unbfacts: In 1959, police were called to a segregated library…
unbfacts: In 1959, police were called to a segregated library in South Carolina when a nine-year-old black boy refused to leave. He later got a Ph.D. in Physics from MIT, and died in 1986, as one of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger. The library that refused to lend him books is now named… Read More »
There was no coup in Ivory Coast in May, as claimed
unbfacts: A Syrian boy was born with a genetic condition that…
unbfacts: A Syrian boy was born with a genetic condition that made his skin extremely fragile. For his whole life, most of his body looked like an open wound—and he wasn’t expected to live for long. Doctors in Germany took a sample of his skin and infected it with a customized virus to repair the… Read More »
Why Facts Matter to Baroness Beeban Kidron OBE
In 2017, a 4-year-old girl in Siberia awoke to find her grandmother was sick and not moving. After…
unbfacts: Since Milton Hershey and his wife didn’t have any…
unbfacts: Since Milton Hershey and his wife didn’t have any children, they decided to build a boarding school for orphans. When he died, he left his entire fortune and the ownership of Hershey Chocolate Company in a trust to benefit the school. The school currently has about 2,000 students and over $12 billion in assets.… Read More »
Chrysler once offered Bruce Springsteen $12 million to feature Born in the U.S.A. in a commercial,…
Full Fact’s BBC Radio 4 appeal is under way
In 2010, a man in Birmingham, England was detained after recording his neighbour’s barking dog and…
unbfacts: In 1966, a relatively unknown young musician asked to…
unbfacts: In 1966, a relatively unknown young musician asked to get on stage and play alongside Eric Clapton, who was so legendary that “Clapton is God” was a popular slogan at the time. The young musician played the song “Killing Floor”, which Clapton had always said was too difficult to play live. That man was… Read More »