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7161. IKEA Danish Names For Doormats-Swedish furniture giant IKEA builds its product names around Scandinavian languages, and it even folds old rivalries into that system. As a joke about the long-running rivalry between Sweden and Denmark, IKEA reserves Danish names for doormats and other items people walk on.

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7162. AWS S3 Typo Breaks Internet-On February 28, 2017, an Amazon engineer tried to troubleshoot the AWS S3 billing system and entered a command to take a few servers offline. Because of a simple typo, the command instead took down far more servers than intended. The mistake made around 150,000 websites and apps that relied on S3 unavailable. Many of those services stayed down for roughly half a day while Amazon worked to bring everything back online.

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7163. Argentine Ant Global Mega Colony-In modern times, Argentine ants have formed a vast

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7164. Nogaret Automaton Prefigures Frankenstein Story-28 years before Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein, French author François-Félix Nogaret published Le Miroir, a story about an automaton brought to life. In the tale, a doctor named Wak-wik-vauk-on-son-frankénsteïn creates and animates this artificial being. The plot centers on a man-made creature given life by a learned scientist, a setup that closely mirrors the later Frankenstein theme.

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7165. Franz Ferdinand Unpopular Reform Plans-As heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne, Franz Ferdinand was widely disliked across the empire. His marriage to a woman without sufficient royal blood broke with Habsburg tradition and offended conservative aristocrats. Politically, he wanted to restructure the dual monarchy into three kingdoms and give Slavs equal status, which alarmed Austrian conservatives and angered many Hungarians. Pan-Slavic nationalists also rejected his plan, leaving him distrusted by nearly every major faction in the empire.

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7166. Prince Khaemweset Restores Ancient Monuments-Prince Khaemweset, the fourth son of Pharaoh Rameses II (1303–1213 BC), lived in New Kingdom Egypt but turned his attention to monuments that were already ancient in his own time. He spent much of his life locating and restoring old buildings and tombs, including a statue of Prince Kawab from around 2600–2570 BC. In his restorations, he honored earlier rulers and princes by preserving their names and monuments instead of replacing them. Because of this lifelong work on Egypt’s antiquities, historians often regard Khaemweset as the first Egyptologist.

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7167. UAE Workforce Dominated By Migrants-As of 2025, citizens make up only about 11 percent of the total population in the United Arab Emirates, while non-citizen migrants account for the remaining 88 percent. These migrants are not just numerous; they form about 90 percent of the country's workforce.

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7168. Ol Dirty Bastard Rambling ICP-Insane Clown Posse paid rapper Ol Dirty Bastard $30,000 to record a guest verse for one of their songs. When he delivered his part, it turned out to be mostly incoherent ramblings about

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7169. Bagdad Arizona Copper Company Town-Bagdad, Arizona, is a remote copper mining town where Freeport-McMoRan, a major mining company, still owns all the housing and commercial buildings, making it one of the last true company towns in the United States. Over the twentieth century, most American company towns disappeared as industries shut down or companies sold homes and businesses to residents, turning those places into ordinary municipalities. Bagdad remained under company control because Freeport-McMoRan kept running the big open-pit copper mine and continued to hold the town’s property as part of its operations.

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7170. Ancient Danish Chewing Gum DNA-In southern Denmark, archaeologists have found a nearly 6,000-year-old piece of chewing gum made from birch pitch at a Stone Age site. When scientists analyzed the gum, they recovered the DNA of the person who chewed it and identified her as a young hunter-gatherer girl with dark skin, black hair, and blue eyes. The sample also preserved traces of her last meal, which included hazelnuts and duck.

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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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