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7401. Three Female Giant Stick Bugs-In all of recorded scientific history (as of Jan 2026), observers have seen only three female giant stick bugs in the wild.

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7402. America’s New Homebody Nation-Researchers analyzing changes from 2003 to 2023, found that Americans spent nearly 90 minutes less per day, on average, outside their homes in 2023 than they did in 2003. Time-use data show declines in activities like going to work, shopping, and socializing in public spaces, with more of daily life shifting indoors.

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7403. Capablanca Tries To Fix Chess-In the 1920s, Cuban Chess master José Raúl Capablanca, then one of the world's best players and a former world champion, tried to promote his own variant called Capablanca Chess because he believed top-level games were becoming too repetitive and drawish. His version enlarged the board and added new pieces with unique moves.

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7404. Pack Out Poop In Canyon-On rafting trips where you are granted access to the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon, you have to take your own waste out instead of burying it or leaving it behind. Regulations require river runners to use portable toilet systems so all human waste can be carried out and disposed of properly after the trip. This rule keeps beaches, camps, and the river corridor clean for other visitors and protects the canyon's limited, fragile environments.

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7405. Templars Invent Medieval Travel Banking-In the Middle Ages, pilgrims heading from London to Jerusalem could deposit their money at London’s Temple Church with the Knights Templar and receive a written letter of credit instead of carrying cash. As they traveled, they could redeem this document for funds at other Templar houses along the route, which reduced the risk of theft or loss on the dangerous journey. This network of deposits and withdrawals effectively created an early form of international banking centuries before modern financial institutions.

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7406. Grant’s Two Year World Tour-Just months after leaving office in 1877, former U.S. president Ulysses S. Grant set off on a world tour that lasted over two and a half years. He and his wife traveled through Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and across the Pacific, visiting numerous countries along the way. By completing this journey, Grant became the first U.S. president to circumnavigate the globe.

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7407. Spy Golfer Behind Waffle House-One of Waffle House’s co-founders, Tom Forkner, had previously served as a counterintelligence officer working with the Manhattan Project and was later inducted into the Georgia Golf Hall of Fame. In the 1950s, he teamed up with Joe Rogers Sr. to open the first Waffle House in Avondale Estates, Georgia. Forkner chose the name “Waffle House” because waffles had the highest profit margin on the menu.

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7408. Kung Fu Really Means Skill-The term Kung Fu (gongfu) does not actually mean “martial art”; it refers to any skill achieved through time, effort, and discipline. In Chinese usage, the fighting systems that Westerners usually call “kung fu” are more accurately known as Wushu. This distinction means that while Wushu describes combat techniques, gongfu can apply to mastery in any field, from cooking to calligraphy.

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7409. Teen Fugitive Who Crossed Oceans-In the 1840s, 15-year-old enslaved Black teen Thomas White escaped bondage and went on to evade slave catchers while surviving as a cook, lumberjack, and sailor across Australia, India, and other distant ports. His dictated story, recorded by his employer’s family and then hidden in their papers for more than 150 years, resurfaced in 2025 when tattered pages were rediscovered in storage.

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7410. Elizabeth I’s All Win Lottery-In 1566, Queen Elizabeth I launched England’s first official state lottery to fund repairs to ports and strengthen the realm. Every ticket holder was guaranteed a prize and also enjoyed immunity from one arrest, except in cases of murder, treason, piracy, or felony.

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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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