Fact Cards

4431. Mustache Promise Broken-During the production of Superman (1978), Gene Hackman initially refused to shave his mustache, only agreeing to do so when director Richard Donner promised to do the same. After Hackman had his mustache shaved, he approached Donner to fulfill his promise, but Donner just tore off his fake moustache instead.

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4432. Church of One Tree-The Church of One Tree in Santa Rosa, California, was built entirely from lumber harvested from a single redwood tree. The tree used was 275 feet tall and 18 feet in diameter, producing 78,000 board feet of lumber.

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4433. Messi's Napkin Contract-The first contract for legendary footballer Lionel Messi was written on a restaurant napkin during a meeting with FC Barcelona executives, and it is now held in a safe at the Credit Andorra bank.

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4434. Wonka's Sweet Deal-The Quaker Oats Company financed the original Willy Wonka movie in exchange for the right to make Wonka brand candy bars.

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4435. Fossilization Odds-Fossilization is so unlikely that scientists estimate that less than one-tenth of 1% of all the animal species that have ever lived have become fossils.

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4436. Gorilla Pilot Prank-The test pilot for the first fighter jet would fly dressed as a gorilla in a hat, allowing US Air Force psychologists to trick other pilots into thinking they hadn't witnessed a

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4437. Cricketer Dean Jones' Illness-Australian cricketer Dean Jones played a match in India in 1986 while severely ill. Due to the extreme heat, he vomited and urinated several times. Jones lost 7 kgs during the match and has no memory of the game. Despite this, he scored 210 runs, which is considered one of the best performances ever.

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4438. Comic Caption Mix-Up-In the early 1980s, a newspaper accidentally switched the captions for Dennis the Menace and The Far Side comics twice. While some people found it humorous, others found the captioning to be deeply disturbing, and the newspaper apologized for the errors.

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4439. Canadian Soccer Scandal-Match fixing became so rampant in Canadian soccer that one pro match in 2015 ended early after the home team's attempts to score an own-goal were repeatedly thwarted by the away team.

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4440. Johnny Tightlips Origin-Johnny Tightlips from The Simpsons is a reference to Frank

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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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