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3751. Ulysses S. Grant Sold Firewood-Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. President, struggled to make a living as a farmer in the 1850s and resorted to selling firewood on street corners in St. Louis.

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3752. Comet Hyakutake's Record Tail-Comet Hyakutake holds the record for the longest known tail of any comet, stretching 3.3 AU (astronomical units) or 307 million miles from its nucleus. We last observed it from Earth in 1996, and it won't return to the solar system for another 70,000 years.

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3753. French Town Hallucinations From Bread-In 1951, over 250 people in Pont-Saint-Esprit, France, suffered hallucinations, madness, and illness after eating contaminated bread. The incident, which caused seven deaths, was later attributed to ergot, a fungus found in rye flour.

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3754. Chefs Serving World Leaders Group-Le Club des Chefs des Chefs, an international organization of chefs serving world leaders, includes members such as the head chef of King Charles III, the White House, and the presidents of India and South Africa.

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3755. Corrupt Official Escaped 68 Times-Gayus Tambunan, an Indonesian tax official on trial for corruption, bribed his way out of prison 68 times. In 2010, during one of his escapes, his poorly executed disguise led to his recognition at a tennis match in Bali.

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3756. Simulated Cricket Sounds on Radio-In the early days of cricket broadcasts on Australian radio, commentators would simulate the sound of the batsman striking the ball by tapping their pencils near the microphone.

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3757. Russia’s Beard Tax Introduced-In 1698, Peter I of Russia introduced a beard tax to encourage men to adopt European-style grooming. Peter I even tasked a special police force with forcibly shaving those who hadn't paid the tax.

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3758. Berlin Airlift’s Massive Humanitarian Effort-The Berlin Airlift (1948-1949) was a massive humanitarian effort during which Allied forces flew over 92 million miles (148,000,000 km, or nearly the distance from Earth to the Sun) to deliver food and supplies to West Berlin after the Soviet Union blockaded the city.

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3759. Course Helps Overcome Flight Fear-British Airways runs a

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3760. Whale Farts Create Large Bubbles-Whales sometimes fart, producing bubbles the size of watermelons. Observers have described the smell as a mix of herring breath and rotten salad. Seals are also known for their particularly noisy farts.

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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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