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7251. Valerie Dachshund Survives 529 Days-In November 2023, a 10-pound mini dachshund named Valerie ran away during a camping trip to Kangaroo Island, a remote island in southern Australia, and then survived alone in the bush for 529 days. Her owners, Georgia Gardner and Josh Fishlock, searched and later relied on local reports and wildlife rescuers to track her across the island. In early 2025, rescuers finally began spotting her regularly and spent about two months trying to trap her. They eventually captured her alive and well and returned her to her owners, who took her back home after her year-and-a-half survival ordeal.

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7252. Frank Matthews Vanishes With Millions-Frank Matthews, a major American drug trafficker who built a nationwide heroin distribution empire, skipped bail in 1973 while facing federal charges and disappeared with an estimated $20 million. Authorities had arrested him and accused him of running a large-scale drug network that stretched across multiple U.S. cities. After he failed to appear in court, investigators traced some of his associates but never found Matthews himself. Decades later, he remains one of the most notorious fugitives in U.S. drug enforcement history, with no confirmed trace since his 1973 disappearance.

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7253. Pentagon Last Supper Defense Mergers-In 1993, near the end of the Cold War era, U.S. Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Deputy Defense Secretary William Perry hosted a dinner at the Pentagon that industry insiders later called the 'Last Supper.' They brought together the heads of major defense contractors and told them that steep post-Cold War budget cuts were coming and that the Pentagon expected them to consolidate if they wanted to survive. In the years after that dinner, a wave of mergers and acquisitions reduced the number of prime defense contractors from 51 to just 5.

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7254. Hiroshi Yamasaki Deserts After Nanking-A Japanese veterinary officer named Hiroshi Yamasaki deserted the army after he witnessed the Rape of Nanking and could not accept what he saw. Leaving military service behind, he chose to dedicate the rest of his life to humanitarian work instead of war. He opened a clinic that treated poor people and often refused to charge them for care.

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7255. Trachenberg Plan Avoids Napoleon Directly-Napoleon’s battlefield reputation grew so fearsome that the anti-French coalition drafted the Trachenberg Plan specifically to avoid facing him directly in combat. Instead of challenging Napoleon in a single decisive battle, the plan instructed allied armies to retreat or maneuver away whenever he personally took command. When he moved to one front, the coalition forces targeted his marshals and generals separately on other fronts, attacking them in isolation.

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7256. Chicago Parking Meters Privatization Windfall-In 2008, the City of Chicago leased all of its parking meters to a private investor group for 75 years in a deal worth about $1.15 billion. The city received the money up front and handed control of meter rates and revenues to Chicago Parking Meters LLC. By the early 2020s, audits showed that the private operators had already collected more than $2 billion from the meters, allowing them to recoup their investment and turn a profit with decades still left on the lease.

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7257. Dry Cleaning Uses Solvent Not Water-Dry cleaning is not actually dry at all, because it washes clothes with a liquid solvent instead of water. In a typical process, cleaners load garments into a machine that looks like a large washing machine and then circulate a chemical solvent through the fabric to dissolve oils and stains. Because it does not use water, this method helps garments keep their shape and avoid shrinking or warping in ways that regular washing can cause. After the solvent cycle, the machine removes the liquid, dries the clothes inside the drum, and returns them looking clean without ever going through a traditional water wash.

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7258. Walter Francis White Undercover Lynchings-Walter Francis White was a Black civil rights investigator in the Jim Crow era who had white skin, blond hair, and blue eyes, and he used that appearance to infiltrate white communities and document lynchings. He traveled to scenes of racial violence posing as a white man, listened to participants describe what they had done, and gathered details that outsiders could not safely obtain. He then reported those findings to expose the brutality of lynch mobs and the systems that protected them.

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7259. Nine Year Old Boards Vegas Flight-In 2013, a 9-year-old boy in Minnesota slipped past four security checkpoints at Minneapolis–St. Paul International Airport without raising suspicion and made his way onto a flight to Las Vegas. He had no identification, no boarding pass, and no parent or guardian with him, yet he still managed to board the plane. According to reports, he told authorities he was traveling to Las Vegas to see an online friend. Airline staff and security only discovered the breach after the flight was already in the air.

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7260. More Births To Fortysomething Mothers-Since 2023, the United States has recorded more births to women ages 40 and older than to teenage girls. The crossover point came in 2023, when women 40 and over gave birth more often than teens for the first time on record.

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  2. 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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  4. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  10. 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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  13. 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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  17. 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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  19. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  26. 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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