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2981. Michelangelo’s Revenge in Last Judgement-While Michelangelo was painting The Last Judgement, Papal MC Biagio de Cesana spied on his work and complained that it was not worthy of the Sistine Chapel. In response, Michelangelo painted Biagio into the fresco as the depiction of Minos, the mythological judge of the dead in the underworld, being dragged to Hell with a snake biting his penis.

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2982. NYC Introduces Trash Bins in 2023-New York City didn't use trash bins until they introduced them in 2023 to combat the notorious rat infestation and rancid smells.

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2983. Disney’s Stationary Yeti Animatronic Issue-Because the cement supporting the Yeti in Expedition Everest isn't perfect, Disney's largest and most expensive animatronic remains in stationary mode. Disney doesn't want to risk the animatronic moving and falling on guests. (as of August 2024)

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2984. Olympic Rules for Women Spectators-Despite the popular belief that women weren't allowed to watch the ancient Olympics because the athletes competed naked, only married women couldn't attend the competition. Unmarried women were welcome, and the priestess of Demeter even had a privileged spot.

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2985. Real Squirrels Used in Tim Burton Film-Instead of using CGI, Tim Burton opted to use real squirrels in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The squirrels were trained for 10 months, and the filming was supervised by the American Humane Association to ensure none of them experienced distress.

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2986. Couple Buys Washington Town Cheap-In 2010, a couple named Neal and Maddie Love purchased the town of Wauconda, Washington, for just $360,000. It is an unincorporated community, so there is no municipal or town government.

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2987. Saladin’s Modest Funeral Estate-Before Saladin, the first Sultan of Egypt and Syria and founder of the Ayyubid dynasty, died in 1193, he had given away all his wealth to his poor subjects. His estate by then only consisted of one piece of gold and 40 pieces of silver, which was not even enough to pay for his funeral.

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2988. 20 Million Killed in Dungan Revolt-During the Chinese Islamic insurgency in the 1860s and 1870s under the Qing dynasty, over 20 million people lost their lives. The rebels, primarily Hui Muslims from the provinces of Shaanxi and Gansu, rose up against the Qing government in what became known as the Dungan Revolt. The conflict led to massive casualties, with one province losing 14 million people and the neighbouring province losing 6 million.

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2989. GIF Stored in Bacteria's DNA-In 2017, Harvard scientists were able to store a GIF animation of a galloping horse in bacteria's DNA. A GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) is a type of image file that supports animated sequences. This particular GIF was not just any animation; it was the first movie ever made, titled

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2990. Samoyeds: Poor Security Dogs-Because of their naturally amiable personalities, the Samoyed breed of dogs makes poor security dogs. They don't attack dangers; they simply smile and growl at them.

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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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