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2121. Ozzy Osbourne-Ozzy Osbourne gave up taking acid during the recording of Black Sabbath's Volume 4. He said,

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2122. Marion Stokes-To

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2123. American Friendship-More than 1 in 10 Americans have no close friends. The share of Americans who have zero close friends has been steadily rising. From 3% of the population in 1991 to 12% in 2021. The proportion of adults with ten or more close friends has also decreased, from 33% to 13%.

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2124. Garfield’s Surgery Disaster-After U.S. President Garfield was shot, his doctors were very negligent, and he was actually starting to recover before their fumble. They were so negligent and gave him such a bad infection that his assassin openly confessed at trial to the shooting but argued that Garfield’s doctors had actually done the killing.

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2125. Anton Syndrome-Anton syndrome is a very rare condition in which a person becomes blind; they remain unaware of it and deny it as their brain starts generating false visual images. Therefore, they continue to believe that they can see.

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2126. Nancy Holten-A Dutch woman named Nancy Holten was denied Swiss naturalization despite having lived there for 39 years because her

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2127. Banned Spongebob Episode-In the 2003 SpongeBob episode

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2128. Anti-armor Grenade-The U.S. Army once designed an anti-armor grenade that would be the same size and shape as a football so US soldiers would know how to sling it, and the prototype was built using a hollowed-out nerf ball.

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2129. David Bowie Greek Newspaper-David Bowie used to travel around New York carrying a Greek newspaper in the belief that people would assume he was just a Greek man who looked like David Bowie and leave him alone.

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2130. Rube Waddell-Rube Waddell was a Baseball Hall of Famer who, despite his skill, showed various unpredictable behaviors, including leaving midgame to go fishing and being incredibly easily distracted by shiny objects, puppies (who he would leave the field to play with), and fire trucks, which he would chase. He often disappeared for months during the offseason, and no one knew where he was until it was discovered that he was wrestling alligators in a circus.

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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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