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7691. 1917 Medal Of Honor Purge-In 1917, the U.S. Army’s Medal of Honor Review Board revoked 911 previously awarded Medals of Honor after raising the standards required for the decoration. Many of the rescinded medals had been granted during the American Civil War, often for actions such as reenlisting rather than for extraordinary combat heroism. Only a small number of the revoked medals were later restored.

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7692. Bern And Basel Swimming Commute-The rivers in the Swiss cities of Bern and Basel are clean enough that some locals actually commute by swimming. In summer, people jump into the Aare River in Bern or the Rhine in Basel, letting the current carry them downstream toward home or work. Many swimmers place their clothes and belongings in waterproof dry bags so they stay dry while floating along the river.

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7693. Patan Kumari’s 31-Year Reign-In Nepal, young girls known as Kumari are worshiped as living goddesses until they reach puberty, when they are traditionally replaced after their first menstruation. One Kumari of Patan, chosen in 1953, never began menstruating and therefore remained in the role for more than three decades. She served as the goddess until 1984, when authorities removed her and appointed a successor despite her objections.

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7694. Swiss Sewage Gold Discovery-Switzerland’s sewage system contains millions of dollars worth of precious metals each year, including gold and silver. A 2017 study of 64 wastewater treatment plants estimated that about 6,600 pounds of silver and nearly 100 pounds of gold pass through Swiss sewage annually. Much of the gold originates from gold-refining operations. In most places the metals are too widely dispersed to recover economically.

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7695. Aldyn-ool Sevek’s Unmatched Voice-Tuvan throat singer Aldyn-ool Sevek was renowned for producing a style of overtone singing that other performers struggled to imitate. A master of the Mongolian and Tuvan throat-singing tradition, he was widely respected for the unusual depth and clarity of his voice. Fellow musicians often described his sound as virtually impossible to reproduce. Sevek died of throat cancer in 2011.

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7696. John Robert Gregg’s Speed Writing-Gregg shorthand is a handwriting system designed to be written faster than normal longhand or typing. Developed by American educator John Robert Gregg in 1888, the system uses simple curves and strokes to represent sounds rather than letters. Shorthand writers skilled in it can record speech extremely quickly, and some masters have reached speeds of around 280 words per minute.

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7697. Nikolai Vavilov’s Crop Mimicry-Some weeds have evolved to mimic the crops they grow among, making them harder for farmers to detect and remove. When farmers repeatedly pull out the obvious weeds, they unintentionally select for plants that look more like the crop, allowing those look-alikes to survive and reproduce. Over generations, this process can make the weed increasingly resemble the cultivated plant. The phenomenon is known as Vavilovian mimicry, named after Russian botanist Nikolai Vavilov, who first described it.

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7698. Kevin Kelley’s No-Punt Strategy-American high school football coach Kevin Kelley of Pulaski Academy in Little Rock, Arkansas, adopted an unusually aggressive strategy that almost never involved punting. Instead, his team frequently attempted fourth-down conversions and regularly tried onside kicks whenever the score was within 21 points. Kelley believed keeping possession gave his team better odds than giving the ball away. The approach proved successful, as Pulaski Academy won nine Arkansas state championships, including four consecutive titles from 2014 to 2017 (as of March 2026).

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7699. Lambert Simnel’s Kitchen Fate-In 1487, a young boy claimed to be Edward Plantagenet, the Yorkist heir to the English throne, during the reign of King Henry VII. Backed by Yorkist supporters, the boy was crowned “King Edward VI” in Dublin, Ireland, and became the figurehead of a rebellion against the Tudor king. The uprising ended after Henry VII’s forces defeated the rebels at the Battle of Stoke Field, widely considered the last battle of the Wars of the Roses. Because of the boy’s young age, Henry pardoned him and put him to work in the royal kitchens, and the pretender’s real name remains unknown even today.

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7700. South Africa’s Identical Puppies-All puppies from the same litter are technically fraternal twins because each develops from a separate egg fertilized by a different sperm. Identical twins in dogs are extremely rare, and the first scientifically confirmed case involved two Irish wolfhound puppies born in South Africa. Veterinarian Kurt de Cramer discovered the twins during a Caesarean section when he noticed they shared a single placenta. DNA testing later confirmed the puppies were genetically identical.

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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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