. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Francesinha – Wikipedia
WTF Fun Fact – Clear Blue Lake
The clearest natural fresh water in the world is within Blue Lake in Nelson, New Zealand. Visibility in the lake is up to 80 meters, meaning the water is considered almost as optically clear as distilled water. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Blue Lake (Tasman) – Wikipedia
WTF Fun Fact – Swimming Timing
Olympic swimming is only timed to hundredths of a second (which has led to several ties) because the pools aren’t built to the millimeter tolerances necessary to measure thousandths of a second. – WTF Fun Facts
Source:#EngineeringTheOlympics: Tolerance in Olympic Swimming results in more ties — Born to Engineer
WTF Fun Fact – Motley Brue
In 1997, Mötley Crüe created a soda called “Mötley Brüe” to help promote their new album “Generation Swine.” They intentionally added so much blue dye to the soda it would turn the drinker’s urine into a green color. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generation_Swine
WTF Fun Fact – Jeremy Meeks
Jeremy Meeks’ mugshot was so good that he got a modeling contract while he was still in jail. He served 13 months in jail and walked in NY Fashion Week a year later. He also walked in Milan Fashion Week, helped launch a fashion line, acted – all within 5 years of his release. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Jeremy Meeks – Wikipedia
WTF Fun Fact – Roberto Solis
Roberto Solis was sentenced to life in prison in 1969 for murdering an armored truck driver. He became a successful poet in prison under an alias which led multiple popular writers to petition for his release. He was released and in 1993 he robbed an armored truck for $3 million and is still on the run. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: A fugitive turns herself in after 12 years (nbcnews.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Allicin
If you rub fresh garlic on the soles of your feet, about an hour later you can actually taste the garlic. This is because the molecule that causes garlic’s smell, allicin, is small enough to penetrate the skin and blood vessels, where it goes all the way up to your mouth and nose. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Viking’s Onion Soup
Vikings fed their wounded soldiers a strong onion soup to help gauge how deep a stomach wound was. After a few minutes, they would smell the wound and if they could smell the onion soup, they knew the wound was too deep and they could not be saved. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Why wounded viking warriors ate strong onion soup – We Are The Mighty