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2361. Dvorak Keyboard Study Revelation-Most of the stories about the Dvorak keyboard being superior to the standard QWERTY layout come from a Navy study conducted by August Dvorak, who owned the patent on the Dvorak keyboard.

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2362. Kim Sun-ja's Cyanide Attempt-Korean serial killer Kim Sun-ja laced her friend's tea with cyanide, causing her to vomit. She then encouraged her friend to drink more of the beverage, claiming it would make her feel better. However, her friend became suspicious and refused, making her the only known survivor among the six victims Kim poisoned between 1986 and 1988.

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2363. American Me Film Consultant Murders-The Mexican Mafia, offended by certain scenes in the 1992 film American Me, murdered multiple consultants. Actor Danny Trejo asserted that the Mexican Mafia killed up to 10 people.

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2364. Alaskan Island Invasion Blunder-During World War II, the US and Canada invaded a Japanese-held Alaskan island with more than 35,000 men. After suffering more than 300 casualties and nearly sinking the destroyer USS Abner Read due to traps, mines, and friendly fire, they discovered that there were no Japanese on the island.

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2365. Gurkha Recruitment Challenges-Recruitment to the British Army's Gurkha unit is extremely competitive, accepting only 230 recruits out of 28,000 applicants. All recruitment happens in Nepalese villages, and candidates must participate in a two-mile race up a steep hill, carrying 35kg of rocks in a basket.

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2366. Charlotte Rampling’s Film Controversy-Alejandro Jodorowsky approached Charlotte Rampling, who plays Gaius Helen Mohiam in the 2021 Dune series, in a failed attempt to portray Lady Jessica in the 1970s. After reading a scene in the script in which 2,000 extras were to defecate simultaneously on screen, she left the project in disgust.

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2367. Mission Impossible Theme Morse Code-The Mission Impossible theme is famous for its two long notes followed by two short notes. These notes correspond to the Morse code signals for

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2368. Jay-Z's Diss Song-During a rap beef, Jay-Z wrote a diss song against Nas, describing him as having an affair with Nas' girlfriend. Jay-Z's mom was disgusted with her son's behavior and insisted that he apologize to Nas and his family.

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2369. Matthew McConaughey's Character Analysis-After landing the role of Rustin Cohle in season 1 of True Detective, Matthew McConaughey meticulously prepared for it by writing a 450-page analysis that walked through his character's entire journey throughout the season. He titled it the

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2370. Ancient Greek Theater Tradition-According to tradition, in ancient Greek theater, character deaths almost never occurred on stage. Regardless of the character's importance, deaths almost always happened offstage and were announced via messenger, with the body shown later.

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37 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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  11. Your fact card is WRONG! You state Queen Elizabeth II is related to George Washington (which is correct), however, then you all say “Their last living common ancestor is Augustine Warner, Sr. who died in XX.”

    That’s incorrect! i am related to both Col. Augustine Warner, Sr. and George Washington and I’m very much alive as are my family members and 1 uncle and his 2 sons.

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