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7941. Eminem Became Too Heavy Recognize-American rapper Eminem overdosed in 2007 and, during his struggle with prescription drugs, he gained weight, at one point reaching 230 pounds, or about 100 kg, before he got sober. The change made him so unrecognizable that he once overheard two teenagers arguing over whether they were really looking at him. One of them dismissed the idea with a simple line:

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7942. Katherine Heigl Rejected Emmy Consideration-In 2007, American actress Katherine Heigl won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama for playing Izzie Stevens on

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7943. Krakatoa Broke The Sound Scale-In 1883, Krakatoa erupted in Indonesia with a blast estimated at 310 decibels, making it one of the loudest sounds ever recorded in history. That number sits far above 194 decibels, the usual maximum sound limit in air before pressure waves stop behaving like ordinary sound.

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7944. Notre Dame Bees Survived Fire-In 2019, about 180,000 bees living in three hives on Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris survived the fire that destroyed the cathedral's spire and much of its roof. Beekeepers later confirmed that the hives had stayed intact, and because bees do not have lungs and breathe through tiny tubes called tracheae, the smoke did not choke them the way it would choke humans. Instead, the smoke calmed them, and they stayed inside the hives until the danger passed.

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7945. Ghana Imports Dead Man Clothes-Ghana is one of the world's biggest importers of secondhand clothing, where many locals call the imported garments

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7946. ALF Ended In Government Custody-In 1990, the sitcom

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7947. Ötzi Emerged From Alpine Ice-In 1991 , hikers in the Alps found a 5,300 year old man naturally preserved in ice near the border of Austria and Italy . Scientists later studied the remains of Ötzi , and found that his last meal was ibex meat and grains . They also found more than 60 soot tattoos around his joints and spine, along with his copper axe, flint knife, fire-starting kit, and grass cloak.

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7948. Wendy Brown Became School Cheerleader-In 2008, a 33-year-old Wisconsin woman named Wendy Brown stole her daughter's identity and enrolled at Ashwaubenon High School. She said she wanted to get her high school diploma and join the cheerleading squad. Brown reportedly attended cheerleading practices, received a cheerleader's locker, and went to a pool party at the cheerleading coach's house before authorities uncovered the deception.

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7949. E. Coli Linked To Cancer-In 2025, researchers linked the rise of colon cancer in adults under 50 to early-life exposure to colibactin, a DNA-damaging toxin made by certain strains of E. coli and related gut bacteria. The study found colibactin-linked mutations more often in tumors from younger colorectal cancer patients, and researchers said the damage may begin in the first 10 years of life.

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7950. Meat Loaf Shadowed David Fincher-During the making of

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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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