Random useless fact (uselessfacts) API

Return a random or daily useless-but-true fact from uselessfacts.jsph.pl, with its source. Answers 'tell me a random fact','a useless fact','fun fact of the day','something interesting'.

Price$0.01per request

MethodPOST

Route/v1/data/misc-useless-fact

StatusLive

MIME typeapplication/json

Rate limit60/minute

Cache3600s public

datafactuseless-facttriviarandomfundid-you-knowbot

API URLhttps://x402.hexl.dev/v1/data/misc-useless-fact

Integration docs

Example request

{
  "daily": false,
  "language": "en"
}

Example response

{
  "id": "8edcf68d-6c9b-4cb9-a9b9-1a4c0bb3a9aa",
  "fact": "Honey never spoils.",
  "language": "en",
  "sourceUrl": "http://www.djtech.net/humor/useless_facts.htm",
  "permalink": "https://uselessfacts.jsph.pl/8edcf68d"
}

Input schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [],
  "properties": {
    "daily": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "examples": [
        false
      ]
    },
    "language": {
      "type": "string",
      "enum": [
        "en",
        "de"
      ],
      "default": "en"
    }
  }
}

Output schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "additionalProperties": true
}