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7471. Electric Chair’s Horrific First Execution-In 1890, New York carried out the first human execution by electric chair at Auburn Prison after testing the device on calves and a horse. The initial current failed to kill the prisoner cleanly, and a second 2,000-volt surge reportedly set him on fire in front of horrified witnesses. Afterward, the generator’s supplier said,

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7472. Mana Ashida’s Totoro-San Nickname-Mana Ashida, the young Japanese girl who played young Mako Mori in the 2013 film Pacific Rim, could not pronounce Guillermo del Toro's last name, so he told her she could call him

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7473. Lego Patent Expires, Clones Proliferate-In 1978, Lego's patent on its interlocking brick design expired, which allowed other companies such as Mega Bloks to start producing their own compatible

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7474. Buddy System Saves WWI Feet-In World War I, armies introduced an early version of the buddy system to fight trench foot by making each soldier jointly responsible for a partner’s feet instead of just his own. Paired soldiers checked and cared for each other’s feet in the wet, unsanitary trenches, which improved compliance with prevention routines. With this simple change in responsibility, trench foot rates dropped significantly among frontline troops.

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7475. Cartel Bounty On Sombra Dog-In Colombia, a drug-sniffing dog was so successful at finding cocaine that a cartel put a bounty on her head. The dog, named Sombra, worked with the national police and detected so many cartel shipments that the powerful Gulf Clan reportedly offered a reward to anyone who killed her. In response, authorities reassigned Sombra to safer duty with extra protection so she could keep working without becoming an easy target.

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7476. Masked Lonesome Gal Radio Fantasy-In the 1940s, the radio show The Lonesome Gal featured actress Jean King speaking in a seductive, one-on-one style to each listener, using a microphone sensitive enough to pick up each wisp of her breath. Her intimate monologues helped her build a devoted following of thousands of fans across more than 50 cities. To protect her real identity from the men who fantasized about her, she posed in photos wearing a mask, keeping Lonesome Gal as a mysterious persona rather than a public face.

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7477. Gig Young Collapses, Wilder Replaces-In 1974, Gig Young was originally cast as the Waco Kid in Mel Brooks's film Blazing Saddles, but his alcoholism caught up with him on the very first day of filming when he collapsed on set from alcohol withdrawal. Brooks fired him after the incident and brought in Gene Wilder to replace him in the role.

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7478. Nursing Tops U.S. Women’s Jobs-In the United States, nursing is the most common job for women, topping the list of female-held occupations. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor show that more women work in nursing than in any other single profession (as of January 2026).

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7479. Helena Valero Between Yanomami Worlds-As a child, a girl named Helena Valero was kidnapped by the Yanomami, an Indigenous group living in the Amazon rainforest, and she stayed with them for more than 20 years. In 1956, she managed to return to Brazilian society, but subsequently made the decision to rejoin the Yanomami and live with them once more. She remained there until her death in 2002.

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7480. Dyslexic Pete Conrad Reaches Moon-The third person to walk on the moon was astronaut Pete Conrad, who struggled with dyslexia and got expelled from high school as a teenager. He later turned his academic life around, earned an engineering degree from Princeton University, and joined NASA. In 1969, he walked on the lunar surface as commander of Apollo 12, proving that early learning difficulties did not stop him from reaching one of the most elite achievements in human history.

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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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