Fact Cards

7351. Egg Thief Colin Watson Falls-In Britain, a man named Colin Watson built the largest known collection of rare wild bird eggs by repeatedly stealing them from protected wildlife sites across the country. In 2006, he died after falling from a tree while attempting to steal eggs from a protected species.

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7352. KORB Forehead Tattoo Radio Prank-In 2000, an Iowa man and his stepson had the call letters of radio station KORB tattooed on their foreheads after hearing a DJ promise a six-figure payout to anyone who did it. When they arrived at the station, the staff informed them that the on-air offer was merely a prank, leaving them with permanent KORB tattoos and no money. The pair filed a lawsuit over the stunt, but the court eventually dismissed their cases.

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7353. Arrow Lodged In Henry V-In 1403, during the Battle of Shrewsbury, the future King Henry V was shot in the face with an arrow that lodged about 6 inches into his skull. A surgeon named John Bradmore, who was in prison at the time, crafted a custom hollow extractor and slowly widened the wound over days before removing the arrowhead and packing the cavity, saving Henry’s life and leaving him with a lifelong facial scar.

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7354. Roman Consuls Make January First-In 153 BCE, the Romans chose January 1 as the start of the new year because that was the day newly elected consuls officially took office in the Roman Republic. This political decision tied the calendar to the start of the consular term, and later reforms preserved January 1 as New Year’s Day in the Julian and then Gregorian calendars used in much of the world today.

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7355. Kosovo Boys Named Tonibler Blair-After the Kosovo War in 1999, many ethnic Albanian parents in Kosovo began naming their newborn sons

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7356. Lorelei Linklater Begs Boyhood Death-During the 12-year shoot of Boyhood (2002–2014), director Richard Linklater’s daughter, Lorelei Linklater, grew tired of playing Samantha and asked him to kill off her character so she would not have to continue. He refused because a sudden, dramatic death would clash with the film’s quiet, naturalistic portrait of everyday life. Instead, she stayed in the cast, and her character aged on screen alongside the rest of the family.

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7357. Lertlaks Glitched Thai Millionaire Win-In 2002, a contestant named Lertlak Panchanawaporn on the Thai version of 'Who Wants to Be a Millionaire' sat in the hot seat and watched the correct answers appear on her computer screen. A technical error had routed the answer feed cable to her monitor instead of the host's, letting her pick every right option and claim the grand prize. The win was later investigated and declared invalid, and the top payout was revoked.

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7358. Jakarta Becomes Worlds Largest City-As of 2025, Jakarta is listed as the world’s largest city by population, with more than 41 million people in its metropolitan area.

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7359. Martha Wash Hidden Behind Model-In 1990, C+C Music Factory used Martha Wash's powerful vocals on

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7360. Sedition Act Leaves Jefferson Exposed-In 1798, President John Adams signed the Sedition Act, which made it a crime to publish

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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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