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1521. Rocky Maivia-Dwayne Johnson's first WWF persona was Rocky Maivia (good guy). The audience rejected him due to his cheesy character, with chants of “Die, Rocky, die!” After this, he became a heel (villain), referring to himself in the third person as “The Rock” and insulting the audience.

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1522. Victorian Murder Bottles-Many Victorian mothers would use a self-feeding bottle to give their babies milk instead of breastfeeding. These bottles that were later nicknamed “murder bottles,” were made of earthenware and glass. They were incredibly hard to clean which caused severe bacteria build up and caused the deaths of thousands of babies.

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1523. Maori Chin Tattoo-For Māori women, the traditional female chin tattoo is considered a physical manifestation of their true identity.

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1524. Owls & Frozen Mice-There are species of owls that freeze mice to eat later. When they’re hungry, they just sit on a mouse until it thaws and eats it then.

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1525. 1905 Times Square NYE Firework-Times Square was Longacre Square until the New York Times moved their headquarters there in 1904. To celebrate the move, publisher Adolph Ochs staged a New Year’s Eve fireworks display, and three years later organized the first New Year’s Eve ball drop.

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1526. SR-71 Blackbird True Color-The iconic SR-71 Blackbird, the fastest aircraft ever built and named after its black exterior, is actually painted in dark blue.

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1527. JASON Group-In 1960, the US government formed a clandestine group of elite scientists called JASON. “The Jasons” meet in secret every summer and includes 11 Nobel Prize winners. Their report on the futility of tactical nuclear weapons may have saved a lot of lives during the Vietnam War.

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1528. The Harris’s List-“The Harris’s List” was a directory from the 1700s that catalogued all the prostitutes in London during that period, including their address, price, age and skills. It also rated their performance and described their appearance. It was published annually for decades.

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1529. Jacob Fugger-Jacob Fugger who was born in 1459, was (arguably) the richest man who ever lived, and shaped history by influencing kings and popes to act in his own best interests. His wealth at the time of his death was $309 billion (in 2019 USD).

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1530. Dirk Vlug-In 1944, when Dirk Vlug and his men were manning a roadblock, they encountered Japanese tanks. Vlug scooped up his rocket launcher, dashed into open and midst machine gunfire blew up his first tank. When occupants of a second tank opened the hatch to dismount to attack him, Vlug drew his pistol and shot the first guy, loaded up and blew the second tank, then a third, a fourth one and finally a fifth one back to back without missing a single shot.

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34 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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