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As of 2018, only 2% of English adults aged 18–24 belonged to the Church of England while 70% claimed to have no religion. Henry VIII must be rolling in his grave.

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The S in Harry S. Truman's name was not an abbreviation. His middle name was S.

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A single apartment building in Hangzhou, China is home to an estimated 10,000–20,000 residents.

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The ancestor of domestic cattle was a creature known as an "aurochs". Aurochs were hunted to extinction gradually over thousands of years. The last known individual died in Poland in 1627 AD.

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If you look at a graph of worldwide deaths per year since 1950, it is mostly a smooth line except for two big spikes. The first was Mao's Great Leap Forward. The second was Covid-19.

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Level 61

Apr 3, 2023

I think an interesting fact would be the quiz with the most answers

Level 60

Jan 13, 2024

There's a cap at 10,000. I had a quiz idea with over 100k answers, but it can't be done.

Level 51

Mar 6, 2024

before qm added an answer limit, somebody created a quiz with all us cities over (1k population in 2010), it had slightly over 10k answers

Level 53

Apr 3, 2023

Interstate 5 (that roughly goes along the West Coast of the U.S.) connects to Canada's Route 99 on the north end, and Mexico's Route 1 on the south end. 99+1=100!

Level 58

Apr 4, 2023

+5=105

Level 65

Apr 5, 2023

Finland joined NATO yesterday (April 4th 2023)

Level 58

Apr 5, 2023

no u

Level 65

Apr 6, 2023

I still struggle getting NATO membership. Thanks for noticing

Level 69

Apr 7, 2023

JetPunk has fallen…

Level 65

Apr 7, 2023

Peak Jetpunk comment thread

Level 65

Apr 7, 2023

Liechtenstein is the world's largest exporter of false teeth.

Level 69

Apr 7, 2023

Under rare circumstances, it is possible to be president for over eight years. Assuming you are the vice president, and the president dies more than halfway into his term, you can fill his role and still get two full terms of your own.

Level 69

Apr 7, 2023

Additionally, under exceedingly rare circumstance:

As the vice presidency has no term limits, you could theoretically be elected to the role in every election under a different candidate. If your candidate died before Inauguration Day every time, you would be sworn in as president for the full four years. Repeat this process, and you have become president for life.

Level 70

Apr 24, 2023

According to the 12th amendment: "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States". So even with your scheme it would be impossible to be president for more than 10 years.

Level 69

Apr 29, 2023

Damn it! Plan foiled.

Level 60

Jan 13, 2024

Unless I'm missing something, isn't it possible for a person to always run as vice president? Isn't a person only ineligible for president (and vice presdient) if they run for president?

Level 69

Apr 7, 2023

Until the mid-1910's, theaters in the United States thought audiences would not want to sit for a few hours to watch a movie, and instead showed them episodically over the course of a month or two.

Level 57

Apr 7, 2023

And they say our attention spans are bad 😅

Level 69

Apr 8, 2023

Can't wait for theaters to start jamming in Family Guy clips, mobile gameplay footage, Minecraft parkour, Reddit threads, and slime videos for each 60-second episode of the movie.

Level 57

Apr 10, 2023

Along with a sponsorship from Raid: Shadow Legends

Level 65

Apr 8, 2023

Trump got arrested.

Level 69

Apr 8, 2023

It was going to happen someday. Hopefully this will lead the Republicans to pick a better candidate… but Trump will probably still win half the contests.

Level 56

Apr 12, 2023

Fortunately it will make it so that Joe Biden can't run again because the only that guy had going for him was that he could beat Trump

Level 69

Apr 14, 2023

Very true—my bet's on Newsom or Warren getting the Democratic nomination.

Level 69

Apr 8, 2023

Pope Urban VII ruled for a total of thirteen days in 1590.

Level 65

Apr 8, 2023

The flag of the Vatican City on Wikipedia was wrong for several years. The band on the flag (below the tiara) was shown as red, when it should've been white (another fun fact: the All Country Flags quiz on Jetpunk still has the red band)

Level 65

Apr 8, 2023

The easternmost point of travel in the United States is called Point Udall (on Saint Croix, US Virgin Islands).

The westernmost point of travel in the United States is called... Point Udall (on Guam). Both points were named after brothers.

Level 65

Apr 8, 2023

Utah will have a new flag by March 2024.

It's definitely a top 5 state flag personally

The flag

Level 69

Apr 8, 2023

It's so charmless and bland. It looks like a corporate logo, not an expression of heart like the old flag.

Level 65

Apr 8, 2023

Personally, I find the current one to look practically indifferent to almost any other state flag

Idk just me though

Level 65

Apr 10, 2023

There is a mall in Moldova called… MallDova

Level 56

Apr 12, 2023

There's a mall in the maldives called the Malldives

Level 65

Apr 13, 2023

Sister malls

Level 69

Apr 8, 2023

It's technically possible to become the President with only eleven votes.

Level 59

Apr 10, 2023

Don't we love our way of electing the president!!

Level 69

Apr 11, 2023

Better than first-past-the-post, in which case you'd need only one vote to win.

Level 59

Apr 21, 2023

But the thing is, it's not far fetched for somone to win presidency with 30 or 40%.

Level 43

Apr 8, 2023

Don't know if you already added it, but the creators of Adidas and Puma were both brothers.

Level 59

Apr 21, 2023

Gebrüder Dassler Schuhfabrik

Dassler Brother Shoe Factory. As in |Adi Das|sler.

Level 58

Apr 9, 2023

From 1997 to 2006, Ecuador fought a war on the Galapagos Islands against 250,000 goats which was threatening the island's tortoises.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVWMIsHMQPs

Level 60

Jan 13, 2024

At least they won (ahem ahem Australia).

Level 69

Apr 10, 2023

In 2001, dozens of people claimed to have seen a monkey man in Delhi, India. Supposedly, he would go around and attack people, fleeing the scene before anyone could arrive to help. Mobs formed to find this "monkey man," and some people even died trying to, allegedly, escape it.

Level 65

Apr 10, 2023

Delhi next Jumanji film location confirmed?

Level 69

Apr 10, 2023

The title-drop would be incredible: "Quit acting like a monkey... man."

Level 65

Apr 12, 2023

The Rock gets another role

Level 56

Apr 12, 2023

Hanuman

Level 66

Apr 11, 2023

Aldi is not one company. The German company is split into Aldi Nord and Aldi Sud, two separate companies. If you live in America, the Aldi you see is Aldi Sud, and where's Aldi Nord? Aldi Nord controls Trader Joe's.

Level 69

Apr 11, 2023

At the 2020 Democratic Convention, 3,979 delegates from 58 jurisdictions attended.

Level 69

Apr 11, 2023

Buddha supposedly made a list of rules for games he believed to be harmful. And yes, Chess is subject.

Level 66

Apr 11, 2023

I love the title: "List of games that Buddha would not play" It's titled in a way like a random guy just put a list on Wikipedia about his friend to remind him.

Level 34

Apr 12, 2023

In Iowa, hogs outnumber humans more than 6 to 1

Level 56

Apr 13, 2023

just like in real life

Level 65

Apr 20, 2023

Certified hog riders

Level 54

Apr 12, 2023

In Strasbourg in 1518, there was a dancing plague where people could not stop dancing. It has been speculated that some people even danced to their deaths.

Level 60

Apr 12, 2023

I was skeptical, but I did some research and found no proof of it being fake, and yet a lot of evidence of it actually being fact.

Level 69

Apr 13, 2023

Mass hysteria is crazy.

In 1688, dozens of towns across England geared up for war due to rumors of an Irish Army invading and pillaging the countryside. The actual army, which was hired by the King, had already left, but rumors of it still ran wild.

Level 69

Apr 13, 2023

Intersex people can get themselves pregnant, though it is exceedingly rare to have all the necessary organs working. Additionally, the babies are almost always born with defects.

Level 56

Apr 14, 2023

just like me fr fr no cap ong not gonna lie that's finna hip aight myself is pretty daddy

Level 60

Apr 15, 2023

Oooooorah 💪 slayed ong no cap fr fr crazy fr ngl

Level 58

Apr 16, 2023

is there a way to downvote comments?

Level 56

Apr 17, 2023

Ooop sorry sis you got snatched on this one,,,,, can't stop our savage swag with your hater 'tude!

Level 69

Apr 18, 2023

JetPunk has fallen. Millions must quiz.

Level ∞

Apr 21, 2023

Would need a good source for this. Feels possible but probably not true.

Level 69

Apr 21, 2023

This article seems to suggest it's possible.

Level ∞

Apr 21, 2023

Your fact implied that it is has happened in humans.

Level 69

Apr 14, 2023

There are no tigers west of Mumbai.

Level 57

Apr 19, 2023

Didn't realize the Bronx Zoo was east of Mumbai

Level 60

Apr 21, 2023

I doubt the Bronx zoo is the only zoo with tigers

Level 65

Apr 23, 2023

But it is still a zoo with tigers

Level 69

Apr 14, 2023

From 1922 to 1962, gubernatorial elections in the state of Georgia were so one-sided, that the Democratic primaries were widely considered the "true" election. During this period, Republicans never even nominated a candidate.

Level 57

Apr 16, 2023

There is a city on the US side of the US-Mexico border called Calexico, which is a portmanteau of California and Mexico. Similarly, the city across the border from Calexico, on the Mexican side, is named Mexicali.

Level 58

Apr 17, 2023

I love this

Level 60

Jan 13, 2024

It's interesting, but Mexicali might be named just for the state it lies in, called Baja California.

Level 66

Apr 17, 2023

I seriously find it super difficult to find interesting facts now. It's gotten to the point where most facts have already been said or are not interesting enough.

Level 69

Apr 17, 2023

If you have to do some digging to find it, chances are it's going to be more interesting.

Level 69

Apr 17, 2023

Under the Confederate States Constitution, the president is eligible for one, six-year term. Had the country not dissolved, Jefferson Davis' term would've ended on February 22, 1868.

Level 66

Apr 18, 2023

You call someone from Hamburg, a Hamburger. You call someone from Frankfurt, a Frankfurter.

Level 56

Apr 19, 2023

You call someone from Berlin a Berliner

Level 56

Apr 19, 2023

you call someone from Stuttgart a Stuttgarter

Level 58

Apr 19, 2023

badenburger?

Level 65

Apr 29, 2023

That sounds like the president's lunch...

Level 65

Apr 19, 2023

You call someone from Cologne, they answer.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

You call someone from Montana, and then there's a chip on the line.

Level 65

Apr 20, 2023

You call someone, they answer

(maybe)

Level 69

Apr 19, 2023

Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, was elected to both the U.S. House and Georgia Gubernatorial office after the war.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

In the presidential election of 1820, the United States was so unified that only a single candidate ran—James Monroe. He won the popular vote in every state except one, Massachusetts, where he lost to the Federalist Party, despite the fact they never fielded a candidate. He got their electoral votes anyways.

Additionally, he didn't win every electoral vote: one elector from New Hampshire cast a vote for John Quincy Adams.

Level 56

Apr 20, 2023

What;s your obsession with elections

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

I suppose I am amongst the… elect.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

In the 1872 presidential election, Horace Greeley, a Liberal Republican aligned with the Democrats, ran against incumbent Ulysses S. Grant. After the popular vote had been totaled, but before electoral votes could be cast, Greeley died suddenly. The electors pledged to him instead voted for other high-ranking Democratic officials. Three electors from Georgia even cast their votes for Greeley, despite his death.

Not that any of this mattered, anyways: Grant won the election in a landslide.

Level 60

Jan 13, 2024

Even the Grim Reaper is interfering with elections now.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

Democrats (but not Republicans, strangely) allow voters in other countries to participate in their primaries. This entire cluster, known as Democrats Abroad, is awarded 13 delegates to the National Convention.

Ironically, Biden won Afghanistan in this election by one vote (out of three total cast).

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

Only one person has run six times in a presidential election: George Clinton. Of them, he won just two (as Vice President).

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

He's also one of two people to receive both presidential and vice presidential votes in a single election, having done so in 1808. The other is Benjamin Gratz Brown, running mate of the aforementioned Horace Greeley.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

Franklin Pierce was considered for a second, non-consecutive, term at the 1864 Democratic Convention, but he declined it.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

Throughout the late 18th and early 19th centuries, many states chose their presidential electors through the state legislature, giving the people only indirect participation in the national election process. The last time this happened was in Colorado in 1876.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

Tennessee and Louisiana both held elections for the 1864 presidential in Union-held areas, but they were rejected by Congress. Both voted for Lincoln.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

Only Wyoming, Alaska, and Delaware have consistently held a single representative district. Every other state has, at some point, had two or more.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

However, Delaware elected two representatives from 1813 to 1823, despite still only having one district.

Level 69

Apr 20, 2023

Delaware is the oldest representative district in the country, having never changed in shape or size since 1789.

Level 65

Apr 22, 2023

And before 1950?

Spike US Civil War

Spike WW1

Spike WW2

Spike Multiple mass-murders across Russia and Eastern Europe

Level ∞

Oct 28, 2023

Before 1950, the spikes would be frequent and much larger.

Genghis Khan killed something like 5% of the world's population and even changed the climate as forests took over in previously cultivated areas.

Level 54

Oct 29, 2023

Interestingly (in a twisted sense of the word) you can apply Stalin's quote about "one death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic" when looking at data on the graph. We sadly don't tend to think of those spikes as being individuals.