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7831. Jim Carrey Rejected “The Mask II”-In a 1995 Barbara Walters interview, Jim Carrey said he received a $10 million offer to star in

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7832. Ottawa’s 390 MHz Garage Jam-For 10 days in 2005, garage door openers across Ottawa stopped working over a roughly 25-mile radius. Technicians traced it to strong interference near 390 MHz that overwhelmed many openers’ signals. People suspected the U.S. Embassy or the Canadian military, but both denied it, and the transmissions later ended suddenly without an explanation.

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7833. Max Linder Recovered in an Oven-French film star Max Linder nearly died of cholera as a child in rural France. His family treated him by having him rest inside the village baker’s oven to keep him warm while he recovered. The bizarre home remedy worked, and Linder survived.

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7834. Columbia Search Found Challenger Pieces-After Space Shuttle Columbia broke up in 2003, investigators launched a massive search to recover debris across the U.S. During the cleanup, officials announced a three-day amnesty that promised no prosecution for people who had taken shuttle pieces. That deal worked so well that some private citizens turned in debris from the Space Shuttle Challenger too, even though it had been lost 17 years earlier.

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7835. Owls Survive 270-Degree Turns-Owls cannot move their eyes in their sockets, so they must turn their heads to change their view. Evolution armed them with 14 neck vertebrae and a network of backup arteries to keep blood flowing when they twist. They also have blood vessels that can swell like sponges, which helps regulate circulation and reduce stroke risk during extreme movement. Together, those adaptations let an owl rotate its head up to about 270 degrees without cutting off its brain’s blood supply.

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7836. Neutron Stars Hide “Nuclear Pasta”-Inside neutron stars, extreme pressure may force nuclear matter into strange shapes that scientists call “nuclear pasta.” Models predict the material can form structures nicknamed

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7837. Middle Juba Has Lowest HDI-The Global Human Development Index does not just rank countries; it also ranks subnational regions. Middle Juba in Somalia sits at the very bottom of the HDI list with 0.230.

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7838. Chimpanzees Eat Fermented “Booze”-Researchers have found that wild chimpanzees can ingest the equivalent of about 2.5 alcoholic drinks per day by eating naturally fermented fruit. The finding lines up with the “drunken monkey” hypothesis, which argues that primates, including early human ancestors, evolved to tolerate and even seek low levels of alcohol because it signaled ripe, calorie-rich food.

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7839. R. L. Stine’s Goosebumps Flood-Between 1992 and 2000, R. L. Stine turned

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7840. Viking’s 245-Day World Cruise-As of April 2026, Viking Ocean Cruises markets its “Ultimate World Cruise,

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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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