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2971. Snowpiercer's Fish Scene Deception-The distributor of the 2013 movie

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2972. Billy the Kid’s Deadly Sabotage-In 1881, when Billy the Kid, an infamous outlaw of the American Old West, learned Joe Grant, a gunslinger seeking fame, was coming to kill him, he sabotaged Grant's revolver. Grant attempted to shoot Billy in the face, and when the gun did not go off, Billy killed Grant.

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2973. Pleasure Control Experiments in 1950s-There were experiments conducted in the 1950s where researchers gave their subjects manual control over the pleasure centers of their brains through the click of a button, wired to surgically implanted electrodes. One patient clocked up 1,500 doses in a three-hour period, but overall, they showed surprising restraint, unlike rats that underwent the same procedure, which self-administered to the point of exhaustion.

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2974. North Korea’s Fake Coal Tunnels-Between 1974 and 1990, North Korea tried to dig 4 tunnels under the Demilitarized Zone, and when South Korea discovered them, North Korea painted their walls black and pretended they were coal mines. One tunnel extended a mile through solid granite in a straight line to South Korea, despite the fact that coal does not occur in granite, making the claim particularly unconvincing.

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2975. Alyssa Milano Supports Ryan White-In the 1980s, actress Alyssa Milano befriended Ryan White (a boy ostracized for having AIDS), who was a fan of her work. She appeared on The Phil Donahue Show alongside White and kissed him on the cheek to show that she could not contract the disease.

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2976. Tim Horton's Employees Arrested for Drugs-In 2000, Tim Horton's employees in Halifax were arrested for selling drugs after a store manager noticed some drive-thru customers were ordering

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2977. 40% Never Experience Nosebleeds-Around 40% of people have never had a nosebleed.

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2978. World's Only Surviving Nonuplets Born-The only nonuplets (9 babies) to survive birth were born in 2021 in Morocco to parents from Mali. They are all healthy and thriving. They were reportedly naturally conceived and born in Morocco instead of Mali due to better chances of survival in Morocco.

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2979. Chile’s Misspelled Peso Coin Mistake-In 2008, Chile minted tons of 50 peso coins that misspelled the name of their country as

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2980. RC Cola Born from Price Dispute-The creator of RC Cola developed his own formula because a Coca-Cola salesman refused to give him a reduced price for buying the syrup in bulk.

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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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