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WTF Fun Fact – Do You Trust Your Wife?

August 1, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Do You Trust Your Wife

ABC hosted a gameshow in the 1950’s called Do You Trust Your Wife? Married couples were asked a series of questions but only the husbands were told the category of the upcoming question and would then have to decide whether to answer the question themselves or “trust” their wives to answer. – WTF Fun Facts

Source:  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Do_You_Trust%3F#

WTF Fun Fact – Dead Snail In A Beer

July 22, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Dead Snail In A Beer

 Modern negligence law is a result of the 1932 court case Donoghue v Stevenson in Scotland, where Mrs. Donoghue sued Mr. Stevenson after drinking a bottle of ginger beer with a dead snail in it and becoming ill. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donoghue_v_Stevenson

WTF Fun Fact – Chrysler’s Corinthian Leather

July 17, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Chrysler's Corinthian Leather

In the 1970’s, Chrysler advertised their luxury cars as containing ‘Corinthian leather’ with Ricardo Montalbán as the spokesman. On Late Night with David Letterman, Montalbán playfully admitted that the term meant nothing. The leather was actually sourced from New Jersey. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinthian_leather

WTF Fun Fact – No Elephants For US

February 20, 2023July 16, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - No Elephants For US

President Abraham Lincoln had to write a letter to the King of Thailand politely declining his gift of elephants and stating his preference to use steam engines instead.–WTF Fun Facts

WTF Fun Fact – Bamboo Covered Taj Mahal

July 17, 2020July 16, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Bamboo Covered Taj Mahal

During World War 2, the Taj Mahal’s dome was covered with bamboo scaffolding by the British government to make it difficult for German and Japanese bombers to identify it.–WTF Fun Facts

Source:https://www.outlookindia.com/outlooktraveller/travelnews/story/69399/the-taj-mahal-under-camouflage

WTF Fun Fact – Assassination Finally A Federal Crime

July 15, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Assassination Federal Crime

Despite the assassinations of three US Presidents, (Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley) killing or attempting to harm a President wasn’t a federal crime until 1965, two years after JFK’s death. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://edition.cnn.com/2018/03/20/us/jfk-assassination-5-things/index.html

WTF Fun Fact – Pepsi’s Navy

July 14, 2020July 14, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Military Power Of Pepsi

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/

WTF Fun Fact – How Scribes Vent

July 13, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - How Scribes Vent

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

WTF Fun Fact – The Mad Dane

July 12, 2020July 12, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - The Mad Dane

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

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Nis_Christiansen

WTF Fun Fact – Bulgarian Umbrella

July 11, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Assassin Umbrellas

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

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella

WTF Fun Fact – Aeroflot Flight 6502

July 9, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Aeroflot Flight 6502

In 1986, Soviet pilot Alexander Kliuyev made a bet with his co-pilot that he could land Aeroflot Flight 6502 using an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows (no visual contact with the ground.) The plane ultimately crashed and 70 people died. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeroflot_Flight_6502

WTF Fun Fact – Good Vibes Cost A Fortune

July 6, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Good Vibrations Cost A Fortune

The Beach Boys song “Good Vibrations” used 90 hours of tape from 17 separate recording dates with LA’s top sessioneers. The cost of recording was estimated to be over $50,000, or roughly half a million adjusted for inflation. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.uncut.co.uk/features/the-making-of-the-beach-boys-good-vibrations-34867/

WTF Fun Fact – Play-Doh Wallpaper Cleaner

July 4, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Play-doh Wallpaper Cleaner

Play-Doh was not intended as a children’s toy at first. It was originally sold to help remove coal residue from wallpaper. When sales fell after WWII, it was remarketed as the toy modelling clay product known today. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play-Doh

WTF Fun Fact – Ship-Salvage Lobbyists

July 2, 2020 by WTFFF Master
WTF Fun Fact - Ship-Salvage Lobbyists

In the 1800’s, the ship-salvage industry lobbied against early weather forecasting which resulted in the suspension of weather forecasts and storm warnings. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/11/23/writers-in-the-storm

WTF Fun Fact – Ancient Slingshot Bullets

June 26, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Ancient Slingshot Bullets

Archaeologists have found slingshot “bullets” from 4th Century BC Greece engraved with the Greek word “ΔΕΞΑΙ”, which translates to “take that!” or “catch!” – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1851-0507-11

WTF Fun Fact – Weeper

June 26, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Weeper

A “weeper” is a piece of fabric wrapped around a hat or bicep of an undertaker or mourner. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://greensdictofslang.com/entry/kvdfofy

WTF Fun Fact – Order of the Pug

June 23, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Order of the Pug

Roman Catholics in Bavaria founded a secret society in 1740 called the ‘Order of the Pug’. For initiation, new members had to wear dog collars and scratch at the door to get in. Established members would then bark at them while they were blindfolded and led around the room. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Pug

WTF Fun Fact – Purple Heart

June 21, 2020 by WTF
WTF Fun Fact - Excess Purple Hearts

Before Japan surrendered to end WW2, the US armed forces ordered 1.5 million Purple Heart medals in anticipation of a difficult land invasion. Roughly 500,000 were left after WW2, and that stock, although refurbished, is still likely being used today. – WTF Fun Facts

Source: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/purple-heart-stockpile-wwii-medal.html

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