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7211. Japan 1614 Ban On Christianity-In the 16th and 17th centuries, after initially welcoming missionaries from Portugal, Japan’s shoguns banned Christianity because they viewed the growing faith as a threat to political control and social unity. In 1614, they issued a formal ban that destroyed churches, persecuted converts, and outlawed Christian worship across the country. Authorities then expelled foreign missionaries and enforced the prohibition, forcing Japanese Christians to practice in secret or abandon the faith altogether.

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7212. Researchers Hide Be Nice Instructions-Since the growth of AI, academic studies have begun appearing with hidden prompts aimed directly at automated peer review tools, including phrases like

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7213. Papua Cyclops Mountains Tree Shrimp-In 2023, scientists exploring the Cyclops Mountains of Papua discovered a new species of shrimp that lives on trees and in the forest soil high up the slopes. The tiny terrestrial shrimp, belonging to a lineage normally found on the seashore, uses its powerful hind legs to make long jumps between trunks when predators approach. Researchers watched it spring away and noted that it carries its eggs in pockets along its body, a strange land-based lifestyle for a creature most people expect to see underwater.

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7214. Adam Vinatieri Double 1000-Point Record-Adam Vinatieri, one of the NFL’s most durable placekickers, turned his long career into a scoring record that no one else has matched (as of December 2025). He is the only player in league history to score more than 1,000 points for two different teams, the New England Patriots and the Indianapolis Colts.

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7215. Harrison Ford Conversation Gay Character-When he was still an unknown actor, Harrison Ford played a minor character in Francis Ford Coppola's film The Conversation and quietly decided to portray the man as gay. Ford made this choice on his own and did not clear it in advance with Coppola or the production. He explained his intention to the director only when he arrived on set wearing a $900 flannel suit he had brought for the character.

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7216. Star Trek Borg Queen Origin-In early Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, the Borg appeared as a faceless hive mind with no single leader. When the film Star Trek: First Contact came out in 1996, the writers introduced the Borg Queen to give the story a central, recognizable villain. They believed audiences would respond better to a tangible antagonist than to an entirely leaderless collective, so the Queen became the voice and face of the Borg on screen.

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7217. 1907 Priest Condemns Teddy Bears-In 1907, Michael G. Esper, a Catholic priest in Michigan, denounced the newly popular teddy bears from his pulpit as

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7218. Bruce Li Bruce Lee Successor-Following Bruce Lee's death in 1973, producers hired Taiwanese martial artist Ho Chung Tao and billed him as Bruce Li as a possible successor in the wave of

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7219. B-36 Peacemaker 40-Hour Bomber-Developed in the 1940s, the B-36 Peacemaker strategic bomber flew with six propeller engines and four jet engines, giving it a range of about 10,000 miles and a service ceiling of 40,000 feet. Its huge wings, the longest wingspan of any combat aircraft, helped support that extraordinary load and endurance. With this power and lift, the B-36 could stay aloft for 40 hours straight without refueling, turning it into a long-range workhorse of early long-distance military aviation.

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7220. Greenpeace Calendar Prints Mafart Photo-For its 2015 calendar, Greenpeace USA unknowingly selected a wildlife photograph taken by Frenchman Alain Mafart, a former secret agent involved in the 1985 bombing of the Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior in Auckland. When staff later learned that the image’s creator had been one of the operatives responsible for the attack that killed photographer Fernando Pereira, they realized the grim connection. Greenpeace USA then decided to destroy the remaining copies of the calendar.

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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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