The Bath curse tablets are a collection of ~130 Roman era tablets discovered in 1979 in Bath, England. The tablets invoke the intercession of the goddess Sulis Minerva to aid in the return of the stolen goods and to curse the thieves. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – PacManhattan
In 2004, NYU students created a real-world version of Pac-Man entitled PacManhattan, in which a player dressed as Pac-Man had to run around the city avoiding students dressed as ghosts. The game used mobile phone GPS signals to track their positions. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Pac Manhattan
WTF Fun Fact – Double Rainbow Details
In the case of a double rainbow, the secondary rainbow is nearly twice as wide as the primary bow. Another key feature of double rainbows is that the color sequence in the second rainbow is reversed (VIBGYOR vs ROYGBIV). – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Football / Prolate Spheroid
The football shape is known as a prolate spheroid. The football is shaped as such because it’s the shape of an inflated pig’s bladder, which is what the first footballs were made out of. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – World’s Highest Unclimbed Mountain
At 24,981 ft, Gangkhar Puensum – the 40th highest mountain in the world – is the world’s highest unclimbed mountain. The mountain, which is located in Bhutan, is banned from climbers out of respect for local spiritual beliefs. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – Beer Transfusion Saves Mans Life
A Vietnamese man was hospitalized after drinking too much methanol. Doctors transfused 15 cans of beer into his body to revive him. The liver breaks down ethanol before methanol which gave doctors more time to do dialysis to remove the alcohol from his system. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Doctors Saved Man’s Life by Pumping 15 Cans of Beer Into His Body (newsweek.com)
WTF Fun Fact – Netflix Commercial Savings
Netflix saved its average user from 9.1 days of commercials in 2019. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: ANALYSIS: Netflix Saved Its Average User From 9.1 Days of Commercials in 2019 – Reviews.com
WTF Fun Fact – The Creation Of White Chocolate
White chocolate was originally created as a coating for a children’s medicinal product called Nestrovit. Nestlé worked with pharmaceutical group Roche on their formula which was primarily vitamin-enriched condensed milk. – WTF Fun Facts
WTF Fun Fact – The Tallest Mountain Is Not Mount Everest
The tallest mountain from base to summit is not Mt. Everest but instead Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii. Everest stands 29,035 feet above sea level but Mauna Kea is ~33,500 feet tall with over half of its height underwater. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/earths-tallest-mountain-is-hawaii-2015-6