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7171. Pyongyang Metro Deep Cheap Subway-In Pyongyang, the capital of North Korea, residents ride a subway system that plunges about 360 feet underground, making the Pyongyang Metro one of the deepest in the world. Passengers pay only about half a US cent per ticket, making it one of the cheapest metro fares anywhere.

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7172. Prohibition Fake Rabbis Wine Racket-During Prohibition in the United States, bootleggers exploited a religious exemption that allowed rabbis to purchase 10 gallons of wine per congregant per year. Many bootleggers simply registered as rabbis on paper so they could legally secure large quantities of sacramental wine and divert it into the black market. Alarmed by the scandal, Jewish leaders petitioned the government to remove or tighten the exemption so their religion would no longer serve as cover for illegal alcohol sales.

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7173. Jose Bonilla Photographs Comet Fragments-In 1883, Mexican astronomer José Bonilla photographed more than 400 mysterious objects crossing the face of the Sun over the course of two days. On his images, the objects appeared as dark shapes passing between Earth and the solar disk, and they puzzled observers who did not know what they were seeing. Modern astrophysicists now believe he may have captured fragments of a massive comet that had broken apart in space. According to this interpretation, the comet and its debris narrowly missed Earth.

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7174. Canadian Firefighters Texas Pizza Mixup-In 2019, a Canadian fire department accidentally ordered 18 pizzas from a Texas pizza restaurant instead of their local pizzeria. Rather than cancelling the order, they asked the Texas shop to deliver the pizzas to first responders in San Antonio. The surprise delivery sparked a cross-border friendship between the Canadian department and their Texas counterparts. The story also inspired a Random Acts of Pizza campaign that encouraged people to send unexpected meals to emergency workers.

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7175. Second Sight Abandons Bionic Eyes-Second Sight, a company that built retinal implants to give blind patients a form of artificial vision, once implanted its bionic eye systems in people around the world. After the company ran into serious financial difficulties, it stopped supporting some of its devices and scaled back work on its earlier products. As time passed, patients found themselves living with failing and obsolete hardware inside their bodies, with no clear path to repairs or upgrades.

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7176. James Riley Sahara Enslavement Memoir-In 1815, U.S. ship captain James Riley wrecked his vessel off the Sahara and was captured, enslaved, and forced to march across the desert with almost no food or water. Riley survived the ordeal and later wrote a detailed eyewitness account of his suffering. Abraham Lincoln would later name Riley’s book as one of the most influential works of his life.

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7177. Mark Mothersbaugh Ridiculousness Theme Royalties-Devo cofounder Mark Mothersbaugh earns about 1 million dollars a year in royalties from MTV’s show Ridiculousness, which uses his band’s song “Uncontrollable Urge” as its theme. Every rerun of the series generates more payments for him. He has said that this theme song income now makes up the biggest portion of his earnings (as of Jan 2025).

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7178. Bird Droppings Replace Liquid Urine-Birds have no bladder, so they do not store or release liquid urine the way mammals do. Over time, they evolved to skip liquid pee altogether, saving weight that would otherwise go to carrying extra water. Instead, they eliminate their waste all at once in the form of a chalky white paste that people often see on sidewalks, cars, and windows. Each dropping combines what would be urine and feces into a single lightweight package.

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7179. John Quincy Adams Spares Assassin-One night at the White House, President John Quincy Adams faced a would-be assassin when George P. Todsen walked up intending to kill him. Instead of calling for force, Adams spoke with Todsen long enough to talk him out of the plan and defuse the confrontation. He then arranged a job for Todsen. Adams stayed in contact with him for the rest of Todsen’s life.

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7180. Sleep Prepares Brain For Tomorrow-While you are sleeping, your brain is getting ready for the next day by forming new pathways that help you learn and remember information. Studies show that a solid night’s sleep improves learning and problem-solving skills and helps you pay attention, make decisions, and be creative.

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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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