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2961. Canadian Teen Discovers Spy Parents-In 2010, a 16-year-old Canadian boy named Alexander Foley discovered that his parents were actually KGB spies living under the fake names Donald and Tracey.

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2962. Michael Phelps' Unmatched Olympic Legacy-Michael Phelps has won a record 23 Olympic gold medals; no other Olympian has won more than nine (as of August 2024). He has more gold medals than any other Olympian, has more total medals, and has more gold medals himself than approximately 60 countries.

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2963. Machine Reveals New Color Spectrum-In 1983, scientists created a machine that temporarily allowed people to see new colors outside the regular color space. It was an eye-tracker device with vertical stripes of red and green (or yellow and blue) that tracked involuntary eye movements, adjusted mirrors to keep the image stable on the retina, and caused the edges between the stripes to disappear, allowing the colors to flow into each other in the brain's visual cortex and produce entirely new colors.

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2964. Usain Bolt's Record-Breaking Streak-Usain Bolt's world record in the 100-meter sprint has stood for 15 years, which is longer than anyone has held the record in history (as of August 2024). Harold Davis had it for a little over 15 years. Usain Bolt is still under 15 years but will likely eclipse it in a few months.

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2965. Fuggerei Rent Unchanged in 500 Years-In the German town of Fuggerei, the rent has remained at 0.88 euros for an entire year without an increase in 500 years. Wealthy banker Jakob Fugger established this town as a historic social housing complex in 1521 to assist Augsburg's impoverished residents. You might want to move here, but not everyone qualifies for residence here, as one must be Catholic, have lived in the city for at least 2 years, and be without debt.

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2966. Cigarette Smoke in Old Sports Photos-Old sports photos in the USA often have a blue haze to them because these sports arenas were filled with people smoking cigarettes. This is also why film sets now use hazers to recreate the same depth achieved by cigarette smoke in old pictures, which arguably enhances the lighting.

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2967. Punjabi-Mexican Marriages in California-Punjabi men who immigrated to California in the early 20th century ended up marrying Mexican women because of shared cultural similarities and legal constraints on interracial marriage. Lawmakers did not allow Punjabi women to immigrate to the United States with their male counterparts because they did not want to

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2968. Hugh Laurie’s Unusual Audition Location-Hugh Laurie shot his audition tape for House from a bathroom in Namibia, because it was the only room with enough light. While filming Flight of the Phoenix, he was in the country, and his scruffy appearance became associated with his character. Consequently, he maintained a similar scruffy look for nearly the next decade.

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2969. Benjamin Franklin's Older Women Preference-Benjamin Franklin was fond of dating older women and famously wrote eight reasons why they were better than their younger counterparts. Among these, he asserted that older women naturally provided birth control, were discreet, and were indistinguishable from younger women from the girdle downward.

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2970. Klaus Barbie Exposed by Fake Interview-Klaus Barbie, a Nazi war criminal hiding in Bolivia after World War II, was tricked into revealing his true identity during a fake interview by being asked a question in French, a language he wasn't supposed to understand. The United States government directly facilitated Barbie's escape from the law and protected him, despite France's criminal charges against him. As a result, Barbie did not stand trial in France in 1950, spending 33 years as a free man and fugitive from justice.

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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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