Fact Cards

5491. Forgotten Song, Huge Payday-Singer James Carter (also a former convict, musician, and shipping clerk) once received a $20,000 royalty check for a song featured in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, which he had recorded 40 years earlier but had completely forgotten.

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5492. 2014 Germany Football Victory-After Germany's 7-1 victory over Brazil in the 2014 World Cup, Pornhub had to issue a plea asking users to stop uploading match highlights to the site.

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5493. Roman Graffiti: Bad Reviews-Ancient Roman tourists visiting Egyptian tombs often left negative reviews in graffiti. Some complained that only the sarcophagus was interesting, while others were frustrated by their inability to read the hieroglyphs. Ironically, these criticisms later became valuable historical records.

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5494. Bald Men Killed for Gold-In 2017, five bald men were murdered in Mozambique because their killers believed that bald heads contained gold.

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5495. Surgeon Used Screwdriver Shaft-In 2006, a jury awarded $5.6 million to the family of a man whose surgeon implanted a screwdriver shaft into his spine after discovering that the two planned titanium rods were missing. The screwdriver later snapped, requiring three more back surgeries. The man died two years later.

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5496. Saudi Arabia’s First Movie-In 2018, Saudi Arabia lifted its 35-year ban on cinemas. The first movie screened publicly after the ban's removal was The Emoji Movie.

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5497. Titanic Split: Disbelieved for Decades-For 73 years, people did not believe Titanic survivors who claimed the ship split in half before sinking. One survivor even recalled people arguing with her about what she had seen. This skepticism persisted until 1985, when the wreckage was finally discovered in two pieces.

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5498. Lise Meitner’s Nobel Snub-The 1944 Nobel Prize for the discovery of nuclear fission was awarded solely to German physicist Otto Hahn, despite his collaboration with Lise Meitner, a Jewish-German scientist forced into exile. Meitner not only contributed significantly to the work but was also the first to use the term

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5499. Twins Ordered to Pay Support-A Brazilian judge ordered identical twin brothers to pay child support after DNA tests failed to determine which of them had fathered a child. Since both men refused to confess, the judge ruled that they were depriving the girl of her right to know her biological father.

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5500. Tolkien’s Tower Confusion-J.R.R. Tolkien disliked the title The Two Towers and repeatedly changed his mind about which towers it referred to. There are actually five towers relevant to the story.

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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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