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3491. Austrian McDonald's Embassy Assistance-In Austria, Americans can go to any McDonald's to get in touch with the U.S. Embassy if they need help. McDonald's locations in Austria and the U.S. Embassy in Vienna established this under a new partnership.

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3492. St. Nicholas' Secret Gift-Giving-Saint Nicholas' reputation as a secret gift-giver originates from him discreetly funding three poor girls' dowries so that they wouldn't be forced into prostitution.

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3494. Chinese Sailors on Kenyan Island-The entire population of a village on the Kenyan island of Pate is descended from medieval Chinese sailors. The story is that when Chinese merchants came to the island to trade with the locals, they ended up running aground. They then decided to settle and marry local women.

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3495. Rudolph's Copyright Until 2034-Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer remains under copyright protection until 2034. He has the rare distinction of being an iconic Christmas character that is not in the public domain. This is why most Christmas art and decorations do not include him due to licensing fees.

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3496. Ice in Biosphere and Its Phases-Virtually all of the ice in the earth's biosphere is known as Ice I. At higher pressures, though, there are 19 known different phases of ice.

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3497. Hollywood's 'Twin Films' Phenomenon-For decades, different studios in Hollywood have simultaneously released two films with strikingly similar plots, a phenomenon known as 'Twin Films' (e.g., Madagascar & The Wild, Antz & A Bug's Life).

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3498. Rosalynn Carter's Active Role-Rosalynn Carter sat in on Jimmy Carter's presidential cabinet meetings and took notes, so she would always know what was going on. She was also the first First Lady to have her own office in the East Wing.

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3499. Australian Hangman Alexander Green-Alexander Green was one of the last hangmen of the Australian prison colonies, having executed around 250 people. He married a convict and during his final years on the job, became a drunkard and started botching public hangings. The public noticed his behavior, leading to his job loss and subsequent placement in a mental asylum.

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3500. Nuclear Bomb Site Tours-Sixty-five miles northwest of Las Vegas is a nuclear bomb research and waste site that has detonated over 1000 nuclear bombs between 1951 and 1992. It is one of the most contaminated places in the US. The site offers monthly public tours.

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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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