Fact Cards

7761. Kathryn Jones’s Lost Jackpot-In November 2012, a Canadian woman named Kathryn Jones bought a Lotto Max ticket in Ontario, then lost it and forgot about it. After the ticket went unclaimed, Ontario Lottery and Gaming investigators traced her through credit card proof of purchase, store surveillance footage, and in-person interviews to confirm that she had bought the winning ticket. Officials showed up at her door in 2013 and told her she had won the $50 million jackpot. Jones learned the news just 48 hours before the filing deadline.

Source

7762. Shaquille O'Neal’s Business Empire-As of April 2026, basketball legend Shaquille O'Neal had a net worth of $400 million, had developed major skyscrapers in Newark, New Jersey, and had once been a minority owner of the Sacramento Kings. He also owns 150 car washes, 40 health clubs, a movie theater in Newark, and the Big Chicken restaurant brand.

Source

7763. Haing Ngor’s Fatal Silence-Cambodian OB-GYN Haing S. Ngor survived the Khmer Rouge after 1975 by hiding his medical education, his professional skills, and even the fact that he wore glasses because the regime targeted intellectuals and professionals. In 1978, after the Khmer Rouge expelled him from Phnom Penh and sent him to a rice farm, his wife, Chang My-Huoy, went into labor and needed a cesarean section. Ngor knew how to perform the operation, but doing so would have exposed his training and could have gotten his entire family killed. His wife and their unborn child died during labor, and Ngor later escaped Cambodia, moved to the United States in 1980, and eventually won an Academy Award for starring in The Killing Fields in 1984.

Source

7764. Green Day’s Stolen Masters-After the rock band Green Day finished recording an album called Cigarettes and Valentines in 2003, someone stole the master tapes from the band's studio. The band could have rebuilt the record from backups, but bassist Mike Dirnt later said it did not feel the same as the originals. They instead chose to record a new batch of songs they thought were stronger. That decision led directly to American Idiot, the 2004 rock opera that became one of the biggest albums of their career.

Source

7765. Jesse Livermore Cornered Cotton-In 1891, a boy named Jesse Livermore ran away from home with his mother’s blessing after his father pulled him out of school, and he started working in Boston posting stock quotes for $5 a week. By age 15, he had already made his first market profit, and over the next decades he built a reputation for reading price movements so well that he became one of Wall Street’s most famous speculators. After World War I, Livermore secretly cornered the U.S. cotton market, and President Woodrow Wilson summoned him to the White House after the Secretary of Agriculture warned that the move could drive prices dangerously higher. Livermore agreed to unwind the position at break-even, and years later, during the 1929 crash, he made about $100 million, even though he eventually lost that fortune and died with debts greater than his assets.

Source

7766. Blood River Lake Disaster-During filming for The Pirates of Blood River in 1961, the stunt professionals refused to perform a scene that required the pirate actors to wade through a lake. Director John Gilling pushed ahead anyway, so the actors did the scene themselves. Christopher Lee later said Michael Ripper nearly drowned, that he survived only because his 6-foot-4 height kept him above the water, and that Oliver Reed ended up hospitalized with an eye infection.

Source

7767. Sam Dutcher’s Runaway Honda-On September 17, 2024, an 18-year-old man named Sam Dutcher was driving a 2022 Honda Pilot in North Dakota when the car malfunctioned and began accelerating on its own. Dutcher tried to shut the vehicle off, brake, and use the emergency brake, but nothing worked, and the Honda hit 113 mph as it carried him across state lines into Minnesota during a terrifying 20-minute drive. Deputies and troopers stayed on the phone with him, tried other ways to stop the SUV, and finally decided on a controlled collision before the road ended at a dead end. A Minnesota State Trooper got in front of the Honda; Dutcher struck the rear of the patrol car on purpose, and the maneuver brought both vehicles to a safe stop without serious injuries.

Source

7768. Franklin Warned About Lead-In 1786, American inventor and statesman Benjamin Franklin wrote a letter warning a friend about the hazards of lead and lead paint. His warning came at a time when white lead paint was still widely used, even though the dangers were already known to some people. The United States did not ban lead in household paint until 1978, almost 200 years later.

Source

7769. PS4 Roach Motel Problem-By 2017, independent console repair shops were warning that the PlayStation 4 had become a favorite hiding place for cockroaches. Repair technicians found that the PS4's wider ventilation grates, low vent placement, and hotter internal power supply made it easier for roaches to get inside and nest than in other consoles. Repairmen claimed that at least half of the PS4s they received were loaded with roaches.

Source

7770. Pilt Carin Blocked Stockholm-In 1833, a Swedish milk vendor named Pilt Carin Ersdotter arrived in Stockholm and began selling milk after being judged too weak for boat work. Her looks drew such huge crowds that people reportedly gathered just to stare at her, and one day the crush became so large that she had to flee into a nearby house. Authorities then arrested her for creating a traffic obstruction and for having

Source

Sign up to our Newsletter & get

FREE!! 1000 Facts E-BOOK

We don’t spam! Read our privacy policy for more info.

- Sponsored Links -

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.

    1094
  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…

    1096
  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.

    11
    • 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.

      10
  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.

    18
  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?

    5
    • 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.

      6
  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!

    1224
    • 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).

      7
  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.

    1182
  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.

    1270
  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!

    5
  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

    1115
  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.

    1

LEAVE A REPLY

Please enter your comment!
Please enter your name here