Fact Cards

6531. Marines Outsmart AI Surveillance-A squad of U.S. Marines in a DARPA Squad X drill managed to bypass an AI-powered security camera in the United States. The experiment, which took place as a controlled test in 2023, demonstrated the ease with which creative tactics could fool the system. Two marines evaded detection by somersaulting for 300 meters, another pair pretended to be a cardboard box, and one even disguised himself as a bush. The AI failed to detect any of them.

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6532. Flat Earthers' Antarctic Revelation-In 2024, a group of flat Earth YouTubers joined The Final Experiment expedition to Antarctica. There, they directly witnessed the 24-hour Antarctic sun, a phenomenon impossible under flat Earth models. The experience led at least one participant to publicly admit they were wrong and to leave the flat Earth community.

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6533. Weird Al and Prince's Encounter-Weird Al Yankovic never received permission from Prince to parody his songs. Before the American Music Awards, where they were seated in the same row, Prince's management sent Yankovic a telegram demanding he avoid eye contact with the artist.

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6534. ADHD and Intrusive Sleep Explained-Intrusive sleep, often seen in individuals with ADHD, occurs when they experience sudden drowsiness or fall asleep after losing interest in a task. This happens because the brain quickly disengages from the uninteresting activity, leading to a rapid drop in alertness.

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6535. Parkland Hero Controls Shooter's Rights-During the Parkland school shooting in Florida in 2018, student Anthony Borges sustained critical injuries while protecting his classmates with his body. In 2024, a judge granted Borges the exclusive rights to the name of shooter Nikolas Cruz, recognizing his role as a victim. This ruling prevents Cruz from giving interviews or signing deals with film producers or authors without Borges' permission.

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6536. Extinct Falkland Islands Wolf-The Falkland Islands wolf, also known as the warrah, was the islands' only native land mammal. It was so tame that it would approach humans without fear, even swimming out to greet arriving boats. Settlers hunted it to extinction by 1876 because it was too friendly to run away, making it the first canid species to become extinct in recorded history.

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6537. Fraternity Members Earn More-Studies in the United States have found that college graduates who joined fraternities often earn higher incomes later in life. This income boost comes despite the fact that fraternity members generally have lower grades compared to non-members. Researchers attribute the difference to networking, social capital, and access to career opportunities gained through fraternity connections.

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6538. Japanese Wives Manage Finances-In Japan, it is common for married women to fully control the couple's finances. Husbands typically hand over their monthly paychecks and receive an allowance from their wives.

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6539. Robert Patrick's Sobriety for T-1000-Before landing the role of T-1000 in

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6540. Cultural Differences in Conversation Pauses-English speakers often feel uncomfortable if a conversation pause lasts more than four seconds. In contrast, Japanese speakers are comfortable with pauses of up to eight seconds.

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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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