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1361. Rebecca Romijn-Prolonged usage of Mystique’s blue body paint caused Rebecca Romijn’s vomit to turn blue. She threw up on Hugh Jackman after shooting tequila during their final scenes together in X-Men.

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1362. Christos Papadimitriou Gates-A Harvard professor who had worked with Bill Gates called him shortly after he had left to start Microsoft. The professor recalled, “He had moved to Albuquerque... to run a small company writing code for microprocessors, of all things. I remember thinking: ‘Such a brilliant kid. What a waste.’”

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1363. Hugh Jackman Coffee-Hugh Jackman started his own coffee brand and foundation called “Laughing Man” after meeting a struggling coffee farmer in Ethiopia. His goal was to provide a marketplace for farmers in developing countries to sell their goods for a fair price. Jackman donates 100% of profits.

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1364. Pink Floyd's 'The Wall'-Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' was banned in South Africa in 1980 after schoolchildren started chanting its lyrics to protest an inferior apartheid-era education system.

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1365. Michael Orchard LSD Trip-On October 13, 2016, a man named Michael Orchard from Halfmoon, New York, got high on LSD, drove through his neighbors’ fence, broke their glass door and stole their dog, hallucinating that the neighbors’ house was burning and he was saving the canine. He then peacefully handed the dog to police officers.

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1366. Trial by ordeal-People in Medieval times accused of crimes could opt for a “trial by ordeal” where they stick their hands in boiling water, with a belief that, if innocent, God would stop them from burning. The priests who administered this would secretly cool the water beforehand if they thought the defendant was innocent.

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1367. Michael Phelps-Michael Phelps has more Summer Olympic gold medals than 80% of countries in history even when taking into account countries that no longer exist. In fact, in 2016 after winning his 13th gold medal in an individual event, Phelps overtook the record from Leonidas of Rhodes as the most decorated Olympian of any era. Leonidas did the sprint triple in the stadion, the diaulos, and the hoplitodromos, at four Olympics in a row between 164 and 152 BC., 2,168 years prior.

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1368. Lewis and Clark Expedition-During the Lewis and Clark expedition, in order to speak to an Indian tribe, they spoke in English to a man who knew French who then spoke to a man who knew French and Hidatsa who then spoke to his wife Sacagawea who knew Hidatsa and Shoshone. She then spoke to the tribe’s slave who knew Shoshone and Salishan.

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1369. American Pharoah-Former Triple Crown winner American Pharoah has sex 3 times a day almost every day and his owners charge a fee of $200,000 per impregnation, which leads to an annual revenue of about $30,000,000.

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1370. James Barry-Renowned British military surgeon James Barry was a pioneer in the medical field with a career spanning over 50 years. After his death in 1865, the nurse prepping his body for burial noted female anatomy and stretch marks from pregnancy. Barry was uncovered to be a woman named Margaret Ann Bulkley.

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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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