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7551. Bruce Willis’ One-Man Razzie Category-At the 42nd Golden Raspberry Awards in 2022, the Razzies created a special category titled

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7552. Jonathan Metz’s Self-Amputation Escape-In 2010, a 31-year-old Connecticut man named Jonathan Metz spent three days with his arm trapped in his broken furnace before anyone found him. After he began to smell rotting flesh, he used a saw blade to try to amputate his own arm, fashioned a tourniquet from his shirt, and survived by drinking water leaking from the furnace until he passed out from the pain. A worried friend finally called 911 when Metz did not show up for work; firefighters used heavy tools to free him, and doctors said his attempt to remove the arm likely saved his life by stopping the infection from spreading.

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7553. Detroit’s 66-Year Population Slide Reverses-In 1957, Detroit stood as America’s fifth-largest city with 1.85 million residents, but it then endured 66 straight years of population loss, dropping to about 630,000 residents by 2022 and becoming the only U.S. city ever to fall back below 1 million after once surpassing it. In 2023, new U.S. Census Bureau estimates showed Detroit gaining 1,852 residents between July 1, 2022, and July 1, 2023, bringing its population to 633,366 and marking its first population increase since 1957.

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7554. Stellan Skarsgard Acts By Earpiece-In 2022, Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård suffered a stroke that affected his memory and language, making it hard for him to remember his lines. To keep working, he now wears an earpiece on set while an assistant feeds him his dialogue in real time during projects like Dune: Part Two and Andor season 2. He has said this new way of working is challenging, but he is relieved that the core of his acting survived the stroke.

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7555. Xbox Name Wins Hated Test-During the original Xbox’s development, Microsoft’s marketing team disliked the name and only put

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7556. UNC’s Hidden Server Behind Wall-During an audit at the University of North Carolina in 2001, staff discovered that one of their most reliable file servers had been accidentally walled off in a construction project and left sealed behind a wall for more than four years. The machine kept running the entire time, serving files and handling logins without anyone realizing it was physically inaccessible. Administrators only noticed the problem when they tried to trace network cabling during the audit and found the server’s room no longer existed.

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7557. Takeout And Delivery Now Dominate-According to the 2025 National Restaurant Association report, takeout and delivery now account for about 75 percent of all restaurant orders in the United States.

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7558. Linda Atkins’ Lifesaving Orange Juice-In 2011, Linda Atkins, a Dollar General cashier in Tennessee, felt symptoms of diabetic shock during her shift, grabbed a $1.69 bottle of orange juice from the cooler, drank it to stabilize herself, and paid for it after she finished work. The company still fired her for

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7559. Usha Ram’s Fifty-Cent Firing-In Vancouver, Burger King cook Usha Ram, who had worked there for 24 years, was fired after she took home a fish sandwich, fries, and an orange soda in 2013, believing her manager had allowed her a full meal because she had forgotten her wallet. Janif Mohammed, the franchise owner, asserted that she was only granted permission for a sandwich, and viewed the additional fries and drink, valued at approximately 50 cents after the employee discount, as theft under the company's zero tolerance policy. In 2017, a B.C. Supreme Court judge ruled that Ram had no intent to steal, called the dismissal a disproportionate response to a misunderstanding, and awarded her about $46,000 in lost wages and aggravated damages.

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7560. Fred Collins Escapes Straight Inc.-In 1982, 19-year-old Fred Collins Jr. went to visit his brother at Straight Inc., a teen drug rehab program near St. Petersburg, Florida. When he was there, Fred was screened, and he admitted to using marijuana. The staff then kept him there against his will for about 10 months instead of letting him leave. He eventually escaped and returned to Virginia, then sued Straight for false imprisonment. A federal jury in Alexandria awarded him $220,000 in compensatory and punitive damages in 1983 for his illegal detention.

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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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