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7361. Creedence Clearwater Revivals Southern Swamp-Creedence Clearwater Revival came out of the San Francisco Bay Area, even though critics and fans recognize them as pioneers of swamp rock, a genre that originated in Louisiana. They built that sound by writing lyrics full of Southern U.S. iconography like bayous and catfish and by singing with a Louisiana-style twang, which firmly tied their image to the American South despite their California roots.

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7362. Viking DNA Traces CCR5 Resistance-A 2025 study of Viking Age DNA traced a rare HIV-resistant mutation, called CCR5 delta 32, back to a person who lived near the Black Sea between about 6,700 and 9,000 years ago. Researchers analyzing more than 3,000 ancient and modern genomes found that this mutation disables a key immune protein that most HIV strains use to enter cells, which helps explain why people who inherit two copies can be highly resistant to infection.

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7363. Rib Hadda Spams Akhenaten Court-Around 1350 BC, Rib Hadda, king of Byblos, bombarded the Egyptian court with so many unsolicited clay tablet letters that he wore out his welcome with Pharaoh Akhenaten. The pharaoh eventually sent an irritated reply telling him to stop, making one of the earliest recorded cases of diplomatic spam in history.

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7364. Super Bowl Classified Top Risk-The U.S. Department of Homeland Security classifies the Super Bowl as a Level 1 special event, its highest risk tier for potential threats, vulnerabilities, and consequences. That designation triggers extensive federal interagency support around the host city, bringing in multiple agencies and layered security measures to protect the game, the stadium, and the surrounding area.

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7365. Indiana Gas Boom Burns Itself-During the Indiana Gas Boom of the 1880s, towns and companies burned huge “flambeaux” torch displays, wasting around 90 percent of the natural gas just for advertising and public amusement. Within a couple of decades, the fields were largely depleted, the wells lost pressure, and most of the oil that could have been pushed out by that gas was left trapped underground.

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7366. Liam Neeson Boxer Before Hollywood-Before he became an actor, Liam Neeson worked in Ireland as a forklift driver for Guinness, a lorry driver, and an assistant architect, after spending his youth as an amateur boxing champion who won several regional titles.

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7367. Dinner For One European Tradition-In 1963, German television recorded an 18-minute British comedy sketch called Dinner for One, featuring an aging aristocrat and her overworked butler. Over the decades, it became a New Year's Eve staple across much of Europe, spawning the catchphrase

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7368. Romans Blast Las Medulas Mountains-In 77 AD, Roman engineers turned the hills of Las Médulas in northwestern Spain into a man-made badland by blasting them apart with water. They channeled torrents through tunnels and galleries, then suddenly released the pressure to collapse entire mountains to sift out the gold hidden inside, leaving behind the scarred red landscape that still exists today.

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7369. Green Ranger Yasutomo Ihara Burglaries-In 2014, Japanese stuntman and actor Yasutomo Ihara, who had played the Green Power Ranger on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, was arrested in Japan for a long string of break-ins. Police said he used skills and training from his stunt work to rob 43 houses, turning his on-screen agility into a real-world burglary spree.

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7370. Easy Bake Ovens Burn Children-In 2007, about 1 million Easy-Bake Ovens were recalled after 278 reports of children getting their hands or fingers caught in the oven’s opening. Those incidents included 82 burn injuries, 16 of which were second or third-degree burns, and one 5-year-old girl whose finger had to be amputated because of a severe burn.

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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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