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7291. Overnight Orthokeratology Lenses Reshape Vision-Orthokeratology uses specially designed rigid contact lenses that you wear only while you sleep to reshape the cornea gently. By flattening the corneal surface overnight, these lenses temporarily correct refractive errors so you can see more clearly during the day without glasses or daytime contacts. The effect is reversible, so you have to keep wearing the lenses regularly at night to maintain clear vision.

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7292. Ise Shrine Rebuilt Every Generation-In Ise, Japan, the most sacred shrine in the Shinto religion is not preserved as an ancient structure but torn down and rebuilt on a neighboring site every 20 years. For more than a thousand years, priests, carpenters, and artisans have followed this cycle, dismantling the old buildings and constructing identical new ones with fresh wood. The ritual renewal keeps the shrine perpetually young while preserving age-old craftsmanship and religious tradition.

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7293. Pentagon Shreds Retired F 14s-A year after the F-14 Tomcat was withdrawn from U.S. Navy service in 2006, the Pentagon ordered every remaining aircraft to be shredded rather than sold or preserved. Officials feared that any surviving frames or spare parts might end up in Iran, the only other operator of the F-14 since the United States sold the jets to the Shah in the 1970s. To close that supply line, workers dismantled and destroyed stored Tomcats in U.S. boneyards piece by piece.

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7294. Dick Van Dyke’s Hidden Birthday-At 18, actor Dick Van Dyke learned that the March birthday he had celebrated his whole life was a lie and that he had actually been born in December 1925. His parents had quietly shifted the date to hide that he was conceived out of wedlock and to avoid the stigma attached to a

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7295. Winston Churchill’s Lifelong Cigar Habit-In 1895, a 21-year-old Winston Churchill spent several months in Cuba and picked up a cigar-smoking habit, which he believed steadied his nerves. From then on, he smoked 8 to 10 cigars a day and kept that routine for nearly seven decades, right up until his death at 90. Throughout his life, he stayed loyal to two Cuban brands, Romeo y Julieta and La Aroma de Cuba, and they became as much a part of his image as the bowler hat and bulldog stance.

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7296. Dolly Sinatra’s Rigged Slot Machine-When Frank Sinatra performed in Las Vegas, his mother, Dolly Sinatra, liked to spend her visits gambling in the casino. Staff knew she hated to lose at the slot machines, so they arranged a special one just for her. They rigged the machine so that whenever she played, it paid out, and she always walked away a winner.

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7297. Jack Black’s Teenage Cocaine Recovery-As a 14-year-old eighth grader, Jack Black started using cocaine and quickly slipped into addiction a few years after his parents, Judith and Thomas, divorced. He gravitated toward older kids who were already partying and found himself in situations that felt increasingly dangerous and out of control. A school therapist who listened without judging him became his lifeline, giving him a safe place to talk about his fear and shame. With that support, Black chose sobriety and slowly pulled himself out of the drug scene instead of letting it define the rest of his life.

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7298. Mini Brain Organoids Grow Eyes-In 2021, a team of scientists at University Hospital Düsseldorf in Germany grew human stem cells into brain organoids that unexpectedly sprouted eye-like structures. These mini brains developed paired optic cups with light-sensitive retinal tissue, complete with lenses and corneal-like tissue that could respond to light signals.

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7299. Brazil Nut Effect in Nuts-When you shake a container of mixed nuts, the largest pieces, like Brazil nuts, mysteriously rise to the top instead of sinking. Physicists call this counterintuitive behavior the

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7300. William Chandler’s Fake Pilot Career-In South Africa, William Chandler worked as a pilot for South African Airways for over 20 years before anyone discovered he lacked the proper airline transport pilot license. He reportedly used false credentials to secure and keep his job, flying international routes and carrying thousands of passengers during his career. His fraud came to light only after an in-flight incident triggered a detailed internal review of his qualifications. The airline then removed him from duty and opened an investigation.

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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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