WTF Fact Train

Happy Birthday! Born this day 1948; Robert Plant

Leonarda Cianciulli was an Italian who murdered three women in Correggio from1939 - 1940, and turned their bodies into soap and teacakes

A Moebius band is a loop with a single twist in it

The largest slug species of slug in the world is Limax cinereoniger of Europe, which can reach 12 inches long

Floors numbered "18" are often very expensive in China as the Chinese symbol for 18 can indicate that one is going to prosper

We trash 21.5 million tons of food/year. Composting it would reduce the same amount of greenhouse gas as taking 2 million cars off the road.

A zipper was originally called a C-Curity

The first golfer to hit a ball over 400 yards with a six iron was Alan Shepherd (he did it on the moon)

The plural of opus is opera (literally 'grand works')

In "Bewitched" dopey Aunt Clara used to collect doorknobs

Volleyball was originally called mintonette

The first man made object to break the sound barrier was a whip - when cracked the tip breaks the sound barrier

Escaping convicts used to drop red herrings to put dogs off the scent

A cannon is fired at 1.00 pm daily in the Scottish capital, Edinburgh

'Terra' is the astronomical name for Earth; for the moon it's 'moon'

Kangaroos lick their forearms when nervous

Olive Oyl's first boyfriend was Ham Gravy

The full name of the computer language FORTRAN is Formula Translation

In Australia a willie-willie is a small cyclone or whirlwind

Popcorn pops because of water expanding