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3201. Tragic Creation of Hildegart-Aurora Rodríguez Carballeira, a self-taught Spanish woman with no formal education, sought to create an ideal human being through her daughter, Hildegart, who was born in 1914. By age 2, Hildegart was reading, and by 8, she spoke four languages. She entered law school at 13 and became a professor at 18. However, when Hildegart attempted to run away at 19, her mother tragically killed her.

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3202. Ash Ketchum's Pokémon Catch Rate-Ash Ketchum caught only 57 unique Pokémon throughout the cartoon series, which is roughly 7% of all the Pokémon available to him.

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3203. Navinder Sarao and Flash Crash-Navinder Sarao, an autistic man living in his parents' London home, partially caused the 2010 Flash Crash, during which the US stock market temporarily lost $1 trillion in value. Over five years, Sarao profited $40 million by using custom algorithms to trick high-frequency traders.

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3204. Alanis Morissette’s Label Rejection-Alanis Morissette was dropped by her record label after disappointing sales of her first two albums. However, her third album, Jagged Little Pill, became the 13th highest-selling album of all time worldwide.

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3205. Kennedy's Secret Service Hangover-At least nine of President Kennedy's Secret Service agents were recovering from an all-night bender that ended at 5:00 AM on the day of his assassination.

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3206. Globetrotters' Unexpected Loss-During a 1990 match against the Washington Generals, the Harlem Globetrotters lost track of the game and found themselves down by 12 points with just 2 minutes left. Forced to play conventional basketball, they rallied but couldn't recover. The final buzzer left the crowd dumbfounded and disappointed, with some children in the stands even crying after the loss.

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3207. Wettlaufer's Confession Ignored-Canadian serial killer nurse Elizabeth Wettlaufer confessed to her pastor that she had murdered four people between 2011 and 2013, and he kept his promise not to turn her in. She also told a lawyer, a priest, and a sponsor from Alcoholics or Narcotics Anonymous, none of whom came forward. Elizabeth went on to murder two more people before her arrest in 2016.

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3208. Shyamalan's 'Split' Sequel Surprise-Because M. Night Shyamalan funded the movie ‘Split’ himself, Universal executives were unaware that it was a sequel to his film ‘Unbreakable’ until they first screened it. The executives were

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3209. Kurt Lee's Mandarin Orders-Kurt Lee, the first Chinese-American officer in the US Marine Corps, yelled orders in Mandarin Chinese during the Battle of Inchon in the Korean War to confuse the opposing Chinese troops.

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3210. Gibraltar's Forgotten City Status-Gibraltar applied for city status in 2022, lost the bid, but later became a city anyway after researchers discovered that Queen Victoria had granted it city status 180 years earlier, a fact that had been forgotten.

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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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