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3671. The Priciest Domain Name-The domain name

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3672. Disney's Hitchcock Refusal-Walt Disney adamantly declined Alfred Hitchcock's request to film at Disneyland in the early 1960s, citing Hitchcock's association with the film

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3673. U.S. Army's Wabash Tragedy-In 1791, during the Battle of Wabash, approximately one-quarter of the entire U.S. Army suffered devastation in a single day at the hands of Native American forces.

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3674. Pen is Mightier Origin-Author Edward Bulwer-Lytton first used the specific phrase

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3675. Tragic Sacrifice for Kamikaze-When Japanese pilot Lieutenant Hajime Fujii was accepted into the Kamikaze program, his wife tragically took her own life along with their 1 and 4-year-old daughters by drowning them in a river. This heartbreaking act was intended to eliminate any potential distractions hindering Fujii from carrying out his mission.

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3676. Elephants Understand Pointing-Elephants are the only wild animals known to comprehend pointing gestures without requiring human training.

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3677. Unusual Blood Substitutes-Following William Harvey's discovery of blood circulation in 1616, there were attempts to use fluids such as beer, urine, milk, and non-human animal blood as substitutes for human blood.

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3678. Sandler's Global Popularity-Despite his movies frequently underperforming in the United States, Adam Sandler enjoys massive popularity in the international market, particularly in Latin America.

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3679. The Ghost Ship Baychimo-The SS Baychimo, abandoned by its crew in 1931, drifted aimlessly along the coast of Alaska for 38 years and was last sighted in 1969.

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3680. Record Hiccup Endurance-Charles Osborne, who experienced about 30 hiccups per minute from 1922 to 1990, holds the world record for the longest bout of hiccups at 68 years.

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36 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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