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7771. Meth Overdose Hit 113-According to a 2007 case report, a 23-year-old man swallowed what he later estimated were 100 dose units of methamphetamine, at least 1 gram each, after a car crash because he feared police would arrest him for drug possession. He then fled on foot, fought with officers, and arrived at the hospital severely agitated, where doctors recorded a core body temperature of 45°C, or 113°F, after intubation. This was the highest reported core temperature in a case with laboratory confirmation of psychostimulant drug exposure. Despite the overdose, hyperthermia, and rhabdomyolysis, he survived and was discharged from the hospital five days later.

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7772. Ben Lear’s Yoo-Hoo March-In 1941, Lieutenant General Ben Lear was playing golf at a country club in Tennessee when a convoy of 80 U.S. Army trucks carrying 350 men from the 110th Regiment rolled past. Lear heard soldiers whistle and shout catcalls, particularly

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7773. Claudius Banned Hot Food-During the reign of Roman emperor Claudius in the first century AD, cheap taverns and food stalls gave ordinary Romans, people in lower classes, to gather, drink, and eat hot meals. Claudius saw them as a problem for public order, so he abolished them as a means of social control. He also ordered that no boiled meat or hot water be sold, and he punished people who ignored the ban.

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7774. America Already Eats Protein-In the United States, official protein guidance sets the recommended daily intake at 46 grams for an adult woman and 56 grams for an adult man, based on 0.8 grams per kilogram of body weight, or about 0.36 grams per pound. Athletes often need more, with suggested intakes rising up to 1.4 to 1.8 g/kg. Even so, an average person in the U.S.A. today consumes more protein than the basic recommendation, at about 69.8 grams a day for women and 98.3 grams for men.

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7775. Texas Gamblers Bought Lottery-In April 2023, a group of professional gamblers led by Bernard Marantelli and backed by financier Zeljko Ranogajec targeted a $95 million Lotto Texas jackpot by trying to cover nearly every possible number combination in the game. Over the three days between drawings, the operation printed about 25.8 million tickets at four locations across Texas, enough to cover roughly 99 percent of the 26 million possible combinations. They won and took the $57.8 million cash option instead of the full jackpot, and they made a profit of $20 million after taxes and expenses. This massive logistical gamble triggered outrage, investigations, and a wider scandal over how the Texas lottery had allowed the scheme to work.

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7776. Kissinger’s Rejected Nobel Return-In 1973, Henry Kissinger shared the Nobel Peace Prize with North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho for negotiating the Paris Peace Accords. The award immediately triggered outrage because the Vietnam War was still raging, two Norwegian Nobel Committee members resigned in protest, and critics mocked the decision as the

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7777. Japan’s Smell Harassment Culture-In Japan, the term スメハラ, or

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7778. Canada’s Billion-Dollar Phoenix Failure-In 2009, Canada launched a plan to replace its 40-year-old federal payroll system with Phoenix, an automated commercial platform meant to cut labor costs and save about $70 million a year. IBM won the contract in June 2011, and the government rolled the system out across departments in 2016 even after warnings about critical problems and weak testing. Instead of delivering savings, Phoenix triggered years of underpayments, overpayments, missed paychecks, and a massive backlog that hit hundreds of thousands of public servants. As of June 2025, the system had cost the Canadian government more than $5.1 billion.

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7779. Minions Re-Dubbed Worldwide-Even though the Minions speak a fictional language called

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7780. Lucien Bersot’s Bloody Trousers-In 1915, a French soldier named Lucien Bersot served on the front during World War I when his unit was ordered back into the trenches after heavy losses. Quartermasters could not find him a proper pair of uniform trousers, so they handed him a bloodstained pair taken from a dead soldier. Bersot refused to wear them, and his commanding officer treated the refusal as an act of disobedience. The officer had him court-martialed and executed by firing squad to make an example of him.

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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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