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966
In his final years, actor Marlon Brando spent a lot of time in AOL chat rooms, having political arguments with strangers and being frequently banned for foul language.
967
As of 2012, Goldman Sachs had 12,000 people with the title "Vice President", which was more than 1/3rd of their employees.
968
A blue whale consumes about 1000 kilograms of krill every day. That's about 1 million individual krill per day, or nearly 30 billion krill in an eighty year lifespan.
969
Elon Musk's friendship with Google founder Larry Page ended over a disagreement about AI. When Musk expressed concern about the dangers of AI destroying humanity, Page accused Musk of being "specieist", irrationally preferring humans over future digital life forms.
970
The tip of a bullwhip is thought to be the first object designed by humans to break the sound barrier. The whip's telltale "crack" is actually a small sonic boom.
100 Recent Comments
Quizmaster
+12
Level ∞
Mar 18, 2024
#966. Sound familiar?
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Mar 27, 2024
#967 source:

https://www.goldmansachs.com/media-relations/in-the-news/archive/nyt-op-ed-response.html

JetPunker180
+7
Level 55
Apr 13, 2024
Although the core of a wooden pencil is commonly referred to as "lead", wooden pencils do not contain the chemical element lead, nor have they ever contained it; "black lead" was formerly a name of graphite, which is commonly used for pencil leads.
FreeStater
+2
Level 81
Apr 14, 2024
Technically, the Philippine legislature does not meet in Manila. The Senate meets in Pasay and the House of Representatives meets in Quezon City.
equivallent
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Level 54
Apr 30, 2024
weird how the metro area is called manila metro area when manila is neither the biggest city nor the capital.
Xtrordinary
+1
Level 75
Apr 30, 2024
same with Omdurman and Khartoum in Sudan, La Paz and El Alto in Bolivia and Kaohsiung and Taipei in Taiwan
Tinny7
+1
Level 72
Apr 14, 2024
Even though the British use the metric system, all of their road signage is in miles per hour. Also, their gas is sold in liters, but its efficiency is measured in miles per gallon.
FreeStater
+1
Level 81
Apr 14, 2024
You probably know Bloemfontein as the judicial capital of South Africa, but the country's highest court, the Constitutional Court, is actually located in Johannesburg.
equivallent
+1
Level 54
Apr 15, 2024
South Africa actually has a fourth capital, Pietermaritzburg, which is home to the national archives
ooftownroad
+6
Level 70
Apr 15, 2024
south africa trying to choose a capital challenge (impossible)
equivallent
+1
Level 54
Apr 16, 2024
Fun Fact: The German Supreme Court is located in Karlsruhe so if Bloemfontein is a capital of South Africa, then Karlsruhe should also be counted as a German capital
ooftownroad
+3
Level 70
Apr 16, 2024
But south africa has to be different
McKenzieFam
+4
Level 68
Apr 15, 2024
By my calculations (which are very back-of-the-envelope and took me about 1 minute after some assumptions), JetPunk should reach 1 billion takes sometime between July 1 and July 5.

Let's see how this comment ages

LBH
+2
Level 59
Apr 29, 2024
Where can you find the amount of takes of JetPunk?
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Apr 30, 2024
It's on the home page.
ooftownroad
+2
Level 70
Apr 15, 2024
In the Lushootseed language, the word "Yu?qw" means "Old Salmon that spawned and is to die soon"
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Apr 30, 2024
I think it's actually Yuʔqw, not Yu?qw.
equivallent
+3
Level 54
Apr 15, 2024
Foreign Workers make up 88% of the United Arab Emirates's Population
Dollyfroggy
+5
Level 63
Apr 15, 2024
Tonga is the only country with its letters in reverse alphabetic order. No countries have their letters in alphabetic order.

AbcdefGhijklmNOpqrsTuvwxyz

JohnnyYeet
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Level 66
Apr 15, 2024
Some of the US's founding fathers were extremely young during the Revolutionary War. Marquis de Lafayette was 18, James Monroe was 18, Henry Lee III was 20, Nathan Hale was 21, Aaron Burr was 20, and Alexander Hamilton was 21.
LTNY
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Level 48
May 30, 2025
When lifespans were much shorter than they are today, that was like middle age lol
RedPenguinLol
+2
Level 87
Oct 10, 2025
Historical lifespan statistics are heavily skewed by child mortality. If you made it through childhood, you had a good chance of reaching 60 in that era. In fact, amongst the people mentioned by JohnnyYeet who died of natural causes, the average lifespan was 73 years. So no, 20 was definitely not considered middle aged.
ooftownroad
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Level 70
Apr 15, 2024
Egypt in 2024 has more people than the Mongol Empire did in 1279
ooftownroad
+3
Level 70
Apr 16, 2024
Guyana is the only country in South America to have a Protestant majority
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
Apr 16, 2024
From 1994-2007, Brett Favre was the only starter quarterback for the packers
ooftownroad
+5
Level 70
Apr 16, 2024
Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan share the same vowel sequence and I just thought that was cool

UzbEkIstAn

tUrkmEnIstAn

ooftownroad
+5
Level 70
Apr 16, 2024
There are 797 cities in India named Rampur
ooftownroad
+2
Level 70
Apr 16, 2024
The northernmost and southernmost towns in the continental us both have populations above 2,500
ooftownroad
+5
Level 70
Apr 16, 2024
Rome is further east than venice

Tampa is further west than all of mainland south america

ooftownroad
+11
Level 70
Apr 16, 2024
Caracol, Belize had over 100,000 people in 800 BC.

No city in Belize in 2024 has over 75,000

I'm on a roll

equivallent
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Level 54
Apr 18, 2024
Caana at Caracol has also been the tallest building in Belize since the 9th century and still is the tallest at 43m
Neodymium
+2
Level 63
Apr 16, 2024
factor in

Rama-

and -pore

-puri

-puru

-puram

-pura

Neodymium
+1
Level 63
Apr 18, 2024
You named 922 cities, with a total population of 1,763,772 (0.04% of the world urban population).

( i did the above)

ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
Apr 18, 2024
mm hm
equivallent
+2
Level 54
Apr 19, 2024
cityquiz.io?
Neodymium
+2
Level 63
Apr 25, 2024
yep
ooftownroad
+5
Level 70
Apr 17, 2024
Illinois has the highest number of cities that share their name with a state capital of any other state with 24
equivallent
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Level 54
Apr 17, 2024
Montgomery, Phoenix, (Little Rock), (Denver), Hartford, Dover, Atlanta, Topeka, Frankfort, Augusta, Annapolis, Lansing, (Saint Paul), Lincoln, Concord, Trenton, Albany, Raleigh, Bismarck, Columbus, Salem, Harrisburg, (Providence), Columbia, Nashville, Richmond, Charleston, Madison

24 without, 28 with unincorporated communities

ooftownroad
+2
Level 70
Apr 18, 2024
Speciesist is spelled wrong
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
May 2, 2024
I don't think it is spelled incorrectly here as it is a quote. It's also spelled specieist on this page referencing the incident.
ooftownroad
+4
Level 70
Apr 18, 2024
There is an official term for the 762-767th digits of pi, which is just 9s. It’s called Feynman’s Point.
ooftownroad
+2
Level 70
Apr 18, 2024
and as usual all my facts can be checked with a quick google search
Dimei
+5
Level 63
Apr 19, 2024
The official state vegetable of Oklahoma is the watermelon.
Bhanav
+3
Level 57
Apr 22, 2024
Bernard shaw and Bob Dylan are the only two people to have an Oscar award AND a Nobel prize.
equivallent
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Level 54
Apr 22, 2024
In 1880, "Minnie" was the 5th most popular female first name in the US with 1746 kids born in 1880 in the US being named Minnie. As of 2022, it's barely in the Top 3000 with 55 kids born in the US in 2022 named Minnie
equivallent
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Level 54
Apr 25, 2024
In 2022 in the US, the name "Kacey" was given to exactly 202 girls and 202 boys. (This is also the case with Zohar (5) Viridian (5) Taren (5) Superior (5) Shaden (5) Nike (5) Maycen (5) Martine (5) Kirian (5) Kindred (5) Kilyn (5) Khamil (5) Kesiah (5) Keimoni (5) Kavani (5) Germaine (5) Fendi (5) Carmi (5) Breslin (5) Abiyah (5) Trhue (6) Oreoluwa (6) Lynox (6) Kapree (6) Jaspen (6) Goodness (6) Renny (7) Mauri (7) Evryn (7) Bellemy (7) Jerusalem (8) Crosley (8) Coley (8) Aaris (8) Syven (9) Nabi (9) Khodi (9) Hannan (9) Derin (9) Kentley (10) Nima (11) Psalms (12) Fortune (12) Lennex (13) Mercury (14) Devine (14) Bayler (21) Chosyn (24) Jayme (28) ) Honorable Mention: Javion (M) and Jayvion (M) at 119, Aubri (F) and Aubrey at 135, Darius (M, 400) and Dario (M, 402), Ila (F) and Iyla (F) at 428, Sylvie (F, 718) and Sylvia (F, 719), Valerie (F, 1974) and Valeria (F, 1994)
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
Apr 22, 2024
Despite being over 1800 miles long, there are only 14 settlements on the nizhnyaya tunguska river.

Source google maps

ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
Apr 25, 2024
Maybe even cooler, the Olenyok River only has FOUR settlements, despite being over 1400 miles long
McKenzieFam
+1
Level 68
Apr 25, 2024
that is interesting. most rivers have plenty of settlements. of course, being in Siberia probably helps
Xtrordinary
+2
Level 75
May 1, 2024
I count 5 settlements on Olenyok: Kharyyalakh, Olenyok, Sklad, Taymylyr, and Ust-Olenyok

I count 18 settlements on Nizhnyaya Tunguska: Turukhansk, Tutonchany, Uchami, Nidym, Tura, Kislokan, Yukta, Inarigda, Nakanno, Khamakar, Yerbogachen, Oskino, Erema, Moga, Preobrazhenka, Kalinina, Nepa, and Podvoloshino

not using google maps

ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
May 1, 2024
Regardless, thats crazy
Geographystar
+2
Level 68
Apr 23, 2024
There have been 6 U.S. Presidential elections where both major party candidates were registered in the same state, and in 4 of them both candidates were from New York. (In the other 2 both candidates were from Illinois and Ohio)
ooftownroad
+4
Level 70
Apr 24, 2024
You probably know that Mules are bred with a Jack and a Mare, but what about a Jenny and a Stallion? They're called Hinnies.
equivallent
+1
Level 54
Apr 28, 2024
Fun fact: in German, Mules are called Maultiere, literally "mouth animals"
equivallent
+3
Level 54
Apr 26, 2024
Iran has more ski resorts than Colorado
McKenzieFam
+2
Level 68
Apr 27, 2024
The song 'A Spoonful of Sugar' from the 1964 Mary Poppins film was inspired by the polio vaccine.
ooftownroad
+3
Level 70
Apr 27, 2024
84% of the incorporated communities in the US have less than 10k people
equivallent
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Level 54
Apr 27, 2024
Minnesota has the most incorporated places in comparison to census designated places. 93.4% of census places in MN are incorporated. IA is second with 91.6% and NE is third with 89.7%. At the bottom are NV with 14.3%, CT with 14%, NH with 13% and HI with 0%
equivallent
+2
Level 54
Apr 27, 2024
(not 100% sure) The longest census place name in the United States is "University of California-Santa Barbara" with 34 characters and 16 syllables
JetPunker180
+3
Level 55
Apr 27, 2024
Mount Erebus in Antarctica produce 80g of gold everyday. It costs about 4000 dollars!!
Neodymium
+4
Level 63
Apr 28, 2024
That's cheap for buying a whole mountain. Is it on zillow so I can corroborate your stat?
NEGeo
+2
Level 65
Apr 29, 2024
@McKenzieFam I know what we're doing today! Grab your infinite Australian banknotes and meet me on the Prince Edward Islands!
McKenzieFam
+5
Level 68
Apr 29, 2024
Oh yeah! Let's go!
equivallent
+4
Level 54
Apr 30, 2024
I'm in
Neodymium
+2
Level 63
May 2, 2024
Me 3
ooftownroad
+2
Level 70
Apr 29, 2024
There are only 610 inuits in the entire province of Manitoba
SirPhilippines
+3
Level 73
Apr 29, 2024
There are 0 Inuits in the town of Sazike, Uganda
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
Apr 29, 2024
Manitoba is also 12.5 Million times larger in area and over 1000x more people
SirPhilippines
+6
Level 73
Apr 29, 2024
And infinitely as many Inuits
equivallent
+4
Level 54
Apr 29, 2024
The original name for Los Angeles was El Pueblo de Nuestra Señora La Reina de Los Ángeles del Río de Porciúncula. The Current, full legal name of Santa Fe NM is La Villa Real de la Santa Fe de San Francisco de Asís
Dollyfroggy
+3
Level 63
Apr 29, 2024
In the Chaco War, a territorial dispute between Bolivia and Paraguay, Paraguay was supported by Italy and Bolivia was supported by Czechoslovakia. (Source.)
SirPhilippines
+3
Level 73
Apr 29, 2024
In 1962, Former President Kennedy asked for 1000 Petit Upmann cigars from his presidential aide by the next morning. The next morning, his aide gave him 1200 cigars, and right after, Kennedy signed a bill banning all Cuban products in the United States.
Xtrordinary
+6
Level 75
Apr 30, 2024
fact 279
SirPhilippines
+1
Level 73
Apr 30, 2024
Dang
SirPhilippines
+1
Level 73
Apr 29, 2024
The small settlement of Grytviken, capital of the British territory of the South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, has no permanent residents, but they have 3 seasonal residents, who manage the only museum on the island.
JetPunker180
+2
Level 55
Apr 30, 2024
Jupiter is so large that it doesn't basically orbit the Sun. They both revolve around a point very close to surface of sun but outside the Sun
JetPunker180
+2
Level 55
Apr 30, 2024
You see The Moon upside down in Northern hemisphere as compared to Southern Hemisphere.
JetPunker180
+2
Level 55
Apr 30, 2024
We can taste Garlic by rubbing it with our feet
Fianchetto
+1
Level 78
Apr 30, 2024
Maybe you can, I don't think I'm able to
equivallent
+6
Level 54
Apr 30, 2024
what is more interesting than the fact we can taste garlic with our feet is that someone was actually dumb enough to try it
JetPunker180
+1
Level 55
May 1, 2024
Try searching or on Google and you will find how
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
May 1, 2024
The 2023 UT Permian Basin football team outscored opponents 209-42 in their first three games
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
May 1, 2024
Parts of California are further north than NYC
AwesomePotato170
+5
Level 63
May 1, 2024
Gabon spelt backwards is Nobag, but they don't have a particularly low level of plastic pollution.
ooftownroad
+3
Level 70
May 1, 2024
Similarly, over 65% of California's population is alive in 2024!
FreeStater
+8
Level 81
May 2, 2024
USA spelt backwards is ASU, and, coincidentally, it is the location of Arizona State University.
Dollyfroggy
+3
Level 63
May 2, 2024
If every other letter of Russia is removed, USA is left over.
Xtrordinary
+3
Level 75
May 3, 2024
Zimbabwe backwards is ewbabmiz. It is completely nonsensical.
Fianchetto
+2
Level 78
May 3, 2024
UAE backwards is Eau, French for water, which coincidentally they seem to be lacking in the desert.
equivallent
+1
Level 54
May 3, 2024
UK backwards is KU even though the Ku Klux Klan is a primarily American Organization
ooftownroad
+3
Level 70
May 3, 2024
Or better yet, UK backwards is KU, even though Kansas University is in the US
ooftownroad
+3
Level 70
May 2, 2024
Palm Springs North, Florida is south of Palm Springs, Florida
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
May 2, 2024
Similarly, Florida, the third most populated state in the us, has 0 cities with over 1,000,000 city proper population
Xtrordinary
+10
Level 75
May 3, 2024
New Fact Absence Disorder (NFAD) or Fact Anxiety is the disorder caused by the absence of new facts. The first case was diagnosed in 2023 by a frequent user of jetpunk.com.

Common symptoms include anxiety, stress, lack of sleep, and spam messaging the Quizmaster for new facts. Symptoms can become more severe if no new facts are added after a prolonged period of time and may require emergency treatment.

Due to NFAD being only a recent phenomenon, very little research has been made. One known treatment is to touch grass, but the treatment is only temporary as once they go back inside, the patient will immediately go on their device and check if there are new facts.

ooftownroad
+8
Level 70
May 3, 2024
Been suffering since late 2023. Prayers for anyone else diagnosed🙏
equivallent
+1
Level 54
May 3, 2024
A Branch of the KKK was established in Fiji in 1874 until it was terminated by the British
ooftownroad
+2
Level 70
May 3, 2024
Hawaii has a bigger economy than the entire country of Slovakia
equivallent
+2
Level 54
May 3, 2024
Mexico City has a bigger GDP PPP than Ukraine
ooftownroad
+1
Level 70
May 3, 2024
In 1988, South Sudan had a birth rate of 8 Births Per Woman
PastaPeople
+2
Level 59
May 3, 2024
The Greek explorer Pytheas went to the Arctic and circumnavigated Britain
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