Fact Cards

6131. Potatoes Test Boeing Wi-Fi-Boeing once filled an airplane with potatoes to test its in-flight Wi-Fi. Potatoes effectively mimic how humans absorb and reflect wireless signals.

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6132. Ledger Declines Hosting Oscars-In 2007, Heath Ledger refused to host the Oscars because they requested he mock the relationship he portrayed with Jake Gyllenhaal in

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6133. Singapore's 1967 Mass Panic-In 1967, Singapore experienced a mass panic over shrinking genitals, as hundreds of men rushed to hospitals convinced their penises were retracting into their bodies due to 'genital retraction syndrome.' The outbreak was later attributed to cultural beliefs and sensational media coverage, with no medical basis found for the perceived symptoms.

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6134. Rookie Journalist Breaks WWII News-The first journalist to report the outbreak of the Second World War was a rookie British reporter in her first week. Clare Hollingworth, working for The Daily Telegraph in 1939, spotted a hidden mass of German troops and tanks along the Polish border and phoned in the scoop by holding the telephone out the window so her editor could hear the invasion firsthand. Despite initial doubts, her report quickly gained confirmation, establishing it as one of the most significant scoops in the history of war reporting.

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6135. Man Survives Air Hose Accident-In 2011, Steven McCormack from New Zealand survived a workplace accident in which he fell onto a high-pressure air hose that pierced his left buttock, forcing air into his body at 100 psi and inflating him to nearly twice his size. The air separated fat from muscle and compressed his heart, but he survived after coworkers quickly shut off the valve and doctors safely released the trapped air.

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6136. Podber Shoots Warhol's Art-In 1964, performance artist Dorothy Podber asked to

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6137. Saudia Flight 163 Tragedy-Saudia Flight 163 safely landed in Riyadh in 1980 after a fire broke out in the cargo hold shortly after takeoff from Karachi en route to Jeddah. The Lockheed L-1011 TriStar landed successfully, but the crew failed to evacuate the aircraft, and all 301 passengers and crew died of smoke inhalation before rescue teams could open the doors. Experts believe that a passenger's stove or fuel container in the luggage caused the fire.

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6138. Nobel Laureates Embrace Arts-Research indicates that Nobel Prize-winning scientists are approximately 25 times more likely to engage in singing, dancing, or acting than the average scientist. They are also 17 times more likely to create visual art, 12 times more likely to write poetry, and 4 times more likely to be musicians.

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6139. Danish Palace's Cinderella Moment-In 2023, a teenager named Anne-Sophie attending the birthday gala for Danish Prince Christian at the palace intentionally left her shoe behind, hoping for a Cinderella-like ending. The palace later posted a photo of the heel on Instagram with the caption, 'Is it Cinderella who forgot her shoe last night?' Anne-Sophie eventually got it back after contacting the palace, though no royal romance followed.

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6140. Tubman Casting Controversy-A Hollywood executive once suggested casting Julia Roberts as Harriet Tubman for a biopic during a 1994 pitch meeting, reasoning,

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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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