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7651. Doctors Once Hid Cancer Diagnoses-In 1961, a survey of physicians found that 90% of doctors said they would not tell a patient if they had cancer. Many medical professionals at the time thought the diagnosis would undermine the patient's will to live or cause needless despair. Over the next two decades, medical ethics shifted toward transparency and patient autonomy. By 1977, another survey found that 97% of doctors said they would disclose the diagnosis to their patients.

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7652. Kung Fury 2 Stuck Post-Production-The 2015 short film Kung Fury became a viral hit and eventually led to a full-length theatrical sequel. Kung Fury 2 was filmed in 2019 and features Michael Fassbender and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Despite completing principal photography, the movie became trapped in legal disputes and production issues during post-production. As a result, the film has remained unreleased and stuck in post-production as of March 2026.

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7653. Which Wich Sandwich Dislocated Jaw-In 2010, a man in Georgia dislocated his jaw while trying to bite into a Double Wicked Sandwich at the chain restaurant Which Wich. The oversized sandwich contained double portions of beef, bacon, turkey, ham, pepperoni, and three kinds of cheese. As he attempted to bite into the sandwich, his jaw dislocated. The man declined to sue the restaurant and only asked for a replacement sandwich because his friend had eaten the original one while he was being treated.

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7654. Robert E. Howard’s Four-Year Output-American writer Robert E. Howard, the creator of Conan the Barbarian, produced nearly the entire Conan and King Conan saga between 1932 and 1936. During the same four-year span, he also wrote the Hyborian Age history that connected many of his characters, including Kull of Atlantis, into a shared fictional timeline. Howard accomplished all of this before the age of 30. In 1936, he died by suicide at just 30 years old, ending one of the most intense bursts of creative output in fantasy literature.

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7655. Celia Killed Enslaver Robert Newsom-In 1850, a Missouri slaveholder named Robert Newsom purchased a 14-year-old enslaved girl named Celia after his wife had died the previous year and forced her to serve as his concubine. For years Newsom repeatedly assaulted her. In 1855, Celia killed Newsom in self-defense while trying to stop another assault. She was later convicted of murder by a Missouri court and executed by hanging.

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7656. Party Held After Malcolm X Assassination-On February 21, 1965, American civil rights leader Malcolm X was assassinated while preparing to speak at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. After the shooting, the venue was cleaned up, and later that same evening, a previously scheduled social event still went ahead at the ballroom.

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7657. Pasolini Made Vatican’s Favorite Jesus Film-The 1964 film

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7658. President Kim Avoided Korean Air-Before 1999, Korean Air had a reputation in the aviation industry as “an industry pariah, notorious for fatal crashes,” with several accidents that resulted in hundreds of deaths. The airline’s safety record became so troubling that South Korean President Kim Dae-jung publicly criticized it as “an embarrassment to the nation.” He even chose to fly on the rival carrier, Asiana Airlines, instead of the country’s flagship airline.

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7659. German Man Controls His Pupils-Direct voluntary control of pupil dilation and constriction in humans was long considered impossible because the reflex is controlled by the autonomic nervous system. In 2021, however, a 23-year-old man in Germany demonstrated to doctors that he could deliberately change the size of his pupils. Researchers observed that he could drastically dilate or constrict them on command without changes in lighting.

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7660. Parakaryon: Lifeform Outside Tree-Parakaryon myojinensis is a single-celled organism discovered near hydrothermal vents off Japan. Scientists found that it appears to be distinct from both prokaryotes and eukaryotes, the two major categories used to classify life on earth. Because of its unusual cell structure, researchers have been unable to place it within any known branch of the tree of life. It remains the only known species whose evolutionary position is completely unknown.

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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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