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1571. Emilia Clarke-British actress Emilia Clarke has survived two brain aneurysms and has since founded SameYou, a charity working to develop better recovery treatment for survivors of brain injury and stroke.

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1572. Russian Doping Scandal-During the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russians made a small “mouse” hole into a secure anti-doping lab and exchanged “clean” urine samples for those showing their athletes’ PED use. Over 100 dirty samples were smuggled out by a Russian agent pretending to be a sewer engineer.

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1573. Tyrian Purple-Purple became associated with royalty due to a shade of it named Tyrian purple, which was created using the mucous glands of Murex snails. Even though it smelled horrible, this pigment was treasured in ancient times as a dye because its intensity deepened with time instead of fading away.

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1574. 0-0 Chess Game-The only time a chess game has ended in a result of 0-0 (instead of 1-0, 0-1, or ½-½) was when Tony Miles and Stewart Reuben both agreed to a draw without playing any moves to secure them both a high place. The arbiter decided to award 0 points to each player instead of a draw.

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1575. Speed Camera Lottery-Stockholm in Sweden has speed camera lottery. Driving at or under the speed limit would make you eligible to win the lottery where the prize funds come from the fines paid by speeders. During the trial, the average speed where the lottery was implemented reduced from 20mph to 15.6mph (22% reduction).

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1576. Pizza Intelligence-The night before Iraq invaded Kuwait there was a soar in pizza orders made by the CIA.

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1577. Ida & Isidor Straus-The elderly couple that are seen hugging on the bed in the movie Titanic (1997) while water floods their room were the owners of Macy’s department store, Rosalie Ida Straus and Isidor Straus. When Titanic sank in 1912, Ida had refused a seat on a lifeboat, stating “Where you go, I go,” which inspired Rose’s line in the film.

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1578. Escher Sentences-Escher Sentences are sentences that seem to make sense at first, but actually have no coherent meaning and convey no information. An example of this is, “More people have been to Berlin than I have.” The opposite of this, where a sentence that appears to make no sense, but is actually grammatically coherent is called a “garden path sentence.” An example of this is, “The old man the boat”. This should actually be interpreted as “the old (i.e. old people) man (i.e. control) the boat.

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1579. Dr. Joycelyn Elders-National Masturbation Day which falls on May 7th honors Dr. Joycelyn Elders, who was forced out of her post as U.S. Surgeon General in 1994 after she suggested that masturbation should be discussed as part of sex education.

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1580. Ol’ Dirty Bastard-In 1998 while in a Brooklyn studio, Wu Tang’s Ol’ Dirty Bastard witnessed a car accident outside his window. He organized onlookers to help lift a car off of a trapped 4-year-old girl. Using an assumed name, he visited her frequently in the hospital while she recovered from first-degree burns.

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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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