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6431. Iceland's New Island Emerges-On June 5, 1967, a cook on a fishing boat south of Iceland spotted a column of smoke in the distance. As the crew moved closer to assist, they discovered a volcanic eruption in the middle of the ocean. This eruption lasted seven months, ultimately creating a new island named Surtsey.

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6432. Richard Jordan's Legal Battles-A Mississippi criminal named Richard Gerald Jordan was first sentenced to death in 1976, then again in 1977 and 1983, each time successfully appealing his sentence. He accepted a 1991 plea deal for life without possibility of parole. He then again re-appealed the deal, which was later ruled invalid and led to a 1998 resentencing to death. He was ultimately executed by lethal injection in 2025.

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6433. Wimbledon Embraces Technology-At the 2025 Wimbledon Championships in London, the tournament permanently replaced its 300 in-person line judges with Hawk-Eye electronic line-calling across all courts, ending a 147-year tradition. The decision, announced in 2024, was made to improve accuracy, consistency, and efficiency in officiating.

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6434. Jet Fuel Powers More Than Planes-The U.S. military uses jet fuel, known as JP-8, not only in aircraft but also in ground vehicles like tanks.

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6435. GPS Glitch Causes Global Chaos-In 2016, a GPS satellite decommissioning glitch caused 15 satellites to broadcast the wrong time by 13 microseconds. This seemingly minor error triggered thousands of system faults and alarms in telecom networks worldwide for over 12 hours.

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6436. Skoptsy: Misguided Religious Zeal-The Skoptsy, an 18th-century Russian Christian sect, were notorious for practicing castration, mastectomies, and female genital mutilation. Their belief stemmed from a mistranslation of a biblical command, interpreting

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6437. Tea Time with Catherine of Braganza-Catherine of Braganza, wife of England's King Charles II, popularized tea as a social drink in England. Coming from Portugal, where tea was already favored, the young queen's daily tea-sipping routine helped shift its status from a health tonic to a social beverage.

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6438. Kiwi Skin: A Health Boost-Eating kiwi skin is not only acceptable but also very healthy. It can aid in managing irritable bowel syndrome (IBS).

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6439. Solar Storms Impact Human Health-According to research by the Harvard School of Public Health, solar storms can affect our circadian rhythms, nervous systems, heart rate, blood pressure, mental health, and cognitive function. They may also increase adverse pregnancy outcomes, with some people being more sensitive than others.

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6440. British Delegates' Portrait Refusal-British delegates negotiating the Treaty of Paris, which recognized American independence, felt so ashamed of conceding to the colonials that they refused to pose for the portrait marking the occasion. This left the painting by famed artist Benjamin West unfinished.

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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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