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8181. Zephany Nurse’s Schoolyard Family Reunion-In 1997, a three-day-old baby named Zephany Nurse was kidnapped from a hospital in Cape Town by a woman dressed in a nurse’s uniform. For 17 years, her biological parents kept searching for her while raising their other children. In 2015, Zephany became close friends with a new student at school who looked strangely similar to her. That student turned out to be her younger biological sister, and DNA testing finally reunited Zephany with the family.

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8182. Michelangelo’s Hidden Medici Chapel Room-After the last Republic of Florence fell to the Medici in 1530, Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo went into hiding for about three months. Nobody knew exactly where he had disappeared until 1975, when workers discovered a hidden chamber beneath the Medici mausoleum in Florence. The room measured about 6.5 feet, or 2 meters, wide, and its walls contained sketches attributed to Michelangelo.

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8183. Chester County’s Mushroom Capital Industry-A single county in Pennsylvania produces over 60 percent of the mushrooms grown in the United States. Kennett Square in Chester County is known as the “Mushroom Capital of the World.” The area grows white button, portabella, shiitake, and many other specialty varieties. Its mushroom industry began in the late 19th century, when a Quaker florist used empty greenhouse space to grow mushrooms from spawn imported from England. By the 1920s, European immigrants helped turn the local farms into a major commercial industry, and Chester County now has more than 2,000 mushroom-growing houses.

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8184. Moroccan Fossil Became Prehistoric Trinket-A 300,000 to 200,000-year-old cuttlefish fossil was found in eastern Morocco in a region where that type of fossil was not native. A German university researcher discovered the 70 mm long fossil fragment in 1984 among a dense cluster of stone tools. Researchers found no signs of carving or shaping, but the fossil naturally resembled a life-size, non-erect human phallus. Because of that shape and its unusual location, the leading interpretation suggests prehistoric humans may have carried it back to camp as a trinket due to its looks.

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8185. Caroline Newton’s Nose-Biting Defense-In 1837, a British woman named Caroline Newton bit off part of Thomas Saverland’s nose after he tried to kiss her without her consent. Saverland took her to court, but the jury acquitted Newton after hearing that he had grabbed her and tried to kiss her during a scuffle. The judge said a man who kisses a woman against her will leaves her entitled to bite off his nose if she chooses.

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8186. Moneymaker And Gamble Beat Poker-In 2003, an amateur poker player named Chris Moneymaker won the World Series of Poker Main Event, with help from his friend Dave Gamble, who backed part of his trip to the tournament. Moneymaker had qualified through an $86 online satellite and entered the $10,000 championship in Las Vegas as an unknown player. He beat professional poker player Sam Farha heads-up and won $2.5 million. The names made the story even stranger, because Moneymaker and Gamble were both their real last names.

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8187. Crosswalk Buttons Became Placebo Controls-Many major cities have disabled thousands of crosswalk buttons but keep them installed anyway because removing them costs too much. In New York City, only about 100 of roughly 1,000 crosswalk buttons reportedly still work. The rest remained in place as “placebo buttons,” giving pedestrians the feeling that they could speed up the signal even though the traffic lights ran on automated timers.

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8188. Doodler Sketched Victims Before Murder-The Doodler was an unidentified serial killer in San Francisco who killed at least five men between January 1974 and September 1975. He reportedly met men at gay bars and nightclubs, sketched them, then lured them to beaches or secluded areas and stabbed them. Three victims survived, but they refused to testify because they feared being publicly outed as gay. Police had a suspect, but without testimony from the survivors, prosecutors could not bring the case to trial.

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8189. UK Driver Avoided License Seventy Years-A UK man drove for more than 70 years without a driver’s license or insurance before police finally pulled him over in his 80s. Nottinghamshire Police stopped him in January 2022 after automatic number plate recognition cameras flagged his Mini One. He told officers he had been driving since he was 12 and had never held a license or insurance. Police said he had never been in an accident, caused anyone an injury, or made anyone lose money by hitting them while uninsured.

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8190. Doctor Who’s Lost Christmas Episode-Doctor Who’s first ever Christmas episode, “The Feast of Steven,” is one of the few missing episodes considered almost certainly lost for good. The episode aired on December 25, 1965, as episode seven of the 12-part serial The Daleks’ Master Plan. Unlike many missing Doctor Who episodes that survived through copies sold overseas, “The Feast of Steven” was apparently never recorded for foreign sale. After the BBC junked the original tape, no known copy remained, leaving only its audio and production records behind.

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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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