Waverly Woodson was a medic who treated at least 200 injured men on D-Day while injured himself. Despite sustaining shrapnel injuries himself while landing, he set up an aid station and treated wounds for 30 hours, at one point even amputating a foot. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: A Black Medic Was Hailed as a D-Day Hero. Was He Deprived of a Medal of Honor? – HISTORY
Heavy metal band Black Sabbath’s original name was The Polka Tulk Blues Band – named after the brand name of a talcum powder Ozzy Osbourne’s mother used. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2009, Patricia Demauro brought $100 to a craps table in Atlantic City. Four hours and 18 minutes later, she had rolled 154 times, a world record for craps rolls. The odds of accomplishing this is 1 in 1.56 trillion. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1901663,00.html
In 2006, prisoner Richard Lee McNair got himself a job in prison repairing mail bags. He created a “pod” that fit under the mail bags on a pallet and a forklift transported him out of the prison. A police officer ran into him the same day of his escape but didn’t realize he was the escapee and he successfully fled to Canada. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Oklahoma Murderer Once Escaped Prison For The Third Time By ‘Mailing Himself Out’ – UNILAD
There is a lake in Estonia named Lake Peipsi. In 2003 the soda company PepsiCo tried to pay them $25 million dollars to change the spelling to Lake Pepsi, but they turned them down. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Read all about 2003, before it happens – a TBT exclusive (baltictimes.com)
Roller coasters were invented to distract Americans from sin. In the 1880’s businessman LaMarcus Thompson didn’t like people going to brothels and drinking, so he invented the rollercoaster to try and persuade people to go there for thrills instead. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: The Rollercoaster Was Invented to Save America From Satan | Smithsonian Magazine
Prior to the 1800’s and before coffee became widely available, the popular breakfast drink was beer. This was because plain water was usually contaminated, and coffee and tea were not widely available. Beer provided carbs you needed to get through the day. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Beer for Breakfast – Chowhound
The COVID-19 pandemic, which claimed more than 336,000 lives in the United States in 2020, significantly affected life expectancy. Life expectancy at birth for Americans will shorten by 1.13 years to 77.48 years, the largest single-year decline in life expectancy in over 40 years. – WTF Fun Facts
Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are able to fly across the Gulf of Mexico, ~500 miles, in one 20-hour non-stop flight. This flight requires more calories than the bird’s weight of ~3g, so they prepare by doubling their fat mass. They then expend their entire caloric reserve during the migration. – WTF Fun Facts