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)
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
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
In 1524, a statue of the Virgin Mary at the Cathedral in Riga, Latvia, was accused of being a witch. They put it on trial by water and threw it in the Dvina river. Since the wooden statue floated, they declared it guilty and burned it. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2017, a KFC “spacecraft” brought a Kentucky Fried Chicken Zinger sandwich into space aboard a high-altitude balloon, where it stayed for four days before returning to Earth. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: When KFC *actually* went to space: Before Zinger 1, there was ‘Chix in Space’ | collectSPACE
Pitcairn island is a small volcanic island in the Pacific that was founded by mutineers from the HMS Bounty in 1789. Today it has a population of ~50. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Pitcairn Islands – Wikipedia
Research has found cleaner air has boosted U.S. corn and soybean yields by an estimated 20% over the last 20 years. The reduction in pollution has resulted in an increase of ~$5 billion per year. – WTF Fun Facts
In 1997, hydrophones captured the “Bloop,” which was one of the loudest underwater sounds ever recorded and could be heard more than 3,000 miles away. It’s origin was a mystery for years until scientists studied additional iceberg activity and now believe it was likely made by an ice quake. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The Bloop mystery has been solved: it was never a giant sea monster | WIRED UK
The percontation point, a reversed question mark and later referred to as a rhetorical question mark, was proposed by Henry Denham in the 1580s and was used at the end of a question that does not require an answer. Its use died out in the 17th century. – WTF Fun Facts