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2561. King Eadwig's Coronation Scandal-Eadwig, who was the King of England from 955-959 A.D., reportedly abandoned his coronation feast at the age of 15 to engage in a threesome with his future wife and her mother. The archbishop had to intervene, dragging him back to the coronation.

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2562. Parisians Made Bread from Bones-During the 1590 siege of Paris, severe food shortages drove desperate Parisians to grind human bones into bread. As the city faced starvation, people resorted to collecting bones from cemeteries, including the Holy Innocents Cemetery, and processing them into flour to make bread.

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2563. Sean Astin's Lost Treasure Map-After actor Sean Astin turned 18, he left numerous personal items at his mother's house. When he returned for them, he found many items, including the treasure map from

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2564. FBI’s Lost D.B. Cooper Evidence-In 1998, the FBI attempted to extract DNA from cigarette butts smoked in 1971 by the unidentified airline hijacker known as D.B. Cooper. They discovered, however, that the Las Vegas field office had destroyed the butts while in their custody.

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2565. Stevenson's Cocaine-Fueled Writing-Robert Louis Stevenson wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) during a six-day cocaine binge. His wife, Fanny, remarked:

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2566. 2024 Los Angeles Heist Mystery-On Easter Sunday of 2024, someone accessed the GardaWorld cash storage facility in Sylmar and stole $30 million in what is considered the largest heist in Los Angeles history. The culprit managed to breach the facility and disappear with the loot without anyone noticing until the next day.

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2567. Wesley Carrington Finds Roman Gold Treasure-In 2012, a British man named Wesley Carrington bought a metal detector and, within 20 minutes, found gold from the Roman Age worth £100,000 in the local woods.

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2568. Dean Karnazes' Incredible Endurance Run-Dean Karnazes holds the record for the longest non-stop run, having run 350 miles (560 km) in 80 hours and 44 minutes in 2005. Karnazes has a physiological advantage in that he doesn't seem to have a lactate threshold, allowing him to run such distances without sleep.

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2569. Arm and Hammer's Baking Soda Connection-Arm and Hammer, a businessman, was one of the owners of the Arm & Hammer baking soda brand. It's fascinating to note that the brand existed 30 years prior to Hammer's birth.

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2570. Mud Daubers' Deadly Plane Obstructions-Mud Daubers is a type of usually non-aggressive wasp that is believed to have caused at least two fatal plane crashes. In 1996, these wasps obstructed the pitot tubes of an aircraft, resulting in a crash that claimed the lives of all those on board.

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37 COMMENTS

  1. Would you mind if I started to post these facts on iFunny? I really think people would love them and I would of course credit and link your website.

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  2. Your page (re)numbering makes it almost impossible to find something on your site. The search option doesn’t seem very helpful.. I tried to search for Harris Rosen or Fact #62 after seeing it on Bored Panda, but had to do a brute force search to find this page…

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  3. I just went through all the facts pages. A few things I’ve noticed:
    1. #451-#470 (pgs 46 & 47) have images that are broken.
    2. #841-#1140 (pgs 85-114) are complete duplicates of earlier pages.

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    • Thank you for your valuable feedback. Last night we implemented a new page numbering system for our fact cards. I really messed up with facts #451-#470 which I have fixed now. I have fixed the other problem too.

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  4. Just stumbled onto your site via an Imgur post. Cool stuff.

    Re. one of the citations above: “The oldest D20 dice was uncovered in Egypt…”

    One “die,” many “dice.” The headline in the source given had it right; “Ancient d20 die emerges from the ashes of time.”

    Credibility is always enhanced by proper grammar.

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  5. I really enjoy your site. I visit it regularly at this period of my life to use up time, while entertaining myself, and increase my awareness of life through the amazing insights into stories behind what we often overlook. It is almost therapeutic I would think! For one thing, I feel grateful not to be one of the warped personalities you often report on, but on the other hand, I feel sorry for the suffering that is really behind so many people you note through our shared history, who have the apparency of many successes, but are in fact imperfect and suffering souls like all of us, on the road to something better we hope eh?

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    • History gives us an opportunity to look into the mistake our ancestors made, but also the feats they achieved. The lives they suffered, so that the future generations could have the freedom. I am happy to have been part of such an important part of your life, Stuart.

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  6. I’m sure it’s like asking a magician how his tricks are done, but I would love to know the workings of the research you have to go through to find/verify everything I’ve read on your site. To say they are entertaining would be an insult. I read several pages daily. I have found them to be fascinating, educational, informative, and downright important.

    When I was a child and went on long road trips with my parents, my Mom would would bring a box of Trivial Pursuit cards to read and ask questions to pass the time for everyone in the car…My Wife now reads these to our kids on our vacations.

    Do you take fact submissions, or do you rely on your own people to research and present them to your team/site? The only thing I can say about your site, is some click ads could be modified or even done away with. Political opinion polls, etc…I would sooner see and ad for shaving cream that some of those useless and probably biased ads (not you, just the people conducting them) But, I love what you do and am so glad that your site exists!

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    • Thank you Ryan. It’s the readers like you who keep us going. It gives us immense pleasure to know that you love reading facts on our site. We do take submissions. About 10% of our facts come from submissions. You too can submit facts by filling out this form Contact Us. The ads are what keeps the servers running. We don’t take any donations, use patreon or sell merch on our site so ads are how we generate income. Though, we will take your advice to tone down the ads (we can’t really see what kind of ad our readers see as it’s decided by Google).

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  7. 1454: She wasn’t found “shortly” after, which might imply that 911 had tried to help and just didn’t arrive in time; she was found HOURS after.

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  8. Each of these pages of facts should have its own page for commenting instead of many fact pages and only one place to comment. I’d also delete my post about each fact having its own page since the aforementioned idea is better, but I can’t.

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  9. I love this website I use it all the time and it allows me to attain info that I have been able to use irl all the time. Keep up the great work!

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  10. Also Rickinator for 610 killing bears is not a good thing due to most species of bears being endangered it is just a fact/statistic

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  11. Your fact card is WRONG! You state Queen Elizabeth II is related to George Washington (which is correct), however, then you all say “Their last living common ancestor is Augustine Warner, Sr. who died in XX.”

    That’s incorrect! i am related to both Col. Augustine Warner, Sr. and George Washington and I’m very much alive as are my family members and 1 uncle and his 2 sons.

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