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7671. Rahma Haruna’s Bucket Life-Rahma Haruna was a Nigerian girl born around 1996 or 1997 whose body stopped developing when she was about six months old. Her arms and legs failed to grow properly after an unexplained illness, leaving her unable to walk or crawl and forcing her family to carry her in a plastic bucket because she could not sit or move normally. Doctors never identified the exact condition despite years of treatment attempts by her family. Haruna died in 2016 at the age of 19.

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7672. Perfidy: Fake Surrender War Crime-Perfidy is the deceptive wartime tactic of pretending to surrender, feigning injury or death, or misusing protected symbols to lure and attack an enemy. The practice violates the laws of armed conflict because it abuses the trust granted under humanitarian protections during war. The Geneva Conventions and their Additional Protocols explicitly prohibit perfidy and classify it as a war crime.

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7673. Post-Micturition Convulsion Syndrome Explained-Piss shivers have a technical name, post-micturition convulsion syndrome (PMCS). The phenomenon refers to the brief, involuntary shiver some people experience during or immediately after urinating. Scientists believe it may happen because the autonomic nervous system switches control between its sympathetic and parasympathetic branches, which regulate bladder function and blood pressure. However, the reaction is not universal, meaning many people never experience it at all.

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7674. Bonn-Oberkassel Puppy Nursed By Humans-A 14,000-year-old puppy discovered at the Bonn-Oberkassel burial site in Germany survived canine distemper, an illness that usually kills infected dogs within a few weeks. Researchers studying its teeth concluded the puppy must have been cared for by humans for several weeks while it was sick, since it would not have survived the disease on its own. The discovery suggests that Stone Age humans nursed the puppy through the illness and later buried it alongside them when it died.

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7675. John F. Kennedy Jr Crash-The plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister Lauren Bessette occurred on July 16, 1999, near Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. Investigators concluded the crash was caused by spatial disorientation after Kennedy lost control of the aircraft while flying over dark water in hazy night conditions. Kennedy was not certified to fly solely by instruments, yet he continued the flight in deteriorating visibility and did not request a weather briefing or file a flight plan before departure. The plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean, killing all three passengers instantly.

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7676. Macklemore’s Independent #1 Hit-In 2013, the song “Thrift Shop” by American rapper Macklemore and producer Ryan Lewis reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 despite being released independently without a major record label. The track was distributed through the duo’s own label and gained popularity through online sales, streaming, and heavy radio play. At the time, it became only the second independently released song in history to reach #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

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7677. Thucydides’ Melian Dialogue Warning-The phrase “the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must” appears in Greek historian Thucydides’ account of the Melian Dialogue during the Peloponnesian War in 416 BC. In the dialogue, Athenian envoys warned the neutral island of Melos that it must submit to Athenian rule or face destruction, arguing that power, not justice, decides outcomes in war. The Melians refused to surrender and chose to resist despite the overwhelming Athenian force. Athens later captured the island, executed the adult men, and enslaved the women and children.

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7678. Admiral Matome Ugaki’s Final Kamikaze-Japanese admiral Matome Ugaki, who commanded kamikaze operations during the Battle of Okinawa in 1945, personally flew on one of the final suicide missions of the war. After Emperor Hirohito announced Japan’s surrender on August 15, 1945, Ugaki refused to accept the decision and organized one last kamikaze sortie. That evening he boarded a Yokosuka D4Y “Judy” dive bomber and took off with several volunteers on a suicide mission toward American ships near Okinawa. The aircraft never returned, and Ugaki was presumed killed in the attack.

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7679. Central African Citizenship: 35 Years-The Central African Republic’s nationality law sets extremely strict requirements for foreigners seeking citizenship. Applicants must live in the country for 35 years before becoming eligible for naturalization. They must also meet additional conditions, such as owning land or receiving a national honor from the government.

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7680. Philibert Aspairt Catacombs Death-Only one known person is recorded to have died in the Catacombs of Paris (as of 2025). In 1793, a hospital porter named Philibert Aspairt entered the underground tunnels beneath the city and became lost. It is believed he lost his light source and wandered in the darkness until he died. His body was discovered in 1804, just a few meters from a staircase that led to an exit.

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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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