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3081. Billy Mitchell's Video Game Lawsuit-In 2015, Billy Mitchell filed a lawsuit against Cartoon Network, claiming that a character who cheats at video games in the series Regular Show infringed on his likeness. Years later, the legitimacy of a number of his records was called into question, leading to them being stripped.

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3082. Prince's Symbol and Floppy Disks-When Prince changed his name to a symbol, Warner Bros. distributed floppy disks to major news outlets containing the digital representation of the symbol.

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3083. Topgun References at Training-Referencing the movie Topgun or its sequel while at training at the Topgun school incurs an immediate $5 fine for all personnel because it is seen as conflicting with the institute's atmosphere of professionalism.

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3084. Donnie Yen's Hong Kong Brawl-In the 1990s, Donnie Yen (known for his roles in Ip Man, Star Wars, and John Wick) and his girlfriend Joey Meng were leaving a club in Hong Kong when they were attacked by a group of men who had been bothering them earlier that night. Donnie hospitalized all eight of them.

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3085. Toxoplasma Gondii and Human Behavior-There is a parasite that can infect the human brain and alter our behavior. Toxoplasma gondii infection can cause road rage, increase the chances of dying in a road accident, and much more.

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3086. Osceola's Unsettling Fate-Osceola was a prominent Native American leader, and the doctor who attended to him ignored Osceola's dying wish to be buried in Florida. Instead, the doctor removed Osceola's head after his death and displayed it in his drug store. When his children misbehaved, the doctor would move the head to their room for the night.

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3087. David Bowie's Name Evolution-David Bowie was born David Jones. When starting out, Davy Jones of The Monkees was already famous, so he had to choose a different stage name. His first choice was Tom Jones.

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3088. Mystery of Jennifer Fairgate-In 1995, a woman who went by the name Jennifer Fairgate was found dead in a locked Oslo hotel room with a gunshot wound to the head. Ballistics showed that suicide was not possible. Yet there were fingerprints, and strangely, her clothing labels were all removed, making it impossible to identify her. Theories speculate that she was a spy.

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3089. Burger King's Whopper Spa-In 2016, Burger King opened a spa in one of its restaurants in Helsinki, Finland. Customers could enjoy a Whopper while sitting in the 15-seater sauna room, and the spa also featured showers, PlayStation, TVs, and beverages, with the price set at $283 per person.

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3090. Feels Like Temperature Explanation-The

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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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