Fact Cards

4641. Boy Flies Without Security Clearance-In 2012, an 11-year-old boy named Liam Corcoran disappeared while shopping with his mother and managed to reach an airport. He passed through five security checks without a passport or boarding pass by blending in with a family. He successfully boarded a flight from Manchester to Rome alone, and no one discovered him until after takeoff.

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4642. Vietnam War Almost Canceled Arnold-Nickelodeon almost canceled Hey Arnold's Christmas episode because executives believed kids wouldn't care about its depiction of the Vietnam War. However, an executive changed her mind when her nine-year-old son watched a rough cut and asked,

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4643. Nintendo CEO Halves His Salary-In 2013, when the Wii U failed miserably, Nintendo's CEO Satoru Iwata voluntarily cut his own salary in half for six months instead of laying off his employees.

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4644. Jailed Over $16.35 Mandatory Tip-In 2009, authorities jailed two college students for refusing to pay a mandatory tip of $16.35 at a Pennsylvania restaurant, citing poor service. After the incident gained national attention, authorities dropped the charges. The case sparked a widespread debate over tipping and whether it should depend on service quality.

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4645. Grieving Man Kills Air Controller-In 2002, two planes collided over a German town due to erroneous air traffic instructions, killing all passengers and crew members. In 2004, a grieving man who had lost his family in the crash stabbed the responsible air traffic controller to death at his home.

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4646. Alexander's Army Drinking Tragedy-Alexander the Great had a Hindu guru who accompanied his army during their return to Persia. After the guru performed self-immolation, the army held a drinking contest in his honor. Tragically, 42 participants died from alcohol poisoning, including the winner, who consumed 13 liters of unmixed wine.

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4647. Roulette Cheat Wins €600,000-In the 1990s, a man named Gonzalo García-Pelayo gained an advantage in a Spanish casino by recording roulette wheel results and analyzing them using a computer. He predicted that certain numbers were more likely to appear and won €600,000. A legal case against him failed, with the court ruling that the casino should fix its faulty wheel.

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4648. Politician Frees 500 Slaves Heroically-American politician Robert Carter III, between 1791 and 1803, freed all 400-500 of his slaves. He later hired them back as workers and ensured their education. Despite his efforts, his family, neighbors, and the government tried to stop him, even attempting to tar and feather him. They eventually drove him from his home.

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4649. Actress Miranda Cosgrove's Tragic Stalker-In 2016, a man stalking iCarly actress Miranda Cosgrove fired shots at a woman in a car near her home, set himself on fire, and fatally shot himself in her yard. Two years earlier, Cosgrove had obtained a restraining order against a different stalker.

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4650. Japanese Flag Off-Center Until 1999-The red disc on the Japanese flag was located 1% off-center to the left until 1999.

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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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