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6801. Cartoon Ads Spark Boston Panic-In January 2007, Boston police mistook LED light boards of Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters for explosive devices. The guerrilla ads, placed under bridges and on buildings to promote the show, triggered a massive bomb-squad response. The scare cost the city an estimated $2 million and led to public backlash against both the marketers and Cartoon Network.

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6802. Sweden's Unethical Candy Trials-Between 1945 and 1955, researchers in Lund, Sweden, ran the Vipeholm experiments on patients with intellectual disabilities. Funded by both dentists and the sugar industry, subjects were fed large amounts of sweets, especially sticky toffee, to study how sugar caused tooth decay. The study conclusively linked sugar to cavities, but today they are condemned as grossly unethical human experimentation.

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6803. Dave Gahan's Twice-Abandoned Childhood-English band Depeche Mode's future frontman, Dave Gahan, was only six months old when his Malaysian father, Len, walked out on the family in England. Nine years later, Len reappeared and visited the Gahan household regularly for about a year, raising hopes of reconciliation. Then, without warning, he vanished again, this time permanently, leaving young Dave to grow up without him.

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6804. A Lone Marine's Last Stand-During the Battle of Tulagi on the Solomon Islands in August 1942, PFC Edward H. Ahrens of the U.S. Marines single-handedly faced a group of Japanese soldiers in close combat. The next morning, they found him mortally wounded, surrounded by 13 dead enemies, and credited him with at least three confirmed kills. Before dying, he told his commander,

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6805. A Roman Soldier Wants Beer-Around 100 CE, a Roman cavalry officer named Masculus wrote a letter from Vindolanda Fort in northern Britain to his commander, Flavius Cerialis. Alongside asking for the next day's orders for his men, he slipped in a polite request for more beer, since the garrison had already finished their supply. The tablet survived nearly 1,920 years, giving a rare glimpse into the daily life and thirst of Rome's frontier troops.

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6806. Cancer Charity's Carcinogenic Perfume-In 2011, breast cancer nonprofit Susan G. Komen for the Cure launched a fundraising perfume called Promise Me. Investigators soon found that it contained chemicals linked to cancer, including coumarin and toluene. Although the formula was later altered, the foundation chose not to pull existing bottles from store shelves.

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6807. POWs Outsmart Guards With

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6808. Grant's Groomsmen Surrender at Appomattox-When Ulysses S. Grant married Julia Dent in 1848, two of his groomsmen were fellow West Point graduates James Longstreet and Cadmus Wilcox. Seventeen years later, the three men met again, but on opposite sides of the American Civil War. At Appomattox in 1865, Generals Longstreet and Wilcox surrendered to their former friend, now General Grant, marking the war's end.

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6809. Reagan's Judges Still on Bench-Decades after Ronald Reagan left office, twelve federal judges he appointed in the 1980s are still serving on the U.S. bench (as of September 2025).

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6810. Short Drivers Face Airbag Danger-For drivers under 5'4

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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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