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7191. Mazda Furai Burns On TopGear-In 2008, the only Mazda Furai ever built, a striking concept race car, took part in a Top Gear photo session in the United Kingdom. During the shoot, the car caught fire and burned so severely that Mazda later confirmed it had been destroyed. The whereabouts of the Furai’s remains have never been made public, leaving its charred fate largely hidden from fans and the media.

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7192. Asafoetida Devil Dung Indian Spice-Asafoetida is a strong-smelling resin used as a spice in Indian cooking, known in English as

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7193. Drake Passage 800-Shipwreck Graveyard-The Drake Passage has been described as having some of the roughest seas in the world, with about 20,000 sailors lost and more than 800 shipwrecks scattered through its waters between Cape Horn and Antarctica. Through this narrow bottleneck, an immense volume of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current surges every second, driving fierce currents and waves that can reach extreme heights. Those relentless conditions, where the Atlantic and Pacific oceans collide in heavy seas, have made the Drake Passage a legendary maritime hazard whose wrecks and death toll still define its fearsome reputation among sailors.

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7194. William Conqueror Harrying Northern England-The Harrying of the North was a brutal military campaign that William the Conqueror ordered in 1069–1070 to crush rebellions in northern England after his 1066 conquest. In response to repeated uprisings and support for rival claimants, he sent Norman forces to burn villages, destroy crops, and slaughter livestock across Yorkshire and beyond, creating a deliberate famine. Contemporary chroniclers reported that these scorched earth tactics killed or displaced a huge share of the local population, with later estimates suggesting up to 75 percent in some areas. The devastation left large parts of northern England depopulated for years, a legacy archaeologists and historians still trace in the region’s records and landscape.

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7195. Sarpa Salpa Hallucinogenic Dream Fish-There are hallucinogenic fish whose consumption can trigger vivid hallucinations, with some trips documented to last several days. Doctors call this condition ichthyoallyeinotoxism, and it most famously involves species like Sarpa salpa, a sea bream known in Arabic as

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7196. Rolf Harris Kids Safety Film-In 1985, Australian entertainer Rolf Harris presented a 20-minute educational short film for children called

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7197. Eamon Versus Fake Ex Frankee-After

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7198. Andean Guinea Pigs Originally Food-Guinea pigs were originally domesticated as a source of food, not as cute household pets. In the Andean region of South America, people kept and bred them specifically for their meat, which became a traditional part of local diets.

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7199. Clerk Error Stalls Delphi Murders-The murders of teenagers Abigail Williams and Liberty German in Delphi, Indiana, went unsolved for years after a clerk accidentally marked one of the suspects as cleared. In a tip filed three days after the 2017 killings, Richard Allen told authorities he had been on the Monon High Bridge Trail the day the girls disappeared, but his last name was recorded incorrectly, and the report was misfiled as resolved. Years later, a volunteer file clerk discovered the error and brought the forgotten tip to investigators, prompting a fresh review that led to Allen’s arrest in October 2022 and finally broke open the long-running case.

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7200. DDT Barrels Off Santa Catalina-On the seabed between Santa Catalina Island and mainland California, scientists have found thousands of barrels containing the toxic pesticide DDT dumped decades ago. Surveys using sonar and deep-sea cameras have revealed a wide stretch of the seafloor littered with corroding containers, some leaking contamination into the surrounding sediment and water. Researchers have reported unusually high concentrations of DDT-related compounds in local marine life.

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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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