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7581. Aretha Ousts Carolyn From Sparkle-In 1975, Carolyn Franklin, Aretha Franklin's younger sister and a songwriter who had penned several hits for her, got what looked like a breakthrough when producer Curtis Mayfield asked her to sing on the soundtrack for the film Sparkle. After Aretha heard Mayfield's unfinished songs, she stepped in, and following an intervention by their father, Carolyn was forced off the project and replaced by Aretha on the recordings. Sparkle went Top 20 with Aretha's vocals, and although Carolyn was devastated, she later admitted that her sister really did sing those songs better than anyone else could have.

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7582. Nickelback Dominates 2000s U.S. Radio-Nickelback released How You Remind Me in 2001, and U.S. radio stations picked it up so heavily that it dominated the airwaves throughout the 2000s. Between its release and the end of 2009, the single was played over 1.2 million times on American radio, making it the most played song on U.S. radio that decade.

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7583. Curtis Priem’s Lost $70 Billion-Curtis Priem, who co-founded Nvidia in 1993 and served as its chief technology officer, retired from the company in 2003 and sold off all of his Nvidia shares by 2006. In the years that followed, Nvidia’s stock price soared, and estimates suggest that if Priem had held onto those shares, they would be worth more than 70 billion dollars today (February 2026).

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7584. Birmingham Cadaver Reveals Triphallia Surprise-In 2024, researchers at the University of Birmingham Medical School dissected the donated body of a 78-year-old white man and discovered an ultra-rare case of triphallia (three penises), only the second human case ever reported. Although his external genitalia looked normal in life, the dissection revealed two small supernumerary penises stacked behind the primary one, each with its own corpora cavernosa and glans, with a single tortuous urethra shared between the main and one extra shaft, while the smallest lacked a urethra-like structure.

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7585. Black Widow Venom In Eye-In 2017 in Vancouver, Canada, a woman ended up in the hospital after her husband smashed a black widow spider with a hammer, and a piece of its body shot straight into her left eye, delivering venom without a bite. Within minutes, her eye ballooned shut, and she developed nausea, full-body cramps, and spasms as the venom entered her bloodstream, forcing doctors to treat her for black widow envenomation.

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7586. Potosi Silver Triggers Price Revolution-In the 16th century, Spain tapped a massive mountain of rich silver ore at Potosí in present-day Bolivia and shipped vast quantities of that bullion back to Europe. As New World silver flooded into Spain and then across Western Europe, the money supply surged, prices and inflation rose sharply in what historians call the Price Revolution, and the real value of Spanish currency eroded. Combined with the high costs of imperial wars, this inflation and mounting debt pushed the Spanish monarchy into repeated bankruptcies by the end of the century.

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7587. Music Bingo Distracts Surgery Team-In February 2023 at InSight Surgery Center in Lone Tree, Colorado, 56-year-old Bart Writer stopped breathing during a routine cataract surgery while surgeon C. Starck Johnson and anesthesiologist Michael Urban were playing a “music bingo” game based on 1970s and 1980s songs. A malpractice suit later alleged that a vital signs monitor had been turned off, so no audible alarm warned the team that Writer was no longer breathing, and he was pronounced dead shortly afterward, with an autopsy citing cardiac arrest. The case was eventually settled out of court.

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7588. Dead Butt Syndrome Proves Real-In a season 5 episode of King of the Hill, a doctor jokingly calls Hank’s problem “diminished gluteal syndrome,” or “dead butt syndrome,” a term that later turned out to describe a real condition where weak glute muscles contribute to back and knee pain. Doctors also call it “sleepy glutes,” “flabby butt,” or

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7589. Judith Deutsch-Haspel Erased For Refusal-In 1935, Judith Deutsch-Haspel was Austria’s most decorated female swimmer, holding multiple national records and being named the country’s top sportswoman. When she and fellow Jewish swimmers Ruth Langer and Lucie Goldner refused to compete for Austria in the 1936 Berlin Olympics as a protest against Hitler’s regime, Austrian sports officials retaliated by erasing Deutsch-Haspel from the record books and banning her from all future competitions. Her titles and times were only officially reinstated decades later.

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7590. Sudden Gamer Death After Marathons-A systematic review of medical reports from 2002 to 2021 found 23 documented cases of “sudden gamer death,” where people died non-violently in connection with playing video games. In 18 of those cases, the final gaming session before death lasted from roughly a full day to several days with minimal rest. The authors warned that extremely long, uninterrupted gaming sessions can create dangerous conditions for sudden death in vulnerable players.

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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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