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7491. Forty-Four Percent Never Drink-About 44 percent of the world's adult population has never consumed alcohol. This group includes people who avoid drinking for religious, cultural, health, or personal reasons.

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7492. Magnus Carlsen’s No-Streak Record-Magnus Carlsen, one of the greatest chess players of all time, has never lost three or more classical chess games in a row in his adult professional career (as of February 2025). The last time he lost three classical games in a row was in 2003, when he was 12 years old.

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7493. Coded D-Day Pigeon Still Unread-In 1982, workers in the UK found a mummified carrier pigeon in a chimney, still carrying an encrypted D-Day message dated from 1944. The bird had never completed its mission, so the coded note remained hidden for decades inside the house. When experts examined the message, they realized that the cipher did not match any known wartime codebooks. Britain’s intelligence agency has asked the public for help, and the D-Day message still has not been decoded (as of February 2026).

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7494. Transplanted Organs Often Time Out-Kidney and other organ donations typically do not last the rest of the patient’s life, and about 50% of transplanted organs fail within 10 years. After the initial surgery, patients may live for years with a functioning donated organ, but over time its performance can gradually decline until it no longer keeps them healthy.

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7495. BFI Screens Original 1977 StarWars-In June 2025, the British Film Institute screened the first released version of Star Wars using a perfectly preserved original 1977 print that archivists had recovered from storage. This was the exact theatrical cut that George Lucas had kept off public big screens for 47 years after replacing it with altered editions.

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7496. Traci Lords’ Porn Career-In the 1980s, adult film actress Traci Lords starred in 75 adult movies before leaving the industry. It was later revealed that she had faked her age during that period. That revelation showed that all but her final movie had been filmed while she was still a minor.

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7497. Ghost B-52 Circles Vermont Sky-In 1960, a B-52 on a night training mission out of Westover Air Force Base flew near the Canadian border when it slowly banked left and began descending toward Vermont. Thinking the aircraft was breaking up, the navigator ejected without orders, and the pilot heard the violent ejection and assumed the plane was coming apart. He ordered the rest of the crew to bail out, and eight men escaped, although one crew member later died from the attempt. The now crewless bomber kept flying in large spirals for about 50 miles before finally crashing in an open field near Vermont.

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7498. Rooftop Ninja Hides Inside Sign-In April 2024, contractors working on the roof of a Family Fare grocery store in Midland, Michigan, followed an extension cord into the rooftop sign and discovered a 34-year-old woman secretly living inside. Police, who did not release her name, later nicknamed her the

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7499. Austria’s McEmbassy Lifeline For Americans-In Austria, every McDonald’s restaurant acts as a

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7500. South Park’s 399 Swear Words-In 1999, the movie

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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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