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6781. Coin Shaving Once Punishable by Death-During the 18th century,

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6782. Mufflers and Silencers Same Invention-Car mufflers and firearm silencers rely on the same principle of dissipating explosive gases through chambers and baffles to reduce noise. Both inventions came from Hiram Percy Maxim, an American inventor and son of the creator of the Maxim gun. He patented the firearm suppressor in 1909 and soon after adapted the same technology to design mufflers for automobiles.

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6783. Haiku Used to Fight Spam-In the early 2000s, companies like AOL partnered with Habeas, a firm that embedded short haiku poems into email headers as a digital authenticity marker. The poems acted as a form of copyright protection-if spammers copied them, Habeas could sue for copyright infringement instead of trying to fight on anti-spam laws alone. In one notable case, Habeas won a $100,000 judgment against a mass spammer who had illegally used its haiku.

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6784. Chris Cornell Composed Song Driving-Soundgarden frontman Chris Cornell composed the 1994 hit

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6785. Spencer Clark Put Himself on Currency-In 1866, Congress intended to honor explorer William Clark by placing his portrait on the five-cent note. However, due to a last-name mix-up, Treasury official Spencer M. Clark instead approved his own image for the bill. The controversy embarrassed lawmakers and directly led Congress to pass legislation banning the portraits of living people from appearing on U.S. currency.

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6786. Flies Addicted to Nicotine Smoke-Studies indicate that houseflies and fruit flies can develop addictive behaviors toward nicotine and cocaine. In households where residents smoke, flies have been observed altering their natural behaviors to seek out cigarette smoke, despite nicotine's extreme toxicity to insects.

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6787. London Markets Closing After Centuries-London's Billingsgate Fish Market and Smithfield Meat Market, both centuries-old institutions, will close permanently in 2028 (as of September 2025). The Corporation of London decided against relocating them to a new site in Dagenham, ending their long histories as centers of trade. Smithfield has operated since the 10th century, while Billingsgate dates back to the 16th century, making their closure the end of nearly a millennium of tradition.

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6788. Cesare Borgia's Violent Ambush Death-Cesare Borgia, the notorious Renaissance noble and son of Pope Alexander VI, met his end in 1507 while besieging a small castle in Navarre. Caught in heavy rain, he pursued a group of knights into an ambush where attackers stabbed him 25 times. The sheer number of wounds suggests he fought fiercely and singlehandedly against his assailants before falling, sealing the dramatic end of one of Italy's most infamous figures.

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6789. Gallagher Brothers' Watermelon Lawsuit-Comedian Leo Gallagher, famous for smashing watermelons with his

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6790. Spy Found Dead in Bag-In 2010, Gareth Williams, a Welsh mathematician working for British intelligence agency GCHQ on secondment to the UK Security Services, was found dead in his London flat. His body was locked inside a sports bag, with the keys to the padlock mysteriously placed inside the bag as well. Authorities first ruled the case

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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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