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6891. Mum Bet (Elizabeth Freeman) Lawsuit-In 1780, an enslaved woman named Mum Bet in Massachusetts overheard a reading of the new state constitution declaring that

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6892. Military Working Dogs' Rank Protocol-In the U.S., when a handler on the rank of E-3 to E-5 is paired with a military working dog (MWD), the dog is usually given the status of a non-commissioned officer to outrank or match the handler in order to ensure proper respect.

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6893. Michael Caine Long-Lost Half-Brother-After his mother, Ellen Burchell, died in 1989, Michael Caine received a tip from reporters investigating mental hospitals that a patient at Cane Hill in Croydon claimed Caine's older brother was there. Caine visited, confirmed the man was David Burchell, and staff said his mother had secretly visited every Monday for nearly five decades, and no one in his family knew about him. He pledged support, met David at last, and later learned David died 18 months after their first meeting.

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6894. South Korea StarCraft Marathon Death-In 2005, a 28-year-old man identified only as Lee played StarCraft almost nonstop for about 50 hours at an internet cafe in South Korea. Police said he took only brief breaks, ate little, and then collapsed; authorities presumed heart failure from exhaustion. He died shortly after, and local reports noted he had recently quit his job to play more games.

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6895. Ryanair Nut Allergy Incident 2014-In 2014, on a Ryanair flight to London, the crew warned passengers three times not to eat nuts because 4-year-old Fae Platten had a severe allergy. A man four rows away opened a packet anyway, and within 20 minutes, Fae went into anaphylactic shock, briefly stopped breathing, and was revived with an epinephrine injection before being taken to the hospital. Ryanair banned the passenger from its flights for two years.

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6896. Starbucks Gift Card/App Float-By 2025, Starbucks held about $1.85 billion in prepaid balances on its app and gift cards as customers loaded money before buying anything. In 2024, the company reported roughly $207 million in breakage revenue from funds that customers never redeemed, turning stored value into income.

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6897. Leonardo DiCaprio 2005 Bottle Attack-In 2005 at a party hosted by Rick Salomon in Hollywood, a 40-year-old woman named Aretha Wilson slashed Leonardo DiCaprio's face and neck with a broken bottle after mistaking him for a former boyfriend, injuries that required 17 stitches. Wilson fled to Canada and was extradited to the United States to face charges. In December 2010, she pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon and received a two-year prison sentence.

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6898. Dave Givens 186-Mile Commute-In April 2006, auto firm Midas named Cisco electrical engineer Dave Givens the winner of America's longest everyday commute after he logged a 372-mile roundtrip from his horse ranch near Yosemite to San Jose, a routine he had kept since 1989. He left at 4:30 a.m., drove 186 miles each way, and relied on XM radio, audiobooks, and more than 30 cups of coffee a day to endure the trip. Midas awarded him $10,000 in gas and maintenance, and Givens said the scenic ranch life made the grind worth it.

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6899. Sainte-Croix Hospital Quebec Bench Birth-On March 12, 2024, a pregnant woman arrived at Sainte-Croix Hospital in Quebec and found the main doors locked overnight, not realizing emergency access was through another entrance. Staff later heard noises outside and discovered that she had given birth on a bench. The health authority removed a private security guard for failing to help, and the hospital said it would improve door signage and remind staff to explain night access points.

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6900. United States ADHD Medication Share-By 2003, a Health Affairs analysis found that the United States, with less than 5% of the world's population, accounted for 83.1% of the global ADHD medication market. A 2018 review of U.S. stimulant use echoed the same figure when discussing America's disproportionate share of ADHD medication volume.

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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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