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3521. Grande's Royalties: A Musical Twist-Ariana Grande receives less than 10% of the royalties for her 2019 single

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3522. Legal Kidnapping in the U.S.-Gooning is a form of legal kidnapping in the US, where a parent can hire someone to abduct a troubled child at night and bring them to a boarding school or behavior modification facility.

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3523. WWII: Parachute-less Escape Confirmation-During World War II, when the Germans captured a British bomber tail gunner who claimed to have jumped out of his plane at 5500 meters without a parachute, they investigated, confirmed his claim, and issued him a certificate to validate his story.

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3524. Bannister's Record-Breaking NHS Day-In 1954, when Roger Bannister became the first person to run a mile in under 4 minutes, he was working as a doctor in the NHS. On the day he broke the record, he had already completed a morning shift at St. Mary's Hospital in London and then caught the train to Oxford, where he ran the race.

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3525. Virginia Towns Ban Trick-or-Treating-In 2018, multiple Virginia towns banned trick-or-treating for anyone over the age of 12. For instance, according to the Chesapeake, Virginia, city code in 2018, violators could face a fine and up to 6 months in jail.

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3526. NASA's 1-900 Line and Challenger-In the 1980s, NASA had a 1-900 number that charged $2 for the first minute and $0.45 for each additional minute. It allowed callers to listen to a mission status report and mid-flight press conferences. Thousands of callers heard the Challenger explosion in real time.

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3527. Microwave Danger: Residual Lethality-An unplugged microwave carries enough residual current to be lethal, even if it's been unplugged for months. Therefore, never attempt to repair a broken microwave unless you know how to discharge the capacitor.

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3528. Exercise Paradox: Hunter-Gatherers vs. Office Workers-The exercise paradox highlights that hunter-gatherers who trekked miles daily (or climbed up trees) burned the same amount of calories as much less active office workers and machine operators.

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3529. Leap Year Correction by Thomas Fuller-Thomas Fuller, an enslaved African and mental calculator, was once asked how many seconds a man has lived in 70 years, 17 days, and 12 hours. He replied with 2,210,500,800. When told he was wrong, Fuller said,

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3530. Schumacher's Tsunami Donation Tragedy-In the aftermath of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, Michael Schumacher made the highest individual donation, contributing $10 million to the victims. The disaster claimed over 220,000 lives, and tragically, Schumacher's bodyguard, Burkhard Cramer, along with Cramer's two sons, lost their lives in the tsunami.

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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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