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7341. Alonzo Cushing Holds In Guts-In 1863, 22-year-old Civil War artillery officer Alonzo Cushing commanded his battery at Gettysburg during Pickett's Charge when a shell fragment disemboweled him, forcing him to hold in his intestines as he stayed at his guns. He refused to leave the line and kept giving orders until a bullet to the head killed him. In 2014 he was finally awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions that day.

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7342. Passport Typo Traps James Ray-In 1968, after he shot civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray tried to escape U.S. justice by fleeing to an African country that had no extradition treaty with the United States. He traveled with two falsified passports, but officials noticed a typo when he carelessly kept both documents in the same wallet.

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7343. Buzz Aldrin Pees On Moon-In 1969, during the Apollo 11 mission, astronaut Buzz Aldrin became the first person to urinate on the moon when he used the urine-collection system in his spacesuit soon after stepping onto the lunar surface. No one has contested his claim to the odd lunar first, so he remains the first man to pee on the moon (as of 2026).

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7344. California Gurls Answers Empire State-In 2010, Katy Perry released the single

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7345. Jonathan James Teen NASA Hacker-In 1999, 15-year-old hacker Jonathan James broke into computer systems at NASA and the U.S. Department of Defense, intercepting software and sensitive data. NASA shut down parts of its computer network for 21 days to investigate and repair the breach, a move that reportedly cost tens of thousands of dollars. James later became the first juvenile in the United States to face incarceration for cybercrime.

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7346. British Army Mandatory Mustache Years-From 1860 to 1916, regulations in the British Army required every enlisted man to grow and maintain a mustache, treating a bare upper lip as a breach of discipline. If a soldier shaved his mustache without permission, he could face formal punishment, including confinement or other disciplinary action, for violating the grooming code.

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7347. Black Tom Blast Scars Liberty-On July 30, 1916, a freight car loaded with TNT exploded at the Black Tom Island munitions depot in New York Harbor, creating a blast so powerful it registered as a 5.5-magnitude earthquake and was felt 90 miles away in Philadelphia. The explosion damaged the Statue of Liberty, and her torch platform has remained closed to the public ever since.

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7348. Bank Of England Gold Mountain-The Bank of England’s vaults hold around 400,000 bars of gold, worth over £200 billion (as of October 2020), stacked in massive rows beneath London.

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7349. Beer Bottle Reaches Challenger Deep-In 2022, during a deep-sea expedition to Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, scientists found a fully intact beer bottle sitting at the deepest known point in the ocean.

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7350. Average American Man Five Nine-In the United States, the average adult man is about 69 inches tall, which works out to roughly 5 feet 9 inches.

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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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