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7381. Clint Eastwood's Uncounted Children-Clint Eastwood has at least eight children with six women, but he has refused to confirm how many offspring he really has, and some sources say the number is considerably higher. His biographer Patrick McGilligan describes the true total as indeterminate and notes that only about half of Eastwood's eight known children were publicly acknowledged at the time, with at least one child dating back to his high school years. In a 1997 60 Minutes interview, Eastwood shut down the topic by replying only that he has

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7382. Farmer Dictator Saves Rome-A man named Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus was given absolute power as dictator to save Rome from an invasion by the Aequi, and he crushed the threat in just 16 days before resigning and going back to his small farm. According to Roman tradition, he left his plow in 458 BC when officials told him of the crisis, took command, surrounded the enemy on the Algidus, and forced their surrender.

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7383. Face ID Fails Twice-In 2017, a Chinese woman named Yan from Nanjing bought a new iPhone X and discovered that her coworker could consistently unlock it using the phone's facial recognition feature, even though the device was registered to Yan. Apple gave Yan a refund, and she then bought a replacement iPhone X, but her coworker could again unlock it the same way, and Apple issued a second refund after confirming the same faulty Face ID behavior.

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7384. DiCaprio Rescues Drifting Passenger-In December 2019, Leonardo DiCaprio and his friends were on his rented boat in the Caribbean when he helped rescue a man who had been treading water for about 11 hours after drunkenly falling overboard a cruise. After hearing an emergency call about the missing passenger, DiCaprio, his crew joined the search, and they spotted him in rough water about an hour before sunset and a heavy rainstorm.

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7385. Teacher Who Faced Gunman-In December 2012, Sandy Hook teacher Victoria Leigh Soto hid her first grade students and tried to redirect gunman Adam Lanza away from her classroom at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. When Lanza entered, she had several children concealed in a closet, told him they were in the gym, and was shot while reportedly trying to shield her students as some of them ran from their hiding places. She was posthumously awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal in 2013, and musician Paul Simon performed “The Sound of Silence” at her funeral.

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7386. Last Official Smallpox Stocks-After the World Health Organization declared smallpox eradicated in 1980, the sole official remaining specimens of the variola virus were preserved in two high-security laboratories. One repository sits at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, and the other at the State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology VECTOR in Koltsovo, Russia.

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7387. Toddler Served Wine As Juice-In 2024, a 2-year-old girl's blood test in California revealed a blood alcohol content of 0.12 after a restaurant mistakenly served her cooking wine that staff had poured from a bottle mislabeled as apple juice. Her parents noticed she seemed unusually wobbly, had glassy eyes, and slurred her words after drinking from the to-go cup, then rushed her to the emergency room, where doctors confirmed alcohol poisoning and monitored her overnight.

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7388. Biles Chooses Safety Over Score-When gymnast Simone Biles executed the Yurchenko double pike on vault at the 2023 World Championships, she willingly took a half-point deduction so her coach could stand on the landing mat, ready to step in and redirect her if she was headed for a scary landing. The move is so difficult and risky that Biles and her team prioritized her safety over the score.

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7389. Disney’s Missing Best Picture Oscar-Disney is the only major studio to never win an Oscar for Best Picture (as of Jan 2026), even though Walt Disney Pictures has received multiple nominations for the award.

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7390. Cursed Norse Ring Before Tolkien-In Norse myth, long before J. R. R. Tolkien wrote The Lord of the Rings, a cursed ring called Andvaranaut brought doom to its owners. The dwarf Andvari originally owned the ring, but after the god Loki seized his hoard, Andvari laid a curse on Andvaranaut so that anyone who possessed it would suffer misfortune and death. In later Volsung legends, the ring passed through royal hands and repeatedly fulfilled that curse, turning wealth and power into tragedy for every new bearer.

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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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