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8111. Christina's Corner Saved Movie Rituals-After a video rental store in Pocatello, Idaho, closed its doors, a woman named Christina Bennington, who has Down syndrome and is mostly nonverbal, lost a routine she had followed for years. Christina loved renting movies, and her family worried about how the closure would affect her. To help, a nearby convenience store created a video rental section called

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8112. Li Jingwei's Memory Map Reunion-In 1989, a 4-year-old Chinese boy named Li Jingwei was kidnapped by a neighbor who lured him away by promising to show him cars, a rare sight in his rural village. Li never forgot the layout of his home village, even after growing up far from his birth family. At age 37, he drew a map from memory and posted it online, hoping someone would recognize the place. The map helped authorities identify the village and reunite Li with his family decades after his abduction.

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8113. FDA Sunscreen Rules Stalled Since-The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has not significantly updated its sunscreen regulations since 1999 (as of June 2026), even as sunscreen technology has advanced in other parts of the world. As a result, many newer UV-filter ingredients used internationally remain unavailable in the United States. Of the 16 active sunscreen ingredients currently marketed in the U.S., the FDA considers only two, zinc oxide and titanium dioxide, to be generally recognized as safe and effective.

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8114. Édouard Scott Never Heard Recording-In 1860, French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville created what is now considered the oldest known recording of a human voice. His invention, the phonautograph, could capture sound waves as visual tracings on paper, but it had no method of playing them back as audio. As a result, Scott never heard the recording he made, which included the French song

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8115. The Onion Skipped September 11-On September 11, 2001, The Onion did not publish its scheduled print newspaper. The staff also skipped the following issue, and employees took a week-long break as they struggled with whether satire had any place after the tragedy. Some staffers reportedly threatened to quit if the publication released an issue about the attacks. The Onion eventually returned with a September 26, 2001, issue that addressed 9/11 through dark satire.

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8116. Mary Ann Franco Regained Sight-In 1993, a woman named Mary Ann Franco lost her vision after a severe car accident and also suffered a stroke. Twenty-three years later, she tripped over tiles in her Florida home, fell, and needed surgery on her spine. When Franco woke up after the operation, she could fully see again. Doctors could not fully explain if the fall or the surgery restored her vision.

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8117. Neanderthal Child Had Down Syndrome-In 2024, archaeologists studying ancient remains in Spain identified the skeleton of a 6-year-old Neanderthal child who had Down syndrome. Researchers reached the conclusion after analyzing a small bone from the inner ear and finding abnormalities associated with the condition. The child lived more than 100,000 years ago and would likely have required significant care because of related health problems.

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8118. AI Found Hidden Sperm Cells-After trying to conceive for 20 years, a couple endured multiple IVF attempts and surgeries without success. The husband had azoospermia, a condition in which sperm cells are extremely difficult or impossible to find in semen samples using conventional methods. Researchers used a new AI-guided robotic system that scanned about 2.5 million microscopic images from a single sample and identified the only two viable sperm cells hidden within it. Doctors used those cells for fertility treatment, successfully initiating a pregnancy.

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8119. Mount Erebus Erupts Gold Dust-Mount Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica, releases tiny crystals of gold into the atmosphere every day. Scientists studying the volcano discovered that gases rising from its persistent lava lake carry microscopic particles of crystallized gold into the air. The wind can carry these extremely small particles, which measure less than a fraction of a millimeter, for hundreds of miles. Researchers estimate that Mount Erebus ejects enough gold each day to be worth thousands of dollars.

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8120. Aphids Reproduce Through Telescoping Generations-Aphids are among the most destructive agricultural pests in the world, largely because of their extraordinary reproductive abilities. Many aphid species can reproduce asexually through live birth, allowing females to produce offspring without mating. Their gestation period can be as short as about a week, and they also exhibit

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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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