| 2025-04-17 | Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral in France was built entirely using black lava stone. | 0:00 | 20 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | UK prisons have restaurants run by inmates, open to the public, and some rank high on TripAdvisor. | 0:00 | 1,411 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | In 1914, a man failed to kill Archduke Franz Ferdinand, then botched his suicide attempt. | 0:00 | 23 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Switzerland could fit 114% of its population into bunkers in case of an emergency. | 0:00 | 8 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Tom Hanks turned down Andy Dufresne in The Shawshank Redemption to star in Forrest Gump. | 0:00 | 8 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Tom Hanks intentionally gained 50 pounds to film the first half of Cast Away. | 0:00 | 16 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | The splash from a toilet when poop hits the water is called “Poseidon’s Kiss.” | 0:00 | 36 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | The US military had been using drone technology during WWII. | 0:00 | 3,048 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Sea wolves in British Columbia swim miles daily for food, with 90% of their diet from the sea. | 0:00 | 1,499 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Treadmills were originally a punishment device, using human power to grind grains. | 0:00 | 8 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Ten days before his death, Freddie Mercury told his manager, Don’t make me boring about his legacy. | 0:00 | 52 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | A Spanish civil servant skipped work for six years, discovered when given an award. | 0:00 | 78 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Arizona’s “Stupid Motorist Law” fines drivers who bypass barricades and get stuck in floods. | 0:00 | 22 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Zippers are the single most common cause of penile injury in U.S. adults. | 0:00 | 33 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Larger crocodiles can go for over a year without eating a meal. | 0:00 | 16 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | In Mao Zedong's China, there was an experiment called "The Hundred Flowers Campaign." | 0:00 | 25 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Jim Carrey was the first actor to have three films go straight to number one in the same year. | 0:00 | 2,966 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, had 140,000 people, pyramids, canals, and floating gardens. | 0:00 | 17 | |
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| 2025-04-16 | VanMoof reduced bike damage by 80% by placing images of expensive TVs on their boxes. | 0:00 | 19 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Woman sued Keanu Reeves in 2009, claiming he fathered her kids—DNA proved he wasn’t the dad. | 0:00 | 23 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Some fish eggs survive being eaten by ducks and hatch after being pooped out in water. | 0:00 | 266 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | In 1976, a Princeton junior wrote a paper on building a nuclear bomb. The FBI seized it. | 0:00 | 29 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | The Titanic’s band played as the ship sank to calm passengers. All members perished. | 0:00 | 68 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | In South America, jaguars gnaw caapi roots to hallucinate—it’s common and observable behavior. | 0:00 | 3 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Parents of newborns lose about six months of sleep during the first two years. | 0:00 | 8 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | The ‘Double Tree of Casorzo’ in Italy is a cherry tree growing on top of a mulberry tree. | 0:00 | 2 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Paul McCartney decided not to tell his wife Linda that she was dying as her cancer progressed. | 0:00 | 9 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | The Dracula parrot, with a parrot’s body and vulture’s head, is vulnerable due to overhunting. | 0:00 | 3 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | In 1960, an Australian man won over $3 million in the lottery. | 0:00 | 1 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Steven Phillips spent 24 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. | 0:00 | 5 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | The fur of Chinchilla is so thick and soft that fleas will suffocate if they try to live there. | 0:00 | 5 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Due to its isolated location, the Icelandic language has changed very little from its original roots | 0:00 | 6 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Donations to science have doubled in 10 years due to high funeral costs, with cremation returns. | 0:00 | 12 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | A Chinese woman missing for ten years and presumed dead was found living at an internet cafe. | 0:00 | 9 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Salzburg initially refused Nazi flags for Sound of Music, but relented after a director threat. | 0:00 | 4 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Before capture, El Chapo dined in restaurants, paid tabs, and took phones. #ElChapo | 0:00 | 3 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | In 1875, 12.5T locusts devoured the Great Plains, even eating clothes off farmers. #Plague | 0:00 | 1,629 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | No one believed Big Bird about Snuffy for 14 yrs—then they made him real. #SesameStreet | 0:00 | 4 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | There is a sport call Archery Tag that is basically like dodgeball, but with foam-tipped arrows. | 0:00 | 1,082 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Cheese aged with hip-hop music had the boldest flavor, study finds. #Sound | 0:00 | 10 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | In 2013, a spoof soap opera was filmed in IKEA without the store's knowledge. | 0:00 | 11 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Andreas Mihavecz survived 18 days with no food or water after being forgotten in jail. #Survival | 0:00 | 1,880 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | A Florida man used a phone jammer on commutes, got fined $48K by the FCC. #FloridaMan | 0:00 | 4 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Men have evolved bushy beards to soften the impact of punches and protect their jaws. | 0:00 | 7 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | In 1866, two separate entrepreneurs started competing milk companies in Switzerland. | 0:00 | 8 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Val Kilmer lost weight, rehearsed daily for 6 months, and nailed Jim Morrison’s voice. #ValKilmer | 0:00 | 3 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Barbara Cartland wrote 723 novels. | 0:00 | 3,367 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | The Sony PlayStation was never meant to be a product. | 0:00 | 3 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | There's a cemetery in the Netherlands consisting of 8,300 US veterans who died in WWII. | 0:00 | 2 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Emma Gibson, frozen as an embryo in 1992, was born in 2017 to a mother born in 1991. | 0:00 | 1 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | A boy dying of an incurable illness wanted to meet Luke Skywalker (in character). | 0:00 | 4 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | 'Restaurant Of Order Mistakes' employs waiters with dementia, and you never know what you're getting | 0:00 | 1 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | The owner of Macy's died on the Titanic. | 0:00 | 8 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Because of their naturally friendly dispositions, Samoyeds usually make for terrible guard dogs. | 0:00 | 11 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Shakuntala Devi solved a 13-digit multiplication in 28 sec & stunned the world. #Genius | 0:00 | 7 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | Australia's first cops were all criminals. | 0:00 | 1,084 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | James McAvoy broke his hand filming Split but kept going for 3 days. #Actor | 0:00 | 1,862 | |
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| 2025-04-14 | NASA was unsure how many tampons to send with Sally Ride; she clarified the amount. #SallyRide #NASA | 0:00 | 5 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Charles Joughin, Titanic’s chief baker, saved lives, drank liqueur, and survived. #Titanic | 0:00 | 523 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | In 2001, a US sub sank a Japanese ship during a demo, killing nine. #Submarine | 0:00 | 23 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | In 2012, NC banned sea rise forecasts from being used in coastal planning. #ClimatePolicy | 0:00 | 21 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | In Japan, monkeys learned to wash sweet potatoes in fresh water to clean them. | 0:00 | 33 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Two rats in an ideal environment can turn into 482 million rats over a period of three years. | 0:00 | 968 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Ben & Jerry's actually has a graveyard where they bury all of the discontinued flavors. | 0:00 | 33 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Japanese bullet train system is equipped with a network of sensitive seismometers. | 0:00 | 10 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Adult Luna Moths have no mouth and die of starvation after 7 days spent mating. #Moth | 0:00 | 27 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Kevin Smith actually worked at the convenience store in Clerks. | 0:00 | 31 | | The Convenience Store
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| 2025-04-13 | Ryan Reynolds paid $10K to wear Bea Arthur’s face on a shirt in Deadpool. #Respect | 0:00 | 40,058 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | The crew of 'Return of the Jedi' mocked the character design of Admiral Ackbar, deeming it too ugly. | 0:00 | 46 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | The first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge survived the fall but died hitting the water. | 0:00 | 36 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | There is a type of music called binaural beats, that can make you high and trigger special dreams. | 0:00 | 21 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | In 2015, Swindon police apologized for using their sirens unnecessarily on a residential street | 0:00 | 19 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Unborn babies grow lanugo, fine hair that covers the body, and swallow it, excreting it as meconium. | 0:00 | 26 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Belgian bars take a shoe as deposit to stop glass theft—then hang it up. #Shoes | 0:00 | 1,592 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Unborn babies grow a fine hair (lanugo) that covers their body, not a mustache. #FetalDevelopment | 0:00 | 17 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Common ravens have been observed calling wolves to the site of dead animals. | 0:00 | 1,489 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Blue eyes trace back to a single common ancestor shared by all blue-eyed people. #Genetics | 0:00 | 17 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Hiram Maxim went deaf from testing his machine guns; his son invented the silencer. #Maxim | 0:00 | 33 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | In 1959, a sonic boom from a jet shattered Ottawa Airport’s glass, delaying its opening. #Aviation | 0:00 | 42 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Pteronophobia is the fear of being tickled by feathers. | 0:00 | 47 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | The “Right to light” law protects natural daylight for buildings with 20+ years of windows. #Legal | 0:00 | 21 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | In Australia when it gets very hot, the nectar in some flowers ferments and turns into alcohol. | 0:00 | 21 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Men hear male voices like machines, but process female voices like music. #BrainFacts | 0:00 | 20 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Archaeologists found 5,700-year-old chewing gum in a Danish fishing village. #Ancient | 0:00 | 1,676 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | An American POW was nicknamed "The Incredibly Stupid One" by his Vietnamese captors. | 0:00 | 2,701 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Titanic’s William Murdoch was depicted wrongly in the film; he heroically filled lifeboats. #Titanic | 0:00 | 82 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Vince Coleman warned of an explosion, saving 300 lives before his own death. #Hero | 0:00 | 29 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | In Vrontados, Greece, rival churches shoot fireworks at each other every Easter. | 0:00 | 616 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Robin Williams once visited a shop in full Mrs. Doubtfire costume while filming. #FunFact | 0:00 | 22 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | The Netherlands passed a law that gives unmarried fathers equal child custody rights as mothers. | 0:00 | 95 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | In WWII, German interrogator Hanns Scharff got intel without using torture. #WWIIHistory | 0:00 | 42 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Freddie Mercury dated Mary Austin for 6 years before coming out as gay. #QueenFacts | 0:00 | 20 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | Torre Mayor in Mexico is one of the strongest buildings for earthquake resistance. | 0:00 | 15 | |
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| 2025-04-13 | CIA revealed a battery-operated gun in 1975 which fired a dart of shellfish toxin and frozen water. | 0:00 | 31 | |
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| 2025-04-12 | Anechoic chambers are so quiet, sound is measured in negative decibels. #Silent | 0:00 | 687 | |
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| 2025-04-12 | There exists a variation of soccer where three teams face each other at the same time. | 0:00 | 1,318 | |
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| 2025-04-12 | Titanic’s baker Charles Joughin survived by riding the ship down—after some booze. #Titanic | 0:00 | 16 | |
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| 2025-04-12 | Molly Brown helped save lives and raised funds after Titanic sank. | 0:00 | 31 | |
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| 2025-04-12 | MRI scans show dogs see owners as family & prioritize their scent. #doglover | 0:00 | 769 | |
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| 2025-04-12 | Kit Kats are made of Kit Kats. | 0:00 | 41,257 | |
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