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7681. Ioannis Ikonomou’s 21 Languages-As of March 2026, Greek translator Ioannis Ikonomou serves as the Chief Translator of the European Commission and is known for speaking 21 of the European Union’s 24 official languages. Because of his unusual linguistic range, he has also been entrusted with translating highly sensitive Chinese documents for the Commission. Ikonomou has said that Chinese is his favorite language, but he also considers it the most complicated he has studied.

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7682. Japan’s 33,000 Century Companies-Japan has more than 33,000 companies that have operated for over 100 years, making it the country with the largest number of centuries-old businesses in the world. These long-standing firms are often referred to as

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7683. Kaiser Wilhelm’s War Outburs-German Emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II was on vacation when World War I began in 1914. When he returned to Berlin and learned how events had escalated after the ultimatum to Serbia, he angrily confronted German Chancellor Theobald von Bethmann Hollweg, asking how the crisis had spiraled into war. Bethmann Hollweg offered his resignation in response to the emperor’s outrage. Wilhelm refused to accept it and reportedly told him, “You’ve made this stew, now you’re going to eat it.”

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7684. Saudi Arabia’s Hormuz Bypass Pipeline-In 1981, Saudi Arabia built the 1,200-kilometer East–West Crude Oil Pipeline, which runs from the Persian Gulf to ports on the Red Sea. The pipeline was designed to allow Saudi oil exports to bypass the Strait of Hormuz, a narrow shipping route that could be blocked during regional conflicts.

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7685. Strauss & Howe Name Millennials-The term “Millennials” was coined in 1991 by American historians William Strauss and Neil Howe while researching patterns of American generational cycles. They introduced the name in their book Generations, referring to the cohort expected to come of age around the year 2000. At the time, most people in that generation were still children, and many had not yet finished high school. Strauss and Howe predicted that Millennials would eventually become “the next Greatest Generation.”

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7686. Boston Tea Party $2.3M Loss-The tea destroyed during the Boston Tea Party on December 16, 1773, had an estimated value equivalent to about $2.3 million in today’s money. That night, members of the Sons of Liberty boarded three British ships in Boston Harbor and dumped 342 chests of tea into the water to protest the Tea Act and British taxation.

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7687. NYU Study: Seamless Code-Switching-When bilingual people switch languages mid-sentence, a practice known as code-switching, the brain does not treat the shift as unusual. Researchers at New York University found that the brain uses the same mechanism to combine words regardless of whether they come from one language or two. Their study showed that bilingual speakers process mixed-language sentences using the same neural system that builds sentences in a single language. This suggests that code-switching is neurologically seamless for bilingual brains.

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7688. Singapore’s Ethnic Housing Policy-Singapore has an official Ethnic Integration Policy (EIP) that regulates the ethnic composition of public housing estates. Introduced in 1989, the policy sets limits on how many units in each Housing and Development Board (HDB) block and neighborhood can be owned by households from specific ethnic groups. The system was designed to prevent the formation of ethnic enclaves and encourage daily interaction among Chinese, Malay, Indian, and other communities in the city-state.

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7689. Henry VI’s 18-Month Stupor-In 1453, King Henry VI of England fell into a catatonic stupor that lasted about 18 months. The episode began shortly after England suffered a major military defeat in the Hundred Years’ War, and Henry became unable to speak, move, or respond to people around him. During this period he reportedly failed to react even when his newborn son, Edward of Westminster, was presented to him. Historians believe the illness may have been inherited from his maternal grandfather, Charles VI of France, who experienced similar episodes of mental instability.

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7690. Female Orangutan Murder Alliance-In 2016, researchers in Borneo observed a female orangutan enlist a male to help attack and kill another female, marking the first recorded case of a female orangutan killing another female. During the encounter, the attacking female repeatedly assaulted the victim while the male restrained her, allowing the attack to continue for more than half an hour. Scientists described the cooperation as highly unusual, since orangutan violence rarely involves coordinated attacks.

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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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