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1131. Rashida Jones-At age 17, Rashida Jones wrote an open letter to Tupac Shakur responding to his remarks about her parents' interracial marriage, to which he publicly apologized and fell in love with her sister.

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1132. Canola oil-The term ‘canola oil’ is short for ‘Canada Oil low acid,’ a name coined to avoid the less marketable word for the product, ‘rapeseed oil’.

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1133. Fire tornado Japan 1923-A massive earthquake struck Japan in 1923, causing a fire tornado that incinerated 38,000 people in 15 minutes. It got so hot that people's feet were stuck to the melting tarmac and they couldn’t run away.

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1134. Mark Cuban-Until 2013, Shark Tank required 5% equity of all companies, just to pitch in the show. Lawyers at ABC later changed the requirement after Mark Cuban gave them an ultimatum to either remove the equity clause or else he would leave the show.

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1135. Heart Attack Grill-Heart Attack Grill is a Las Vegas restaurant where people over 350 pounds eat for free. 3 people have died while eating there, and the only vegan option on their menu is cigarettes.

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1136. Jared Fogle-The FBI mounted a 4-year-long undercover surveillance operation to nab Jared ‘The Subway Guy’ Fogle, after he made some inappropriate comments about middle school girls to a female reporter.

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1137. Jeopardy-In 1967 a man appeared on Jeopardy! intending to win just enough money to buy an engagement ring. He won that amount halfway through and kept his mouth shut from there on. To prevent a recurrence, the rules were changed shortly thereafter, allowing only the winner to keep all his/her winnings.

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1138. Catnip-In the late 1960s some researchers reported that catnip gave people a marijuana-like high when smoked. It turned out the researchers accidentally mixed up the two plants.

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1139. Artimus Pyle-After surviving the plane crash that killed three of his band mates, Artimus Pyle (the drummer of Lynyrd Skynyrd) was shot in the shoulder by a farmer as he stumbled through a field with a group of survivors.

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1140. Mother Mandelbaum-One of New York’s first crime bosses was a Prussian immigrant known as Mother Mandelbaum. She built up a criminal empire worth millions, ran a school to teach kids how to become successful pickpockets and thieves, and functioned as one most prominent hostess for New York’s high society. In 1884, she was arrested and later released on bail. She then managed to flee the United States with an estimated $1 million ($22 million today).

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  2. Would you mind if I started to post these facts on iFunny? I really think people would love them and I would of course credit and link your website.

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  4. Your page (re)numbering makes it almost impossible to find something on your site. The search option doesn’t seem very helpful.. I tried to search for Harris Rosen or Fact #62 after seeing it on Bored Panda, but had to do a brute force search to find this page…

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  6. I just went through all the facts pages. A few things I’ve noticed:
    1. #451-#470 (pgs 46 & 47) have images that are broken.
    2. #841-#1140 (pgs 85-114) are complete duplicates of earlier pages.

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    • Thank you for your valuable feedback. Last night we implemented a new page numbering system for our fact cards. I really messed up with facts #451-#470 which I have fixed now. I have fixed the other problem too.

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  7. Just stumbled onto your site via an Imgur post. Cool stuff.

    Re. one of the citations above: “The oldest D20 dice was uncovered in Egypt…”

    One “die,” many “dice.” The headline in the source given had it right; “Ancient d20 die emerges from the ashes of time.”

    Credibility is always enhanced by proper grammar.

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  10. I really enjoy your site. I visit it regularly at this period of my life to use up time, while entertaining myself, and increase my awareness of life through the amazing insights into stories behind what we often overlook. It is almost therapeutic I would think! For one thing, I feel grateful not to be one of the warped personalities you often report on, but on the other hand, I feel sorry for the suffering that is really behind so many people you note through our shared history, who have the apparency of many successes, but are in fact imperfect and suffering souls like all of us, on the road to something better we hope eh?

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    • History gives us an opportunity to look into the mistake our ancestors made, but also the feats they achieved. The lives they suffered, so that the future generations could have the freedom. I am happy to have been part of such an important part of your life, Stuart.

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  13. I’m sure it’s like asking a magician how his tricks are done, but I would love to know the workings of the research you have to go through to find/verify everything I’ve read on your site. To say they are entertaining would be an insult. I read several pages daily. I have found them to be fascinating, educational, informative, and downright important.

    When I was a child and went on long road trips with my parents, my Mom would would bring a box of Trivial Pursuit cards to read and ask questions to pass the time for everyone in the car…My Wife now reads these to our kids on our vacations.

    Do you take fact submissions, or do you rely on your own people to research and present them to your team/site? The only thing I can say about your site, is some click ads could be modified or even done away with. Political opinion polls, etc…I would sooner see and ad for shaving cream that some of those useless and probably biased ads (not you, just the people conducting them) But, I love what you do and am so glad that your site exists!

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    • Thank you Ryan. It’s the readers like you who keep us going. It gives us immense pleasure to know that you love reading facts on our site. We do take submissions. About 10% of our facts come from submissions. You too can submit facts by filling out this form Contact Us. The ads are what keeps the servers running. We don’t take any donations, use patreon or sell merch on our site so ads are how we generate income. Though, we will take your advice to tone down the ads (we can’t really see what kind of ad our readers see as it’s decided by Google).

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  17. 1454: She wasn’t found “shortly” after, which might imply that 911 had tried to help and just didn’t arrive in time; she was found HOURS after.

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  19. Each of these pages of facts should have its own page for commenting instead of many fact pages and only one place to comment. I’d also delete my post about each fact having its own page since the aforementioned idea is better, but I can’t.

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  23. I love this website I use it all the time and it allows me to attain info that I have been able to use irl all the time. Keep up the great work!

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  24. Also Rickinator for 610 killing bears is not a good thing due to most species of bears being endangered it is just a fact/statistic

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