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7731. Lumumba Reduced To One Tooth-In January 1961, Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, was executed during the Congo Crisis after separatists took custody of him. Belgian police commissioner Gerard Soete later admitted that he and his brother exhumed Lumumba’s body, cut it up, and dissolved it in concentrated sulfuric acid to erase the remains. Decades later, Lumumba’s last known remains amounted to a single gold-capped tooth. Belgium returned that tooth to his family in 2022.

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7732. Little Red Schoolbook Censorship Storm-In 1969, two Danish schoolteachers, along with a psychologist, published The Little Red Schoolbook in Denmark as a blunt guide for schoolchildren on how to question authority and navigate school life. Out of roughly 200 pages, it devoted about 20 pages to sex and 30 pages to drugs, including alcohol and tobacco, alongside sections on teachers, discipline, exams, and how adults used power. The book spread quickly and got read far beyond Denmark because publishers translated it into many languages in the early 1970s, which also triggered bans and prosecutions in multiple countries. In the United Kingdom, authorities prosecuted the publisher under obscenity law, and the case ultimately reached the European Court of Human Rights.

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7733. Pytheas Claimed Arctic Thule-In about 325 B.C., a Greek geographer and explorer from Massalia, a man named Pytheas, sailed north from what is now Marseille into the Atlantic. He wrote some of the earliest surviving descriptions of Britain and the far north, including references that later writers linked to Scotland and other northern regions. Pytheas claimed he reached a place he called Thule and described phenomena like long summer days that sounded like the Arctic to later readers. When he returned, many ancient writers dismissed or doubted his account, and his original book did not survive.

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7734. Portugal’s Aljubarrota Underdog Victory-In 1385, a Portuguese force of about 6,600 men under King John I took a defensive position as Castile advanced with an army estimated around 31,000. The Portuguese used prepared ground and tight formations to blunt repeated assaults, then broke the larger force in a collapse that turned into a deadly retreat. The victory ended the 1383–1385 crisis, secured John I’s rule, and locked in the House of Aviz. It also helped preserve Portugal’s independence from Castile for the next two centuries.

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7735. Bend Blockbuster Became Field Trip-In 2024, the last Blockbuster Video store in Bend, Oregon, hosted a school field trip for first graders. Teachers brought the kids in as part of a lesson on personal heritage and what everyday life looked like when their parents and grandparents were growing up. The store used its shelves of physical movies and old-school rental setup as a living example of pre-streaming entertainment.

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7736. America’s Two Record Gas Peaks-In the United States (as of March 2026), the highest nominal average price ever recorded for a gallon of gas hit $4.22 in April 2022. The previous major peak came in July 2008, when the national average reached $4.06 per gallon.

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7737. Thermopylae Traitor Never Got Rewarded-In 480 BC, a man named Ephialtes of Trachis betrayed the Greeks at Thermopylae by showing the Persians a path around their position. Ephialtes expected a reward for his information, but he never received it. After the Greeks defeated the Persians, the Amphictyonic League offered a bounty for his death, and he fled. A man named Athenades of Trachis later killed Ephialtes for an unrelated reason, but Sparta still honored the bounty and rewarded the killer anyway.

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7738. Venus Williams Turned Down Nike-In 1994, upcoming tennis prodigy Venus Williams turned down a reported $3 million endorsement offer from Nike when she was 14 because she believed she could earn more after proving herself on the court. She waited instead of cashing in early. In 1995, she signed a reported five-year, $12 million deal with Reebok.

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7739. S. E. Hinton Hid Her Name-American novelist S. E. Hinton started writing The Outsiders when she was just 15 and published it at 18. She released the book under her initials instead of her full name because she worried male reviewers would dismiss a novel written by a young woman. The story reached shelves anyway, and the initials became part of the book’s identity.

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7740. Gandhi Used 300,000 Extras-The 1982 Gandhi movie holds the Guinness World Record for the most film extras in a single scene, using over 300,000 people. The record came from the film’s funeral sequence, where over 200,000 volunteers joined the shoot and another 94,560 contracted performers filled out the crowd. Director Richard Attenborough staged it on Delhi’s Rajpath, and most paid extras received a small fee equivalent to about 40 pence.

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  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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