The world is far stranger than we usually give it credit for.
Random Facts is an evolving archive of odd but true things — gathered not to explain the world away, but to make it feel newly unfamiliar.
Random Facts is an evolving archive of odd but true things — gathered not to explain the world away, but to make it feel newly unfamiliar.
A numbered, permanent record of every published entry. Nothing is buried.
Browse by place, theme, era, or the particular ways humans tend to get things wrong.
How we decide what belongs here — and what does not.
There is no correct path through the archive. Curiosity rarely works that way.
In the late 12th century, the Egyptian Sultan Al-Aziz Uthman, the son of Saladin, ordered the demolition of Egypt’s ancient pyramids. The plan began with the Pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three at Giza. Workers struggled for months,…