Fact Cards

4851. James Cameron's Titanic Sacrifice-Director James Cameron voluntarily gave up his salary and percentage share of Titanic's income when the film's budget exceeded his original estimate. It inflated from $100 million to $120 million and then to $200 million. He wanted to ensure the studio executives didn't think he had misled them to get the movie made.

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4852. Rogue Waves: Myth or Reality?-Scientists once dismissed massive rogue waves as a sailors' myth. However, an 84-foot wave hit the Gorm oil platform in the central North Sea in 1984, proving their existence. Since then, laboratories have mathematically validated and simulated this phenomenon and even confirmed the existence of rogue holes in the ocean.

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4853. Surviving California Wildfires in a Pool-In 2017, a Santa Rosa couple, John and Jan Pascoe, survived the California wildfire by jumping into their neighbor's pool and staying submerged for six hours. They only surfaced for air, shielding their faces from falling embers with wet t-shirts each time they came up.

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4854. Bats: Arguing Creatures Revealed-In 2016, researchers at Tel Aviv University in Israel used machine learning to find out what fruit bats were talking about with one another. Surprisingly, they found out that bats mainly argue with one another.

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4855. Prince Harry's Ill-Fated Tunnel Drive-In 2007, during a trip to Paris, Prince Harry had his driver speed through the same tunnel where his mother, Princess Diana, died. He hoped this would bring him closure, but he later described the experience as ill-conceived, saying it only brought him more pain.

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4856. Carlos Yulo's Surprising Olympic Rewards-After Filipino gymnast Carlos Yulo won double gold at the Paris Olympics in 2024, companies eager for free publicity rewarded him with a fully furnished three-bedroom home worth $552,802, a lifetime supply of buffets, unlimited phone cases, and complimentary endoscopic procedures for when he turns 45.

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4857. George Harrison's Widow Sues Doctor-After George Harrison died from lung cancer, his widow sued a doctor at the hospital where he received radiation therapy. She alleged that the doctor forced Harrison to listen to his son play guitar and even autograph it while Harrison lacked mental faculties.

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4858. Edison Jr. and Snake Oil Sales-Thomas Edison Jr., the son of Thomas Edison, aspired to become an inventor. However, lacking his father's talent, he turned to selling snake oil products, marketing them as

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4859. Fatal Familial Insomnia: A 200-Year Mystery-An anonymous family in Venice, Italy has endured a rare disorder known as fatal familial insomnia for more than 200 years. Many family members died from this condition, which prevents them from sleeping until they die.

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4860. Teenage Pregnancy Decline in America-More than half of the decline in America's total fertility rate is attributed to the sharp decrease in teenage pregnancies. Women under 19 now rarely have children.

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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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