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7311. Kotoku Wamura’s Lifesaving Fudai Floodgate-From 1947 to 1987, Kotoku Wamura served as mayor of Fudai in Iwate Prefecture in Japan and pushed through a massive floodgate project that cost about ¥3.56 billion, even as critics mocked it as an unnecessary waste. He had grown up hearing stories of deadly tsunamis and insisted on building the towering concrete barrier at the village's harbor. In March 2011, when the Tōhoku earthquake unleashed a devastating tsunami along Japan's northeast coast, the Fudai floodgate held firm and stopped the incoming wall of water. Despite the destruction of many nearby communities, Fudai managed to survive largely intact.

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7312. North Korea India College Megastadiums-By seating capacity, the largest stadium on Earth is in North Korea, and the second largest is in India (as of December 2025). Below those two giants, the next largest venues by capacity are all American college football stadiums rather than pro arenas. Week after week, U.S. college games fill these massive bowls with fans, so student teams regularly play in some of the biggest sports venues on the planet.

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7313. Weird Al’s Banned Nuclear Carols-In 1986, after his record label pushed him to record Christmas music,

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7314. Su Hui’s 841 Character Star-In 4th-century China, poet Su Hui wrote

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7315. Pilgrims Attack Thomas Morton’s Maypole-In 1627, a few years after the first Thanksgiving, the Plymouth colonists sent armed men to break up a wild May Day party at the settlement of Merrymount, where colonist Thomas Morton had raised a maypole, sung bawdy songs, and invited Native American women to join the festivities. The Pilgrim leadership saw the celebration as pagan, immoral, and dangerously friendly toward local tribes, so they arrested Morton and cut down the pole. They shipped him back to England and later shut down the settlement.

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7316. Michael Phelps Backstroke And ADHD-As a kid in Baltimore, Michael Phelps hated getting his face wet, so when he was seven, his mother steered him toward the backstroke to keep his head out of the water. He had been diagnosed with ADHD and stopped taking medication in the sixth grade, learning instead to pour his restless energy into the pool.

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7317. American Cats Friendlier Than Japanese-In a comparative study of pet behavior, researchers found that cats in the United States spent more time interacting with both a stranger and their own owner than cats living in Japan. The team also surveyed public attitudes and discovered that Americans, on average, viewed cats as pets more favorably than people in Japan did.

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7318. Kim Stenger’s Life Without Touch-Kim Stenger, a criminal law researcher in Cleveland, Ohio, is the world's only known living person with no sense of touch, pain, or temperature. Diagnosed at birth with complete sensory neuropathy, she grew up defying doctors who once assumed she would live in a vegetative state and instead earned a law degree and a job at the county prosecutor's office.

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7319. Bass Speaker’s Fake Fire Extinguisher-Starting in the late 20th century, scientists in several countries experimented with bass tones at 60 hertz and below to see if low-frequency sound could put out flames, and the work continued into the 2000s and 2010s in labs across the United States and Europe. In a more recent investigation of these systems, one researcher tracing the effect back to its source realized that the loudspeakers used to generate the sound were blasting strong airflows over the fire, much like a fan. That moving air, not any special acoustic property, starved the flames of oxygen and blew them out.

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7320. Cavity Bacteria You Catch Later-We are not born with the bacteria that cause tooth decay; we pick them up later when saliva carrying cavity-causing germs gets into our mouths. The main culprits are strains like Streptococcus mutans, which often spread from parents, siblings, or other close contacts through shared utensils, food, or kisses. Once those bacteria colonize a child's mouth, they feed on sugars, produce acid, and slowly erode tooth enamel.

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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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