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3411. Fight Club Premiere Audience Reaction-When

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3412. Stan Lee Suffered Elder Abuse-After Stan Lee's death, it was revealed that the famous Marvel Comics writer had suffered elder abuse at the hands of various handlers and family members. They isolated him from other family members and dismissed his long-serving accountants, lawyers, and caretakers.

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3413. Apollo 13 Tax Deadline Extension-During the Apollo 13 mission, astronaut Jack Swigert realized he had forgotten to file his tax return. NASA reached out to the IRS, who granted him a deadline extension due to his status as

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3414. Lost in Mall: Tragic Death-In 2017, a 71-year-old Australian man named Bernard Gore was supposed to meet his wife and daughter at a mall in Sydney after running some errands. Instead, he exited through a door that led to a labyrinth of stairwells and was found dead three weeks later after failing to find his way out.

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3415. Missing for 30 Years Found-In 2016, Edgar Latulip, a man missing for nearly 30 years, was found alive and living just 80 miles from where he had disappeared. Latulip helped solve his own case by telling a social worker that he had a flashback and remembered his name. He had disappeared in 1986 at the age of 21, reportedly suffering from major memory loss due to a head injury.

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3416. Teen Escapes Serial Killer’s Captivity-Serial killer Richard Evonitz kidnapped, assaulted, and subjected 15-year-old Kara Robinson from South Carolina to an 18-hour ordeal in 2002. She escaped his captivity by manipulating him into lowering his guard. She subsequently helped police identify him by memorizing key details of her surroundings.

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3417. USS Wisconsin’s Fiery Retaliation-A single direct shell from a North Korean 155mm gun battery struck the USS Wisconsin in 1952. Although the damage was minimal, Wisconsin retaliated with all nine of its Mark 7 16-inch guns, completely obliterating the North Korean battery. A nearby escort ship humorously signaled,

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3418. Iceberg Lettuce’s Nutritional Shortcomings-Iceberg lettuce consists of 96% water, giving it virtually no nutritional value and providing only trace amounts of vitamins and minerals.

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3419. Hadrian’s Slave Requests Eye Back-The 2nd-century Roman Emperor Hadrian, during a fit of rage, once stabbed a slave in the eye with a pen. After calming down and feeling remorseful, he called the slave and offered him anything as compensation. The slave replied,

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3420. Jack Black’s Guitar Learning Journey-Jack Black didn't learn to play the guitar until he was 23 years old. His friend Kyle Gass taught him in exchange for food, mostly from the fast-food chain Jack in the Box.

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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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