Posts by Matt Gilligan

We create new Fact Snacks for you every single day and put them up on our website. But it’s a tough road from fact to Fact Snack. More than half of our submitted, fully-researched facts never even get to be Fact Snacks. Yet here we are, dropping facts on our blog and website multiple times...

This is just depressing. I mean, is nothing sacred anymore? This story comes to us from the UK, and I gotta say, I think wealthy folks have stepped over the line this time. Apparently, people across the pond are putting up spikes on trees near their houses to keep birds away…so our feathered friends don’t...

College exams are horrifying. I graduated from college in 2001, and I still have nightmares that I’m late or unprepared for a huge final. For some reason that fear never subsides, and this story brought it all back again. Yikes! A University of Texas student named Ann Mark decided to share her horrible final exam...

Who knew there could be so many cool facts about shoes? SHOES!!! Well, prepare to be impressed, and maybe you’ll start to look at your footwear just a little bit differently from now on… 9. Source 8. Source 7. Source 6. Source 5. Source Source 2 Source 3 4. Source 3. Source 2. Source 1....

Before December 31, 1967, Robert “Evel” Knievel was a little-known daredevil who traveled the country performing death-defying stunts on his motorcycle in front of crowds of varying sizes. But that day everything changed. Knievel had always been a risk-taker and a successful self-promoter. He was known as a troublemaker in his hometown of Butte, Montana,...

Few serial killers have maintained both their notoriety and anonymity so well as the Zodiac killer. But while we benefit from the distance of time, in the early 1970s the case was extremely urgent. Law enforcement officials and the residents of the San Francisco Bay Area, in the thick of it all, were not only...

Do you love all the tweets? Well, all of these bad boys got over 100,000 retweets because they’re all friggin’ hilarious. You better get your stuff together and up your Twitter game if you want to compete with these folks! But hey, maybe you’re not into competition. Maybe you just want to be a spectator....

Here’s something that’ll make you think: why, after 29 years, is Maggie Simpson still a baby with a pacifier in her mouth? And it’s not only little Maggie we should wonder about. It’s the rest of the Simpson family, as well as their friends, neighbors, and co-workers. Like Mr. Burns? No way he should still...

Maybe pilots drawing things in the sky is the new, hip thing. We recently saw a Navy pilot draw a huge dick in the sky in Washington. That was fun. And now we have the story of an Airbus doing this: An Airbus A380 crew based in Hamburg took a 5-hour flight test and used...

Michigan resident Denell McCaul has a little problem on her hands. It’s not a child, or her job, or a crazy neighbor. It’s her rooster. McCaul let the entire world know that she’s trying to get rid of her rooster because, well, he’s a total asshole. This is McCaul’s description of her feathered friend and...

Is nothing sacred anymore? Doesn’t anyone want to keep some things in our lives private? In this sometimes depressing day and age we live in, people seem intent on sharing every single second of their lives with the entire world on social media. Marriage, kids, death, even something as inane as making dinner. Well, things just...

Things along the already extremely tense North Korean/South Korean border got even more heated last year when a North Korean soldier decided to defect to the South. This was only the third time a North Korean soldier has tried to escape via the Joint Security Area (JSA) in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) that separates the...

Whether or not you are a pot smoker yourself, we can all agree that sometimes people do hilarious shit when they’re high as a kite. Thankfully, people also like to smoke a blunt or two and then get on Twitter and share exactly how scrambled their brains are. That’s a big win for us. All...

Fate. Does it exist, or is life a series of coincidences that sometimes seem spectacular? For recently engaged couple Verona Koliqi and Mirand Buzaku, it seems as if the two were fated to be together. The couple started dating in 2016 and got engaged this past August. Okay, that’s not the fate part. Recently, the two...

The more you know about stress, the better. Stress can eat away at your body and mind, so it’s best to do everything you can to get it under the control. Take a look at these 10 facts to learn more about the ailment that affects so many of us. 10. Develop those social skills!...