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3221. Germany's Paris Gun Legacy-During World War I, Germany built the Paris Gun, one of the longest and largest artillery guns ever made. The gun's massive size led to significant wear and tear with each shot, necessitating the firing of shells in increasing diameters and in the correct order.

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3223. Ivy League Freshmen Nude Photos-Several elite Ivy League colleges in the United States, including those attended by many famous people, took nude photos of every incoming freshman from the 1940s to the 1970s. They conducted this practice to assess the prevalence and severity of rickets, scoliosis, and lordosis in the population.

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3224. Norihiro's Swordsmith Achievements-Miyairi Norihiro, a contemporary Japanese swordsmith, achieved the distinction of being the youngest individual to earn the title of mukansa, a title exclusive to master swordsmiths. He also won the Masamune prize in 2010, awarded for the most outstanding sword, though none of his blades are recognized as ōwazamono, a category for exceptionally sharp swords, as his blades have never been tested on a cadaver or living person.

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3225. Red and Blue Political Colors-In U.S. politics, Republicans have consistently been associated with the color red and Democrats with blue only since the 2000 election, a choice made by The New York Times because

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3226. Wrestler's Medal Refusal-In 2013, Indian wrestler Yogeshwar Dutt refused an Olympic silver medal upgrade after the original Russian medalist tested positive posthumously, wishing for the late athlete's family to keep the medal out of respect.

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3227. Longest Javelin Throw Technique-On October 24, 1956, Pentti Saarikoski set the longest javelin throw record at 99.52 meters, using a technique in which he held the end of the javelin. This technique was considered so

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3228. Samurai Descendants in Spain-In the Spanish town of Coria del Rio, 700 residents are descendants of Hasekura Tsunenaga, a 17th-century samurai who settled there after a Japanese embassy returned home. These residents carry the surname

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3229. Pliny's Yogurt Mention-The oldest writings mentioning yogurt are attributed to Pliny the Elder, a Roman author and naturalist who lived in the 1st century AD. He noted that certain

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3230. Pink's Ambiguous Song Lyrics-Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes wrote Pink's hit song

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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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