Fact Cards

7391. Last Kmart In Continental America-Only a single Kmart store currently exists in the continental United States (as of Jan 2026), even though during its peak in the early 1980s almost 2,100 Kmart stores were operating across the United States and Canada. After Kmart closed its last full-sized big-box mainland store in 2024, only a smaller location in Kendale Lakes, Florida, remained as the lone surviving Kmart in the continental U.S.

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7392. Witness Protection’s Perfect Record-The Witness Protection Program claims a 100 percent success rate for subjects who have followed its guidelines, according to the U.S. Marshals Service. Since its creation under the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, the program has protected witnesses and their family members whose testimony put them at risk from organized crime, drug traffickers, terrorists, and other violent offenders.

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7393. Asimov’s Everest Bet Implodes-In 1953, Isaac Asimov wrote the short story

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7394. Submarine Lost By Translation Error-During World War II, the U.S. Navy submarine USS Grayback was sunk with 80 sailors aboard, and then remained undiscovered for 75 years because of a single mistranslation in wartime Japanese records. Researchers later realized that an error in transcribing the coordinates had placed the wreck in the wrong location, and once they corrected the entry in 2019, searchers found the submarine within days.

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7395. Five Gene Virus, Virtually Fatal-The rabies virus has a genome that codes for only five genes, yet it has an almost 100 percent fatality rate once clinical symptoms appear. After an infected animal transmits the virus, it travels through the nervous system to the brain, where it causes acute encephalitis and characteristic neurological symptoms. At that stage, effective treatment is virtually nonexistent, and documented survivors are extremely rare, which is why post-exposure vaccination must occur before symptoms begin.

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7396. Bond Star Saves Co-Star-While filming a love scene for the James Bond movie Die Another Day in 2002, Halle Berry began choking on a fig and could not breathe. Pierce Brosnan stepped in and performed the Heimlich maneuver, dislodging the fruit.

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7397. Why Stranger Danger Faded-Most missing children are runaways, and about 99 percent of abducted children are taken by relatives, typically a noncustodial father, rather than by unknown predators. In response to these statistics, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children shifted away from its old campaign that focused on “stranger danger.”

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7398. How Rare Tall Women Are-In the United States, height distribution data show that only 11 percent of women are taller than 5'7

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7399. Banksy Sells $20K Art Cheap-In October 2013, street artist Banksy secretly set up a stall in New York City and sold his authentic spray art canvases for $60 each, even though their estimated value at the time was about $20,000. The first customer even negotiated a two-for-one deal, walking away with two original Banksy pieces for just $60 total.

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7400. Caterpillar Wears Corpse Camouflage-In Hawaii, scientists have discovered a new carnivorous caterpillar that scavenges weak or dead insects trapped in spider webs, and then wears their body parts as camouflage. This grisly covering hides it from both spiders and other predators while it raids the webs for more trapped prey.

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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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