In Roald Dahl’s Charlie and Chocolate Factory, the Oompa-Loompas where at one point known as Whipple-Scrumpets.– WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28980257
WTF Fun Fact – Whipple-Scrumpets
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WTF Fun Fact – The Milky Way Tastes Like Raspberries
The center of the Milky Way tastes like raspberries and smells like Captain Morgan. Astronomers researching the giant dust cloud in the middle of the galaxy found the chemical ethyl formate, which gives raspberries their flavor and smells like rum. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2009/apr/21/space-raspberries-amino-acids-astrobiology
WTF Fun Fact – NASA Sextant And Slide Rule
On NASA’s Gemini XII flight, the computer docking system failed and Buzz Aldrin (who did his doctoral thesis at MIT on line-of-sight orbital mechanics) successfully calculated the docking trajectory using a sextant and a slide rule. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.nasa.gov/feature/gemini-xii-crew-masters-the-challenges-of-spacewalks
WTF Fun Fact – User Your Emoji’s
A 2015 study in the UK found that 72% of 18 to 25-year-olds believe it’s easier to communicate their feelings with emojis rather than it is with words. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/32793732/uks-fastest-growing-language-is-emoji
WTF Fun Fact – Elephants Console One Another
A recent study found elephants console one another when they are upset with gentle touches and trunk strokes. Previously, only humans, great apes, and birds in the raven family were known to do this. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-elephants-console-one-another-when-times-get-tough-180949830/
WTF Fun Fact – Francis Pegahmagabow
Francis Pegahmagabow was a Canadian indigenous man who fought in WWI. He killed 378 enemies with his Ross rifle and captured another 300, making him one of the most successful marksmen in WWI. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/legendary-ojibwa-sniper-unsung-hero-of-ww-i-1.2725241
WTF Fun Fact – Vesna Vulović
Vesna Vulović was a Serbian flight attendant who was the only surivor after JAT Flight 367 exploded on January 26, 1972. As a result, she holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute. She fell over 33,000 feet while trapped in the fuselage. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulovi%C4%87
WTF Fun Fact – Magnus Carlsen Grandmaster
While playing a 3-minute blitz game of chess at the World Championships in 2019, grandmaster Magnus Carlsen wasted 20 seconds of his time taking his suit coat off, drinking water, and organizing his pieces – and still won. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQqpeMNtL5A
WTF Fun Fact – Walt Disney World’s Singing Runway
Walt Disney World once had it’s own airport with a singing runway (Lake Buena Vista STOLPort runway). Grooves in the tarmac were spaced so the lines played the opening notes of “When You Wish Upon a Star”. The airport closed in 1972. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/singing-runway-at-the-abandoned-disney-world-airport