Almon Strowger invented the automatic telephone exchange, which eliminated the need for operators, after he learned he was losing business because the wife of his competitor was redirecting calls asking for Strowger to her husband. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almon_Brown_Strowger
Lying flat on your back with arms and legs spread is your best bet for surviving a falling elevator. – WTF Fun Facts
Hairdresser Alberto Olmedo in Madrid, Spain was disappointed with normal scissors and inspired by medieval barbers, cuts hair with a samurai sword, a blow torch, and metal claws. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://abc7news.com/society/barber-in-spain-uses-samurai-swords-blow-torch-to-cut-hair/4988531/
Postwoman Galina Yermolova uses a monster truck made by a friend to get supplies to her isolated Siberian town. – WTF Fun Facts
The specially created NASA Space Pen is used instead of a simple pencil because the graphite contained in pencils is conductive and can cause short circuits and potentially fires. – WTF Fun Facts
The party game of Twister was originally called Pretzel, but Milton Bradley changed the name in 1965 due to trademark issues. – WTF Fun Facts
In 2015, three inmates from a maximum-security prison beat Harvard’s debate team in a competitive debate arranged by the Bard College Prison Initiative. – WTF Fun Facts
There are ~150 wallabies living in the forest of Rambouillet near Paris, France. They are descendants of several wallabies that escaped from the local zoo in the 1970’s. – WTF Fun Facts
Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was also fascinated with breeding sheep with extra nipples after he purchased some land that came with a flock of sheep. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.producer.com/1997/10/telephone-inventor-researched-sheep-teats/
