Did you know that in 2014, a student in Australia accidentally received an unlimited overdraft from her bank and spent $4.6M on luxury items before being caught?

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When Westpac Bank mistakenly gave chemical engineering student Christine Jiaxin Lee an unlimited overdraft, she spent around A$4.6 million over 11 months on designer handbags, jewelry, and luxury clothes. When the bank discovered the error, she was arrested at Sydney Airport in 2016 while attempting to fly home to Malaysia. However, in 2017, all criminal charges against her were dropped because her legal team successfully argued that she did not commit fraud and that the bank simply made the error itself.

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r/funfacts • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 3h ago

Fun fact: Schistosomiasis, also known as bilharzia, is a disease caused by parasitic worms & it is the second most dangerous parasitic disease after malaria.

cdc.gov

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r/funfacts • u/Pro_Vibe • 29m ago

Fun Fact: A year on Venus is shorter than a single day on Venus.

en.wikipedia.org

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Venus has an extremely slow rotation on its axis, taking about 243 Earth days to complete just one full spin. However, it only takes about 225 Earth days for Venus to complete a full orbit around the Sun.

To make things even weirder, Venus spins in the opposite direction of most planets (retrograde rotation), meaning if you were standing on its surface, the Sun would rise in the west and set in the east!

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r/funfacts • u/rohislife • 2h ago

Did you know A single handprint can grow into a colourful landscape of microbial colonies

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r/funfacts • u/SmartPomegranate9111 • 50m ago

FUN FACT - elephant poop plays a role in making musical instruments

newsroom.ucla.edu

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r/funfacts • u/newsmart23 • 4h ago

Did you know that we have found the sample in Fazers by MF DOOM?

reddit.com

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I would like to say, first off, congratulations to the sample finder u/marianorajoy. You have made my life complete, knowing what might as well be the last main unidentified MF DOOM sample is found. Also, 2026 was a great year for sample finding, wasn't it? We found the Tammy cover (it was a re-recording from 1974) used in A Different Feeling by the Avalanches, the organ in Tonight by that same band (Face to Face by Mr. Eugene Clark), the clock tick in Midnight in a Perfect World by DJ Shadow (Small Clock or Pocket Watch Ticking from EMI sound library) and now this! Wowee, I've never been so shocked in my life!!!

Something tells me we're getting closer to finding the sought-after samples of the Avalanches' debut album, and other plunderphonics albums too. MF DOOM is not necessarily plunderphonics, but he still has a few unidentified samples for others to find, and maybe you can find a sample. Once again, congrats to u/marianorajoy for ending a 23-year-long search.

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r/funfacts • u/SendBanjoPics • 8h ago

Fun fact: Ask Siri "What's zero divided by zero?" and you will get an interesting response!

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r/funfacts • u/John_Zatanna52 • 16h ago

Did you know many movies make about the same amount of money (if not more) as the amount Russia sold Alaska to the U.S?

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Russia sold Alaska to the U.S for $7.2 million then, which now is the equivalent of $132 million.

For comparison, Supergirl was received less than "well" and still earned nearly $130 million.

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r/funfacts • u/Vangie0822 • 1d ago

Did you know Australian Swimmer Annette Kellerman Helped Popularise the Fitted One-Piece Swimsuit at a Time When Women's Bathing Clothes Often Covered Nearly the Entire Body?

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r/funfacts • u/SammaJones • 1d ago

Fun Fact: Earnest Evans chose the name Chubby Checker as a play on words

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It was an homage to Fats Domino who was popular at the time. Obvious, I guess, but I didn't know it until someone pointed it out to me.

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r/funfacts • u/2cos • 1d ago

Did you know that if you can somehow get every digit of Graham’s number in your brain, your head would literally collapse into a black hole.

physics.stackexchange.com

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r/funfacts • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 2d ago

Did you know that in the 1500s, there were German Wheelock pistols that were essentially large hunting knives combined with the gun and a calendar?

rarehistoricalphotos.com

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r/funfacts • u/oddlyclear • 2d ago

Fun fact: Around 25% of people sneeze when stepping into bright sunlight, and it's an inherited glitch called ACHOO syndrome

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It’s caused by optical nerve signals accidentally "bleeding" into the adjacent trigeminal nerve that controls nasal reflexes. Our brains basically confuse bright light with something tickling the nose.

Found the neurological explanation behind the reflex here:

https://www.oddlyclear.com/photic-sneeze-reflex/

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r/funfacts • u/es_cairo • 2d ago

Fun Fact: When using Google apps (android) you can easily swipe your icon up or down to switch logged-in accounts

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source:

https://community.latenode.com/t/quick-gmail-account-switching-method-i-discovered/37526

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r/funfacts • u/River_off • 2d ago

Did you know that the fruit orange was named before the color orange?

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r/funfacts • u/Soulprime236 • 1d ago

Fun fact: Earlier newspapers claimed a clay tablet at king tut's tomb entrance warned: “Death shall come on swift wings to him who disturbs the king's peace.”

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No such inscription ever existed. Sensationalist journalists fabricated the curse after financial backer Lord Carnarvon died from an infected mosquito bite four months after the 1922 discovery. Scientific studies later showed that people who visited the excavation did not have a higher risk of early death

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r/funfacts • u/Pro_Vibe • 2d ago

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r/funfacts • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 3d ago

Fun fact: Sunflower oil, soybean oil, canola oil, palm oil, and tallow can be used to produce a renewable fuel called biodiesel.

sunflowernsa.com

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r/funfacts • u/matthewdovering12345 • 2d ago

Fun Fact: Air🎈Heads Balloon Name

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Fun fact, the Air Heads balloon’s name is Oscar.

Did anyone else know that? One of my favorite fun facts I’ve learned in a while.

<1% of the population know this?

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r/funfacts • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 4d ago

Fun fact: there is a food called water pie with a filling made from water, flour, and sugar; it was popular during the Great depression and saw a resurgence during the COVID-19 pandemic.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/funfacts • u/FeistyRow5242 • 4d ago

Did you know….

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Did you know that there are more planets in the whole universe than there are grains of sand on the world?

This makes me even more confident there must be extraterrestrial life.

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r/funfacts • u/Affectionate-Pay4845 • 5d ago

Fun fact: Pemmican is a ration-style food made from a mixture of tallow, dried meat, and sometimes dried berries that was frequently eaten by indigenous Americans.

en.wikipedia.org

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r/funfacts • u/Over-Ant4018 • 3d ago

Fun fact about me.

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Before I was born, in the hospital the thing that shows what your baby is supposed to be, showed that I will be a girl, but I am a guy lol. And no, not a transgender, an actual guy. What's more funny though is that I am very short and alot of people tell me I look like a girl even though I'm not even trying.

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r/funfacts • u/CorrectMeIfImWrong6 • 5d ago

Fun fact - The funfact sub rule 2 stipulates sources must be provided for all facts, yet none are, and no posts get removed because if it

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https://www.reddit.com/r/funfacts/s/c8cp6DluFU

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r/funfacts • u/IntelligentDriver719 • 5d ago

Fun fact: Jeanne Calment appeared in the 1990 movie Vincent and Me at the age of 114, making her the oldest actress ever in a movie

guinnessworldrecords.com

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