The 3 Musketeers candy bar got its name because each bar originally came as three pieces, each with a different flavor: vanilla, strawberry, and chocolate. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Heroic Medic Waverly Woodson
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
WTF Fun Fact – The Polka Tulk Blues Band
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
WTF Fun Fact – World Record Crap Roll
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
WTF Fun Fact – Unique Escape From Federal Prison
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
WTF Fun Fact – Lake Pe(i)psi
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)
WTF Fun Fact – Roller Coaster vs Sin
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
WTF Fun Fact – Beer For Breakfast
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
WTF Fun Fact – Covid-19 Life Expectancy
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