Serial killer Ed Kemper befriended the very police officers investigating his murders and would socialize with them at a bar called the Jury Room. They called him “Big Ed” and never suspected him and thought he was joking when he confessed. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://tpgonlinedaily.com/dark-side-history-edmund-kemper/
The sale and production of Vodka was banned in Russia between 1914 and 1925. The Tsar issued the decree to assist with mobilization as Russia entered the First World War. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.rbth.com/arts/2014/08/18/when_the_tsar_banned_booze_37603
A jelly bean takes anywhere from 7 to 21 days to make. It starts with liquid sugar and flavors being heated and mixed with starch and glucose. More sugar is added to give it a hard shell plus hot syrup and wax are applied to give it a shiny finish – all over the course of many days of processing. – WTF Fun Facts
The French phrase rire dans sa barbe translates ‘to laugh in one’s beard’ meaning to laugh quietly about a past event. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.talkinfrench.com/weird-french-expressions-part-3/
In 2004, after a particularly bad locust plague in Australia, two local agricultural officers created a more palatable name and cook book with 20 “sky prawn” recipes titled Cooking With Sky Prawns. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/1477219/A-plague-of-locusts-Think-of-them-as-delicious-sky-prawns.html
A recent study found children are 39% more likely to buy a particular brand of automobile if their parents bought that brand. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-10/msu-pdk100214.php
There’s a 2001 cult film called Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter. The plot has a modern-day Jesus struggling to protect the lesbians of Ottowa, Ontario from vampire with the help of Mexican wrestler El Santo. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ_Vampire_Hunter
In Germany, those who urinate in the streets are known as wildpinklers, meaning “free pee-ers”. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.thelocal.de/20151127/cologne-wards-off-drunks-with-walls-that-pee-back
In 1955, the Zion Meat Company held a beauty pageant during their national hot dog week and declared Geene Courtney the Sausage Queen. – WTF Fun Facts
Source: https://www.littlethings.com/funny-bizarre-beauty-queens-1950s-1960s/1
Gorillas sing happy songs while they eat. They don’t sing the same song every time, and they sing louder while eating their favorite food. – WTF Fun Facts