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1741. Albert Gunter Bus Jump-In 1952, a bus driver named Albert Gunter was driving over the London Tower Bridge, when to his surprise, the bridge started opening. The double-decker bus was at the edge of the south bascule when it started rising. He made a split decision and accelerated, clearing the 6 feet drop. Later he received a £10 bonus.

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1742. West & Gorshin-Adam West and Frank Gorshin were once kicked out of an orgy because they were determined to stay in character as Batman and the Riddler.

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1743. Casey Anthony-Casey Anthony who was arrested on charges of killing her 3-year-old daughter, had “fool-proof suffocation methods” in her Firefox search history from the day before her daughter died. Police overlooked this evidence because they only checked the history in Internet Explorer.

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1744. Koalas-Koalas have one of the smallest brains in proportion to the bodyweight of any mammal. They are so dumb, that when presented with leaves on a flat surface instead of on branches, they are unable to recognize them as food and will not eat them.

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1745. Ted Kaczynski-Ted Kaczynski (better known as the Unabomber) received an invitation in 2012, while incarcerated at ADX Florence, to his Harvard graduating class’s 50th-anniversary reunion. He RSVP’d, noting his occupation as “prisoner” and his eight life sentences as “awards.”

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1746. Rosenhan Experiment-The Rosenhan experiment involved a Stanford psychologist and his associates faking hallucinations in order to be admitted to psychiatric hospitals. After they were inside they acted normally. All were forced to admit to having a mental illness and to take antipsychotic drugs in order to be released.

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1747. Adriana Ferrarese del Bene-Mozart disliked performer Adriana Ferrarese del Bene, who was known for nodding her head down on low notes and raising her head on high notes, so much, that he wrote a song for her to perform that had lots of jumps from low to high just so he could see her head “bob like a chicken” onstage.

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1748. William James-Philosopher William James experienced the great depression due to the notion that free will is an illusion. He brought himself out of it by realizing, that since nobody seemed able to prove whether it was real or not, he could simply choose to believe it was.

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1749. Hipsters Look Same-In 2019, a hipster complained to MIT Technology Review for using his picture to imply hipsters look the same. He ended up discovering that the picture was of an entirely different hipster.

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1750. Caligula’s Bridge-An ancient Roman oracle once prophesied that “Caligula had no more chance of becoming emperor than of riding a horse across the Bay of Baiae.” After becoming emperor, Caligula ordered ships to construct the largest pontoon bridge in history and rode his horse across the Bay of Baiae.

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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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