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1181. Jodie Foster-In 1976 Jodie Foster starred in 5 feature films (including Taxi Driver, Bugsy Malone, and Freaky Friday), winning 2 Baftas, an Oscar nomination, and 7 other awards. She was only 13 years old.

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1182. Louis Réard Bikini-The bikini was named after a Pacific island that the United States bombed during nuclear testing which led to displacement of the entire population and rendered the whole island uninhabitable. According to its creator Louis Réard, the bikini was supposed to have the same

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1183. Japanese WA concept-According to the Japanese concept of “Wa”, all people should strive to put the betterment of the overall society above that of the individual. It is considered an integral part of Japanese society.

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1184. Ashton Kutcher-Ashton Kutcher ended up in the hospital with pancreatic issues after following Steve Jobs' fruitarian diet in preparation for the movie ‘Jobs’. Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer.

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1185. Knights Fighting Snails-Depictions of knights fighting snails were common in medieval texts and no one really knows why.

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1186. Patel Motels-One-third of all motels in the U.S. are owned by Indians with the last name ‘Patel.’

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1187. Kid Rock-Kid Rock took a massive pay cut on his 2013 summer tour in order to keep ticket prices for his shows capped at $20, and beer prices at $4 for 12oz.

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1188. Frankie Muniz-Frankie Muniz suffers from long-term memory loss and doesn't even remember being on Malcolm in the Middle. He attributes this to the 9 concussions he has suffered in his life. Bryan Cranston who played his father in the show still keeps in touch with him and reminds him of all the good times they had on the show.

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1189. United Airlines Pets-United Airlines has repeatedly killed more pets per year than any other US airline.

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1190. Colonel David Stirling-Colonel David Stirling, the founder of the SAS was dubbed the “Phantom Major” by German Field Marshall Rommel, and Britain's commander Field Marshall Montgomery described him as “mad, quite mad”. He was rumored to have personally strangled 41 men. During WW2, he managed to escape 5 times when he was captured, after which was sent to the notorious Colditz prison.

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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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