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7661. Disney Churros Outprofit Disney+-In 2023, Disney’s theme parks sold an estimated 5.8 million churros at about $6 each, generating roughly $35 million in revenue. It is estimated that those sales produced about $32 million in gross profit. In the same period, Disney’s streaming business brought in about $20.6 billion in revenue but still posted a $1.7 billion loss, which means Disney made more profit from churro sales at its theme parks than it did for Disney+ streaming.

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7662. Andrew Carnegie’s 2,509 Libraries-Industrialist Andrew Carnegie spent $56.2 million to build 2,509 libraries across the world. These buildings became known as Carnegie Libraries, and towns had to commit to maintaining them and funding their operation before they could receive his money. Today, about 900 Carnegie Libraries are still operating in the United States.

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7663. Yuri Gagarin’s Phone Call Landing-When Yuri Gagarin, the first person in space, landed back on Earth on April 12, 1961, he came down near Saratov in Russia after ejecting from Vostok 1 and parachuting to the ground. According to Gagarin’s own recollection, he told the local farmer and her daughter not to be afraid because he was a Soviet citizen who had descended from space and needed to find a telephone to call Moscow to let them know he was back on earth.

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7664. Dr. Abid Hanson Flight Death-In 1998, Dr. Abid Hanson suffered a severe reaction to cigarette smoke on an Olympic Airways flight after his wife, Rubina Husain, asked three times to move him away from the smoking section. A flight attendant first said the plane was full and later said she was too busy, even though other seats were available. Hanson went into respiratory distress and died during the flight, and a court later awarded his widow $1.4 million.

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7665. Cecilia Gimenez’s “Monkey Christ” Restoration-The botched restoration nicknamed

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7666. Christine Collins’ Missing Son Case-In 1928 Los Angeles, a telephone operator named Christine Collins reported that her 9-year-old son, Walter Collins, had disappeared after leaving home to see a movie. Five months later, police reunited her with a boy from Illinois who claimed to be Walter, but Collins immediately insisted the child was an impostor and even produced dental records to prove it. Instead of reopening the investigation, police accused her of being unstable and had her involuntarily committed to a psychiatric ward under a “Code 12” order. The boy later admitted he was actually a runaway named Arthur Hutchens Jr., and the bizarre case later inspired the 2008 film Changeling starring Angelina Jolie.

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7667. Henry Cavill’s Superman Disguise Test-In 2016, British actor Henry Cavill, who played Superman in the film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, tested whether Superman’s simple disguise could work in real life. Cavill walked through Times Square in New York wearing a Superman T-shirt and stood beneath giant billboards of his own face promoting the movie. Despite the massive advertisements and crowds, no one recognized him as the actor playing Superman. Cavill later said the stunt convinced him that Clark Kent’s simple disguise, just a pair of glasses, might actually work.

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7668. America Stores Electricity In Water-The United States stores about 94 percent of its electricity in the form of pumped hydroelectric storage, which uses water reservoirs rather than conventional batteries. As of 2018, the U.S. had more than 25 gigawatts of electricity storage capacity, and roughly 94 percent of it came from pumped hydro facilities built mostly in the 1970s.

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7669. Nashville’s $1.26B Stadium Subsidy-The New Nissan Stadium, future home of the Tennessee Titans, is being built in Nashville, Tennessee, with a projected cost of $2.1 billion (as of March 2026). Of that total, $1.26 billion comes from state and local public funds, including $500 million from the state of Tennessee and $760 million in city-issued bonds. This level of taxpayer support makes it the largest public subsidy ever committed to a sports stadium in U.S. history. The 60,000-seat domed venue is scheduled to open in 2027, and will replace the Titans’ current stadium nearby.

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7670. Last Dinosaur May Be Triceratops-The last known individual dinosaur may have been a Triceratops that lived only a few thousand years before the K–Pg extinction event about 66 million years ago. In 2011, researchers studying fossil layers in Montana found a Triceratops fossil in one of the youngest rock layers known to contain dinosaur remains. So far, scientists have not found any dinosaur fossils from layers younger than the K–Pg boundary, indicating that non-avian dinosaurs disappeared at that point.

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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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