The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day came from General Foods trying to sell more grape nuts cereal during its 1944 marketing campaign. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://priceonomics.com/how-breakfast-became-a-thing/
The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day came from General Foods trying to sell more grape nuts cereal during its 1944 marketing campaign. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://priceonomics.com/how-breakfast-became-a-thing/
Photographer Robert Landsberg was taking photographs during the Mount St. Helens eruption in 1980. Upon realizing he wouldn’t survive, he lied down on top of his equipment to preserve the photographs he had taken of the event. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://huckberry.com/journal/posts/robert-landsburg-s-brave-final-shots
One-armed tennis player Hans Redl played at Wimbledon from 1947 to 1956. He served by tossing the ball up with his racket.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.pressreader.com/uk/daily-mail/20121016/282638914821007
According to the CIA’s 2013 data, the United States has 13,513 airports (recognizable from the air), which is more than the next 10 countries combined. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2053rank.html
In 2013, Disney abandoned its policy of letting disabled people skip lines in its theme parks, after rampant abuse of the rule by people hiring disabled “tour guides” to skip waiting lines for rides. These guides sometimes charged up to hundreds of dollars per hour. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/disneyland-disabled-no-longer-skip-lines/1931430/
There are only six full-time skywriters, those who use aircraft to expel special smoke during flight in patterns that create readable words from the ground, left in the world. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.vice.com/en_in/article/qjd347/there-are-only-six-full-time-skywriters-left-in-the-world
Rolling Stone magazine originally gave Nirvana’s Nevermind a 3-star rating in 1991. They now give it 5 stars and rank it as the 17th greatest album of all time. – WTF Fun Facts
Hawaii allows people to throw their beloved’s ashes into their volcanoes, as long as you pay a $25 permit and do it discretely. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nps.gov/havo/learn/management/scattering-of-ashes.htm
In 2011, an iPhone 4 fell out of a skydiver’s pocket and fell ~13500 ft, landing on top of the building a half mile away. The iPhone was still able to be located via it’s GPS signal as well as receive phone calls. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.engadget.com/2011-07-23-iphone-survives-13-500-foot-fall-from-skydivers-pocket.html