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1201. Taylor Swift-After Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift during the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards, Comedy Central replayed the episode “Fishsticks” four times consecutively.

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1202. Mark Zuckerberg-Mark Zuckerberg is actually only 5 foot 7 inches tall, but he stages his photos to exaggerate his height.

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1203. Chris Evans-Chris Evans turned down the role of Captain America multiple times because of anxiety, fear of a 10-movie commitment and the public spotlight. He went to therapy before taking the role.

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1204. Viggo Mortensen-Viggo Mortensen was offered the role of Aragorn in Peter Jackson's Hobbit film trilogy but turned it down since Aragorn never appeared in Tolkien's Hobbit.

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1205. Delayed Airlines-In the USA if you are delayed by an airline by more than 4 hours for actions within their control (overbooking), you are entitled to 4x the face value of the ticket capped at $1300.

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1206. 1 Euro Ikea Breakfast-An IKEA in the Netherlands had to cancel their 1 euro breakfast special because it attracted too many customers and caused traffic jams on the highway.

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1207. Thud experiment-Thud experiment was an experiment conducted to determine the validity of psychiatric diagnosis. Participants faked hallucinations to be admitted to a psychiatric hospital but then acted normal. They were forced to take antipsychotic drugs to be released.

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1208. George Lucas Steven Spielberg-George Lucas thought Steven Spielberg’s “Close Encounters of the Third Kind” would outperform Star Wars so he proposed they trade 2.5% of the profit on each other’s films; Spielberg took the trade, and still receives 2.5% of the profits from Star Wars.

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1209. Kurt Cobain-Nirvana’s Kurt Cobain used to make out with his bandmates on live TV “just to spite homophobes.”

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1210. Muhammad Ali-In 1990, Muhammad Ali met Saddam Hussein in Iraq prior to Gulf War to negotiate the release of 15 American hostages. Ali successfully secured the release of the hostages. Despite rescuing hostages, he was criticized by President George H. W. Bush and The New York Times.

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36 COMMENTS

  1. 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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  2. 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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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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