Fact Cards

5731. Outlet Stores Sell Lower Quality-Most outlet stores don’t sell overstock from regular retail locations—instead, they offer cheaper, lower-quality versions made specifically for outlets. Moreover, the “compare at” prices and massive discounts are often deceptive. You think you're getting a deal, but the product is entirely different.

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5732. McDonald's Drive-Thru Born from Soldiers-In 1975, McDonald’s opened its first drive-thru to serve soldiers stationed at Fort Huachuca in Arizona. At the time, military regulations prohibited soldiers from leaving their vehicles while in uniform when off-post.

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5733. Congressman Killed Investigating Jonestown-In 1978, U.S. House of Representative Leo Ryan traveled to Guyana to investigate reports that Jim Jones was holding people against their will at the Peoples Temple Jonestown settlement. As Ryan and his team attempted to leave, they were shot and killed.

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5734. Measles Causes Immune Amnesia-A measles infection causes “immune amnesia,” which makes the immune system forget how to fight off previously known pathogens—effectively erasing immunity gained from earlier infections or vaccinations.

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5735. Born in the U.S.A. Misinterpreted-Bruce Springsteen’s hit song Born in the U.S.A. is widely misunderstood; rather than patriotic, it sharply criticizes the U.S. government's treatment of Vietnam War veterans.

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5736. Stork's Annual Journey for Love-From 2001 to 2021, a stork named Klepetan flew annually from South Africa to Croatia to reunite with his mate, Malena, who couldn’t fly due to a gunshot injury. Each year, Klepetan built her nests, hunted for food, and raised their chicks. Malena passed away in 2021 due to old age.

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5737. Young Bach's Violent Student Clash-At just 18, German composer J.S. Bach taught unruly older students and frequently clashed with them. After calling one a “nanny goat bassoonist,” the student retaliated by calling him a “dirty dog” and striking him with a stick. Bach drew his sword and pierced the student’s jacket, stopping only when bystanders intervened.

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5738. Instagram Doppelgänger Murder Plot-In 2022, a German-Iraqi woman named Sharaban K searched Instagram for women who resembled her. She eventually lured Khadidja O, a woman of Algerian origin, with a fake beauty treatment offer at her salon. Sharaban then murdered her in a shocking attempt to fake her own death. However, authorities quickly arrested her after spotting her casually eating pizza at a nearby pizzeria with her co-conspirator.

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5739. Lover Hid in Attic for Years-Walburga Oesterreich, a 19th-century American housewife married to wealthy textile manufacturer Fred William Oesterreich, gained infamy for secretly hiding her lover in the attic for over a decade. Eventually, the hidden man emerged—only to murder her husband.

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5740. Airplanes Painted White for Efficiency-Most airplanes are painted white because it reflects sunlight, keeps the aircraft cooler, and reduces the need for air conditioning—ultimately saving fuel.

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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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