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6981. 1978 Chesterfield Canal Unplugged-In 1978, workers dredging the Chesterfield Canal in England lifted a heavy chain they found on the canal bed. As soon as they pulled it up, the entire section of canal drained away. The chain had been fixed to a wooden plug that engineers had installed about 200 years earlier to let them empty the canal for maintenance. Because no one remembered it was there, one routine cleanup accidentally uncorked the waterway.

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6982. 2011 Rapture Money Kept-In 2011, a Christian broadcaster named

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6983. Kilauea Lava Cricket Pioneer-On the island of Hawaii, a small insect called the Kilauea lava cricket is the first animal to show up on fresh, cooled lava flows from the island's volcanoes. It lives only on these new, barren lava fields, feeding and surviving in a place where almost nothing else can. Once vegetation takes over the lava field, this species disappears and is not seen anywhere else.

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6984. Avocado Oil Highest Smoke Point-Refined avocado oil has the highest smoke point of any cooking oil at about 271°C (520°F). By comparison, common canola oil starts to smoke around 204°C (400°F). Because it stays stable at much higher temperatures, avocado oil is especially useful for deep frying and other high-heat cooking. Cooks can heat it longer before it breaks down or smokes.

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6985. 1923 Quake Moved Sushi Indoors-Before the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, sushi in Japan was mostly sold as quick street food. The quake devastated Tokyo and caused land prices to fall, which suddenly made it affordable to open sit-down sushi restaurants, called sushi-ya. By the 1950s, eating sushi at restaurants had become the standard way to enjoy it.

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6986. Eliza Dushku Drew Prison Fans-The 1990s and early 2000s icon Eliza Dushku joined Buffy the Vampire Slayer as Faith, the darker, rebellious Slayer. Her tough, seductive portrayal struck a chord with male inmates watching the show. According to her, she was soon inundated with fan mail from prisoners.

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6987. Teen Hacker Shut Down NASA-In 1999, 15-year-old Jonathan James used his home computer to hack into NASA's systems. He accessed source code that NASA used to control parts of the International Space Station's life support environment. To investigate and fix the breach, NASA shut down affected computers for 21 days, a pause that cost thousands of dollars. U.S. authorities later identified James as the intruder and charged him as a juvenile.

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6988. German POW Kayak Escape Fails-In December 1944, 25 German prisoners of war at the Papago Park camp in Phoenix secretly built a collapsible kayak as part of an escape plan to reach Mexico. They broke out of the camp and headed for the nearby Gila River, expecting to paddle south to freedom. When they arrived, they found the riverbed completely dry in the Arizona desert. With no water route, their escape unraveled, and U.S. authorities rounded them up.

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6989. 2029 Asian Winter Games Neom-In October 2022, the Olympic Council of Asia awarded the 2029 Asian Winter Games to Neom, a planned city in Saudi Arabia's Tabuk Province. Neom does not yet exist as a finished city (as of October 2025), but Saudi Arabia pledged to build winter sports venues there, including facilities in its proposed Trojena mountain resort. The choice made Saudi Arabia the first Arab country to host the Asian Winter Games. The 2029 event is scheduled to take place once the futuristic city is constructed.

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6990. Turtles All the Way Down-The phrase

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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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