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7611. Migros’ Unusual Cooperative Business Model-Switzerland's largest supermarket chain, Migros operates under an unusual philosophy set by Swiss entrepreneur Gottlieb Duttweiler when he founded the company in 1925. The chain refuses to sell alcohol or tobacco, pays no dividends to investors, and lowers prices if profits exceed 5% so customers benefit directly. Migros runs as a cooperative owned by more than 2 million members who can vote on company decisions, and it dedicates 1% of its revenue to cultural and social projects.

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7612. Jonathan Nolan Wrote Dent’s Line-In the 2008 film The Dark Knight, the character Harvey Dent delivers the famous line,

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7613. Cancún Chosen by Computer Models-Cancun did not exist as a city until 1970, when the Mexican government decided to build a new resort destination along the Caribbean coast of the Yucatan Peninsula. Officials used early computer models to analyze potential locations and selected the narrow barrier island where Cancun now stands. At the time, the area had only three residents living there. The government then launched a massive development project that transformed the empty coastline into one of the world’s most famous tourist cities.

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7614. Kelsey the Dog Saved Bob-In 2016, a 64-year-old man in Michigan named Bob slipped in the snow outside his farmhouse on New Year's Eve while walking about 15 feet to get firewood, and broke his neck. Unable to move and trapped in freezing temperatures, he lay helpless in his backyard. His 5-year-old Golden Retriever named Kelsey stayed on top of him for warmth and repeatedly licked his face and hands for nearly 20 hours to keep him conscious. A neighbor eventually found him and rushed him to the hospital, where surgeons operated on his spine, and he later regained the ability to walk again.

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7615. Lea Rose Fiega’s Discarded Million-In March 2021, a Massachusetts woman named Lea Rose Fiega bought a $30 scratch-off ticket at a convenience store during her lunch break. In a hurry, she scratched it quickly, assumed it was a loser, and handed it to the store owners to throw away. Ten days later, the son of the store owners noticed that one number remained unscratched, scratched it, and discovered the ticket was worth $1 million. The family returned the ticket to Fiega, who collected the prize and later rewarded the store owners for their honesty.

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7616. Kansai Airport’s Perfect Luggage Record-Kansai International Airport in Osaka, Japan, opened in 1994 and quickly became one of the country’s busiest international hubs. Despite handling millions of passengers and bags over decades, the airport developed an extraordinary reputation for precision baggage handling. By 2024, the airport had reached 30 years of service without ever losing a single piece of checked luggage.

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7617. Japan’s Post-Pandemic Travel Reluctance-A 2022 study by the travel company Expedia found that 35% of adults in Japan said they intended to never travel again. Researchers compared attitudes across several countries and discovered that no other nation showed a similar level of reluctance toward travel. South Korea ranked second in the survey, but only 15% of respondents there said they planned to avoid travel permanently.

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7618. Felix Baumgartner’s Fatal Paragliding Crash-Austrian skydiver Felix Baumgartner, famous for the 2012 Red Bull Stratos project, became the first person to break the sound barrier in freefall after jumping from nearly 39 kilometers above Earth over New Mexico. On July 17, 2025, Baumgartner died at age 56 while flying a motorized paraglider above Italy. Investigators later determined that human error caused the crash, as he lost control and entered a spiral from which he could not recover.

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7619. Alekhine’s Last Championship Checkmate-During the 1929 World Chess Championship match in Germany, Cuban chess champion Jose Raul Capablanca defended his title against Russian grandmaster Alexander Alekhine. In one of the games, Alekhine delivered a checkmate directly on the board, rather than winning by resignation. This moment became historically notable because most later championship games ended when the losing player resigned before mate. As a result, the 1929 match marked the last time a checkmate actually occurred on the board during a World Chess Championship game (as of March 2026).

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7620. Costco Controls Half Cashew Market-American retail giant Costco sells roughly 50% of all cashews purchased worldwide through its massive global supply chain. To meet this demand, the company sources cashews from independent farmers across at least 20 countries. In Africa alone, an estimated 2.5 million small-scale cashew farmers contribute to Costco’s supply network.

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37 COMMENTS

  2. 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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  4. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  10. 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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  13. 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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  17. 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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  19. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  26. 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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