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8061. Jack Keyes Ended Beer Record-In 1989,

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8062. France Barely Spoke French Once-As recently as 1794, most people in France did not speak fluent French, and only about 11% of the population used it fluently. Instead, many people spoke regional languages such as Occitan, Breton, Alsatian, and others tied to local identity. French became the majority language later as the state pushed heavy assimilation efforts across the country.

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8063. Coca-Cola MagiCans Poisoned Promotion-Coca-Cola once made “MagiCans” that secretly held cash prizes instead of soda, but the company had to stop people from spotting winners by weight. To disguise them, Coca-Cola filled part of the cans with foul-smelling chlorinated liquid. The promotion lasted only three weeks before it was canceled after some people accidentally drank the liquid.

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8064. Newborns Hear Every Language First-Newborns can distinguish the sounds used across the world’s languages, including about 600 consonants and 200 vowels. During the first year, their brains start tuning themselves to the sounds they hear most in their native language. By their first birthday, they lose sensitivity to many unused sounds, which helps explain why adult language learners often keep a foreign accent.

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8065. Iodized Salt Prevents Brain Damage-Iodized salt is one of the world’s most cost-effective public health interventions, costing about $0.05 per person per year. It prevents iodine deficiency, the leading preventable cause of intellectual disabilities, which affects roughly 2 billion people worldwide. The same simple fortification helped eliminate endemic goiter in countries such as the United States and Switzerland.

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8066. Idris Elba Hid English Accent-While auditioning for

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8067. Akon City Became Abandoned Dream-In 2018, Senegalese-American singer Akon announced

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8068. Sri Lankan Handball Team Vanished-Since 1993, Sri Lankan sports teams have been linked to 47 incidents of athletes disappearing during overseas trips. The most famous case came in 2004, when a 23-man

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8069. Orcas Offer Humans Their Food-Researchers have documented 34 cases (as of 2026) of wild orcas offering food to humans, including fish, birds, and stingrays. The whales approached people with prey and appeared to share it, giving researchers a rare look at how orcas may test social behavior outside their own species. Scientists still do not know exactly why they do it.

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8070. German Scientists Missed Atomic Bomb-During World War II, Germany’s nuclear researchers never seriously pursued building nuclear weapons and doubted whether such weapons were even possible. After Germany surrendered, physicist Werner Heisenberg and other scientists were secretly recorded while under house arrest at Farm Hall in England. When they heard about the bombing of Hiroshima in 1945, they reacted with shock.

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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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