In the late 1980’s, Pepsi briefly owned 17 diesel submarines, a cruiser, a frigate, and a destroyer, all because of a $3 billion trade agreement with the USSR in which they exchanged soda for military equipment. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.redkalinka.com/Russian-Blog/78/_The-day-Pepsi-became-a-great-military-power/
The sex of all baby turtles depends on the temperature at which the eggs are incubated, this is called temperature dependent sex determination. A group of eggs laid at the same time is called a ‘clutch’. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: Alligator snapping turtle facts
Medieval scribes would frequently scribble complaints in the margins of books as they tediously copied them. Examples include “As the harbor is welcome to the sailor, so is the last line to the scribe” or “Let me now be blamed for the script, for the ink is bad, and the vellum defective, and the day is dark.” – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://blog.bookstellyouwhy.com/the-humorous-and-absurd-world-of-medieval-marginalia
Nymphas Show Bar is an abandoned underwater strip club located in Eilat, Israel. It was accessible to patrons by stairs from above sea level. – WTF Fun Facts
The 2018 movie Christopher Robin was banned from China as a result of a recent crackdown on Winnie The Pooh, who has become a symbol of resistance against the country’s ruling Communist Party and its leader, Xi Jinping. – WTF Fun Facts
Thor Christiansen was a serial killer who was only caught because his fifth would-be victim survived a gunshot to the head and escaped his vehicle. She recognized him months later in a bar and reported him to police who then linked him with four other then-unsolved murders. – WTF Fun Facts
In 1964, A Scotsman survived without eating for 1 year and 17 days and consequently only pooping every 40-50 days. He lived entirely off his excess body fat, yeast, and a multi-vitamins. He ended up losing 125 kg of weight. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/07/24/3549931.htm
A Bulgarian Umbrella is an umbrella with a hidden pneumatic mechanism which injects a small poisonous pellet containing ricin. It is named as such because the Bulgarian secret service used it to assassinate a Bulgarian dissident writer in 1978. – WTF Fun Facts
President Obama requested and received an advanced screening of Game Of Thrones season 6. A journalist then filed a request that he share it with all citizens under the Freedom Of Information Act. – WTF Fun Facts