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3541. UFC Purchase Drama and Domain-When Dana White and the Fertittas purchased the UFC in 2001 for $2 million, they acquired only the brand name and an old octagon. Other assets, including the domain name UFC.com, had already been sold to a company named 'User Friendly Computers.'

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3542. Glass Frogs: Transparent Survival-To evade predators, glass frogs remove nearly 90% of their circulating blood cells while asleep, storing their entire circulatory system in one organ, making them almost transparent.

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3543. Japanese Calendar's 72 Seasons-The Japanese calendar is divided into 72 seasons, reflecting nuances of weather and nature such as

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3544. Elf's Macy's Rejection and Alternate Setting-The production team of

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3545. Trench Rats: WWI's Unwanted Companions-Trench rats were such a nuisance during WWI that they are considered one of the worst aspects of living in the trenches. Only high-ranking individuals were provided with anti-rat beds, and there are even reports of rats injuring soldiers' foreheads, leading to visits to the infirmary.

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3546. Zaire's World Cup Underperformance Protest-After Zaire, now known as DR Congo, lost all their matches at the 1974 FIFA World Cup, the players were forbidden to leave their home country to prevent them from playing for European clubs with offers that came in after the World Cup. The team, although genuinely quite skilled, was promised payments that their government failed to provide. In response to this unmet commitment, they deliberately underperformed during the tournament.

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3547. Commodus' Foiled Poisoning and Strangling-When the mistress of Roman Emperor Commodus discovered her name on a list of people Commodus wanted executed, she and others attempted to poison him. Failing that, they had his wrestling partner, who trained him for his gladiator appearances, strangle him while he was in the bath.

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3548. Gettysburg's Sole Civilian Casualty-There was only one civilian casualty during the Battle of Gettysburg. After fleeing to her sister's house from the initial fighting, Mary Wade was hit by a stray bullet while baking bread for the retreating Union army.

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3549. Canada's National Parks: Unusual Builders-Many of Canada's National Parks were constructed by suspected enemies of the state, conscientious objectors, and the unemployed. In 1943, 440 German POWs were brought to Riding Mountain National Park, where they captured a bear and adopted it as the camp mascot.

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3550. Nixon's Daylight Savings Time Fluctuation-In January 1974, Nixon signed a law making Daylight Savings Time year-round for two years. However, by October 1974, Gerald Ford had reversed it due to its unpopularity during the winter months.

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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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