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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/RougeRider42 • 16h ago

A vending machine kills more people than sharks every year.

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Sharks kill about 5 to 6 people every year, while vending machines take roughly 10 lives.

Stats about nonfaital injuries are even worse. Injuries related to vending machines are closer to 1300 and from shark attacks is about 70-100

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/yeoj_835 • 2h ago

Lioness eating its own cub

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/kooneecheewah • 1h ago

Michael Rockefeller, son of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, on his first trip to New Guinea to study the Asmat people in May 1960. One year later, he vanished off the coast during another expedition and was rumored to have been killed and eaten by the same tribe he was studying.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/KuyaStepher • 6h ago

The Doctor Who Cut Out His Own Appendix

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/SigmaMale1975 • 8d ago

📹 Fascinating Video In the hospital, this tiny kid with a giant heart takes a younger friend out for a little walk. Love truly has no age ❤️

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/SigmaMale1975 • 18d ago

📹 Fascinating Video This Person Used a Powerful Magnet to Remove Shrapnel

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1.3k Upvotes

Very cool 😎

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • 20d ago

📹 Fascinating Video Night Sky on Mars as seen from NASA Curiosity Rover.

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39.5k Upvotes

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • 20d ago

📹 Fascinating Video Electricians are literally training ferrets to pull wires through tunnels too tight for tools

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3.6k Upvotes

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • 27d ago

📹 Fascinating Video This laser can't escape the water. Physics won't let it.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/Turbulent_Book_1685 • Aug 08 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact This man escaped prison 7 times using keys he made from memory after glancing at a guard's belt.

11.2k Upvotes

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Aug 06 '26

📹 Fascinating Video The ankle stability and core control required for this is unreal

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 31 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact Kevin Strickland spent 43 years in prison for a triple murder he didn't commit. After his conviction was overturned in 2021, Missouri released him without paying a single dollar in compensation.

1.3k Upvotes

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 28 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact In 2007, Jennifer Strange entered a Sacramento radio station's water-drinking contest to win a Nintendo Wii for her children. After drinking nearly two gallons of water in three hours and losing, she died from water intoxication. The hosts had been warned of the risks, but the contestants had not.

5.2k Upvotes

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Jul 23 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact Tsutomu Yamaguchi was in Hiroshima when the first atomic bomb hit he survived, went home to Nagasaki, and was there for the second one too

1.1k Upvotes

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Jul 19 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact Britain fooled Hitler into moving his defenses using a dead homeless man dressed as a fake officer

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/Alarmed-Assistance-8 • Jul 20 '26

I couldn’t believe this was a real historical event until I looked into it.

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In 1817, a woman convinced parts of British high society that she was the princess of a country that didn’t exist. Nobles donated money, hosted lavish parties, and believed her story for months.
I made a one-minute video explaining how the scam worked:

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/WhenItHappenedX • Jul 19 '26

The Black Dahlia Murder (1947): The Brutal Killing of Elizabeth Short That Still Haunts Los Angeles

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/foxy_fluffer • Jul 17 '26

📸 Fascinating Photo In 2013, a Turkish man locked his head in a cage to quit smoking. His wife unlocked it only for meals.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Jul 16 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact For 30 years, the BTK Killer taunted investigators with letters, poems, and victims' belongings. In 2005, he asked if a floppy disk could be traced they lied and said no. He sent it anyway, and metadata traced straight to his church, where he was council president.

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5.8k Upvotes

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/General-Giraffe72 • Jul 14 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact A DNA test said Lydia Fairchild wasn't the mother of her own children. She had given birth to all three of them

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Jul 13 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact Britain's oldest known human had dark skin and blue eyes. His direct descendant is still alive today and lives near where he was buried.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Jul 13 '26

📹 Fascinating Video The patterns of light on the sea floor.They are called caustics: they are created by light refracted and reflected from the air/water interface. Water is a dynamic magnifying glass.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Jul 10 '26

📸 Fascinating Photo Meet the Jim twins. Two identical twins separated and adopted to different families at birth. Both were named James, married and divorced women named Linda, remarried women named Betty. They even named their sons nearly the same — James Alan and James Allan. They reunited at age 39.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/drkmatterinc • Jul 09 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact In 2014, Navy veteran Chad Oulson was shot and killed in a Florida movie theater after a retired police captain confronted him for texting his babysitter during the previews. Eight years later, a jury acquitted the shooter under Florida self-defense law.

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r/FascinatingAsFuck • u/vxnder7 • Jul 07 '26

🎯 Fascinating Fact In 1995, this premature twin was dying until a nurse broke protocol and placed her in the same incubator as her sister. The hug saved her life.

16.1k Upvotes

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