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2817. Origins of Modern Gaming Chairs-The modern gaming chair design originated from DXRacer's repurposing of car seats following Chrysler's discontinuation of the vehicles they were originally designed for.

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2818. Led Zeppelin's Singapore Hair Hassle-In 1972, Led Zeppelin was compelled to cancel a performance in Singapore when local officials, objecting to their long hair, refused to allow them off the plane.

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2819. Korean Cult's Rapture Prediction-A Korean cult predicted the rapture to occur on October 28, 1992, at 12 a.m. Parishioners eagerly awaited transportation to heaven, some abandoning jobs or giving away possessions. However, their hopes were shattered when, 10 minutes past midnight, a boy shouted from inside,

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2820. Japanese School Hair Mandate-Up until 2022, the dress code enforced by the Japanese public school system mandated that students have black hair. One student, with naturally brown hair, was compelled to dye it black and was required to continually dye it whenever her roots showed. She was given academic penalties for not dyeing it often enough.

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2821. DDT Fogging Trucks-In the 1950s and 1960s, trucks equipped with fogging machines sprayed DDT while traversing American streets to eradicate mosquitoes. Children would often trail behind these trucks, playing in the dense fog they generated. In 1972, the United States banned the use of DDT.

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2822. Sudan Slave Purchase Initiative-In 1998, elementary students in Aurora, Colorado, began purchasing slaves in Sudan with the intention of setting them free. This initiative gained international attention, leading to similar programs in schools across other countries. However, it later became apparent that the money raised was inadvertently perpetuating slavery and helping it grow.

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2823. Youngest WW2 Soldier-Calvin Graham holds the distinction of being the youngest American to serve in World War II, enlisting at the age of 12 in the US Navy. He participated in combat at Guadalcanal and received eight medals, which were later revoked when his true age was revealed by his mother upon seeing him in a newsreel.

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2824. Manhattan Project Radiation Incident-In 1946, Alvin Graves, a physicist on the Manhattan Project, experienced acute radiation sickness from a demon core along with physicist Louis Slotin during a test, leading to long-term neurological and vision problems. Slotin later asked Alvin's wife, Elizabeth Graves, another physicist on the project, to calculate the survivability of such radiation exposure without disclosing her husband's incident, leaving her stunned upon learning the truth.

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2825. Japanese Space Novice-Toyohiro Akiyama made history as the first Japanese individual sent to space. Dubbed

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2826. Guantanamo Bay Lease-The United States holds a perpetual lease for Guantanamo Bay and annually issues a check for approximately $4500 to Cuba. Since 1953, the Cuban government has consistently refused to accept this payment. However, in 1959, there was confusion when the check was accidentally deposited.

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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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