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7231. Oscars Voters Must Watch Nominees-In April 2025, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced that Oscar voters must watch every nominated film in a category before they can cast a final-round ballot in that race. The Academy previously relied more on encouragement and an honor system, which critics said let some members vote based on reputation or buzz without seeing all the contenders. The new rule aims to push final voting toward completed viewing and reduce hype-driven ballots.

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7232. Young Americans Becoming Sexless-In the United States, the share of adults ages 18 to 29 who reported having no sex in the prior 12 months doubled between 2010 and 2024, based on analysis of the General Social Survey. In 2010, 12% of 18-to-29-year-olds said they had no sex in the past year, and by 2024 that figure rose to roughly 24%.

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7233. Mariah Carey Christmas Royalties Millions-In 2024, a published estimate put Mariah Carey’s yearly earnings from

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7234. David Bowie Twice Refuses Knighthood-British musician David Bowie declined an offer of a royal honor twice, including a knighthood, and openly questioned its purpose. In interviews, he said he did not know what the honor was for and stated that it was not what he had spent his life working for.

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7235. Nuremberg Charter Limits Crimes Definition-The Nuremberg Charter, drafted in 1945 for the Nuremberg Trials, defined

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7236. Microsoft Zune Awkward Squirting Feature-Squirting was what Microsoft called sharing MP3s via its Zune MP3 player, and CEO Steve Ballmer tried really hard to sell the feature, saying,

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7237. Builder AI Exposed Human Coders-An AI company called Builder.ai, also known as Engineer.ai, raised about $450 million from investors including Microsoft and SoftBank and reached a valuation of roughly $1.5 billion, but it actually relied on around 700 programmers in India to manually write code instead of using real artificial intelligence. Founded in 2016 and based in London, it marketed an AI assistant named Natasha that it claimed could build apps autonomously while human engineers did the work behind the scenes. In 2025, after a major creditor seized most of its cash and authorities began investigating its practices, Builder.ai filed for bankruptcy and laid off most of its staff.

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7238. Kazuki Takahashi Dies Rescuing Swimmers-On July 4, 2022, Kazuki Takahashi, the 60-year-old creator of Yu-Gi-Oh!, went into the water off a beach in Okinawa as a rip tide pulled a girl, her mother, and a U.S. soldier into danger. U.S. Army Maj. Robert Bourgeau, a scuba instructor at the site, fought the current to bring the girl and her mother into the shallows. During the rescue, witnesses saw Takahashi enter the rough water to help (unknown to the soldier), catching only brief glimpses of him before he disappeared beneath the waves. Two days later, the Japanese Coast Guard found his body.

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7239. Eminem Settles Nightclub Assault Lawsuit-In June 2000, outside a nightclub in Michigan, rapper Eminem reportedly saw a man named John Guerra kissing his then-wife in the parking lot and reacted by pulling out an unloaded gun and hitting Guerra in the face. Police arrested Eminem, and prosecutors later brought charges over the incident. In 2002, Eminem settled a civil lawsuit by paying Guerra $100,000 instead of taking the case to trial.

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7240. Raccoon Meat Thanksgiving Table Staple-Raccoon meat was once a staple on American Thanksgiving dinner tables, and, according to reports, you can still buy it in places like St. Louis today. People who eat it say raccoon tastes like a combination of chicken and suckling pig. Marvel actor Anthony Mackie openly endorses it and calls raccoon

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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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