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1921. Respiratory Infections-A 2-year study showed that washing hands 5 times daily reduced the incidence of respiratory infections by 45%.

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1922. Egg Timer-Mister Rogers once used an egg timer and simply let it run for 60 seconds on a television broadcast, in order to demonstrate how long a minute is. Unlike most TV shows made for kids,

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1923. Persecuted For Wearing the Beard-A Massachusetts man named Joseph Palmer was attacked for having a beard in 1830 and later imprisoned for defending himself. He died in 1873, by which time beards were fashionable. His tombstone reads,

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1924. Andre the Giant-André the Giant grew so fast that his own parents didn't recognize him. He left home at the age of 14 and returned at 19, having already become a professional wrestler. As he explained his career choice of them, they realized they had seen him wrestle on TV under his alias, without knowing it was their son.

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1925. Charles Dickens’ Novel-Charles Dickens’ novels were very popular even among the illiterate poor. They would pool their money to hire a reader, and then gather together to listen to his stories.

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1926. Bar Mitzvah-Some Jewish males celebrate a second Bar Mitzvah at the age of 83, under the logic that the Torah states a normal human lifespan is 70 years, thus an 83-year-old can be considered 13 in a second lifetime. This practice is becoming more common as people are living longer, healthier lives.

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1927. Chinese Medical Tourists-Many Chinese medical tourists who go to South Korea for inexpensive and high-quality plastic surgery have difficulty re-entering China due to their passport photos not matching their new face post-operation.

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1928. Die Hard Writer-The robbery of the Federal Reserve in ‘Die Hard with a Vengeance,’ is so plausible that the FBI actually questioned the screenwriter of the movie on how he had such intimate knowledge of the vaults.

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1929. Macaroni and Cheese-Kraft Foods introduced its boxed macaroni and cheese in 1937 when America was in the midst of the Great Depression with the promise that buyers could feed a family of four for 19 cents. Kraft sold 8 million boxes of its quick-and-easy macaroni and cheese in the first year.

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1930. Tiny Toon Adventures-In the early 1990s, three 13-year-old girls submitted a script for

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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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