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8041. Donald Herbert Awoke After Years-American firefighter Donald Herbert fell into a coma after a firefighting accident deprived him of oxygen and left him badly injured. He woke a year later unable to recognize friends or family, then slipped into a minimally conscious state that lasted more than 9 years. In 2005, he suddenly became responsive again, and one of his first questions was about his wife.

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8042. Minnesota Infantry’s Gettysburg Sacrifice-The 1st Minnesota Infantry lost 82% of its fighting strength on July 2, 1863, at the Battle of Gettysburg. Union General Winfield Scott Hancock ordered the regiment to charge a much larger Confederate force so the Union line could buy time and regroup. Of the 262 men who charged, 215 were killed, wounded, or missing within minutes.

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8043. Beatles Played Half-Empty Farewell-At the Beatles’ last stadium concert at Candlestick Park in San Francisco on August 29, 1966, about 7,000 tickets remained unsold, and the promoter lost money. The band played only 33 minutes, closing a tour marked by controversy, security fears, and growing exhaustion. No one announced it as their final paid concert at the time, but it became the last full public concert the Beatles ever performed.

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8044. Khaleesi Name Outlived Thrones-The name

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8045. American Ginseng Tempted Mountain Poachers-American ginseng is so valuable, often fetching hundreds of dollars a pound, that poachers risk jail time to steal roots from the Appalachian Mountains. In Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the trade has pushed rangers and botanists into a long fight to protect the slow-growing plant. Since 1992, National Park Service botanist Janet Rock’s lab has received more than 15,000 illegally harvested ginseng roots from park rangers, then replanted many of them back in the forest.

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8046. Cimabue Painting Saved From Trash-In June 2019, auctioneer Philomene Wolf inspected the home of a woman in her 90s in Compiegne, France, and spotted a small painting that had hung in the woman’s kitchen for years. The family had nearly thrown it away, but expert Eric Turquin later authenticated it as

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8047. Prince Rejected Ruby Rhod Costumes-American musician Prince was the original choice to play Ruby Rhod in

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8048. Turkey Point Saved American Crocodiles-A nuclear reactor’s hot-water discharge canals helped save the American crocodile by creating a round-the-clock breeding habitat in South Florida. In the 1970s, fewer than 300 American crocodiles remained in the state, but workers at Turkey Point Nuclear Generating Station found a crocodile nest in the plant’s man-made cooling canals in 1977. Florida Power & Light then began monitoring and protecting the crocodiles, and the plant’s canal system became an unlikely nursery. By 2019, about 25% of the roughly 2,000 American crocodiles living in the US called Turkey Point home.

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8049. Ligers Grow Without Genetic Brakes-Ligers receive growth-encouraging genes from their lion fathers, but their tiger mothers lack the growth-inhibiting genes that female lions normally pass on. That genetic mismatch can produce unusual gigantism in the hybrid offspring of a male lion and a female tiger. As a result, ligers can grow far larger than either parent species and may reach around 1,100 pounds.

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8050. US Nuclear Stockpile Shrunk Dramatically-The current (2026) US nuclear stockpile consists of about 3,700 warheads, with another 1,477 retired warheads awaiting dismantlement. That marks a nearly 90% reduction from 1967, when the United States reached its Cold War peak of more than 31,000 nuclear warheads.

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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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