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6761. Teen Dies Playing Collision Sport-In 2025, a teenager in New Zealand died while playing Run It Straight, a dangerous collision sport. The game involves a ball carrier and a tackler sprinting head-on into each other without protective gear, generating impacts more than five times stronger than a rugby tackle. Branded as

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6762. Mitrokhin Archive Exposes KGB Secrets-In 1992, Vasili Mitrokhin, the KGB's chief archivist, defected to the West carrying 25,000 pages of handwritten notes. His records detailed five decades of Soviet intelligence operations around the globe, exposing espionage tactics, assassinations, and influence campaigns. The trove, known as the Mitrokhin Archive, became one of the most important intelligence leaks of the 20th century.

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6763. EA Games Frees Accessibility Patents-Electronic Arts (EA Games) owns more than 30 patents for accessibility technology in video games. In 2021, the company pledged not to enforce these patents, making them freely available to other developers. The initiative aims to ensure features such as adaptive controllers, customizable visuals, and sound cues remain widely accessible to players with disabilities.

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6764. JFK Survived Pre-Inaugural Bomb Plot-In December 1960, weeks after his election, President-elect John F. Kennedy narrowly avoided an assassination attempt. Richard Paul Pavlick, a retired postal worker angered by Kennedy's Catholic faith, planned to drive a car filled with explosives into his vehicle. Pavlick backed down at the last moment because Kennedy was with his wife, Jackie, and their children, and he would rather not harm them.

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6765. Catullus Wrote Obscene Ancient Poem-The Roman poet Catullus wrote Carmen 16 in the 1st century BCE, a poem so obscene that it shocked readers for nearly two millennia. Its opening line,

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6766. Banks Use Exploding Dye Packs-Banks defend against robberies using dye packs hidden inside stacks of bills at teller stations. The packs remain unarmed while resting on a magnetic plate but activate when removed. Once a robber carries the money past a transmitter at the door, the dye pack explodes, reaching temperatures of about 400°F, and staining the cash with permanent ink.

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6767. Mongol Empire Ruled Quarter of World-The Mongol Empire, founded by Genghis Khan in 1206, became the largest contiguous land empire in history. At its peak, it stretched across much of Asia and into Europe, controlling nearly a quarter of the world's population. Despite its size, the empire fragmented quickly and lasted only about 150 years before splintering into smaller khanates.

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6768. Brain's Default Mode Network Explained-Neuroscientists have identified a

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6769. Progress and Poverty Shaped Economics-Henry George's 1879 book Progress and Poverty became one of the most widely read works of economics in history. At its peak, it ranked second only to the Bible in global readership and earned praise from figures such as Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein, and Leo Tolstoy. Though largely forgotten today, the book shaped debates on land reform and inspired the

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6770. Bone Wars Fueled Dinosaur Discoveries-In the late 1800s, rival paleontologists Edward Drinker Cope and Othniel Charles Marsh waged a bitter feud known as the Bone Wars. Their competition to discover and name more dinosaurs led to bribery, theft, and even the destruction of dig sites to prevent the other from claiming fossils. Despite the sabotage, they still managed to describe and name over 130 new species, laying the foundation for modern paleontology.

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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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