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3821. Silk Moths: Humanity's Co-dependent Companions-Humans domesticated the silk moth 5,000 years ago for sericulture. Over time, they lost their ability to fly, became unafraid of predators, and even lost their native color pigments as camouflage was no longer necessary in captivity. They have become entirely reliant on humans for their survival, including the search for a mate.

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3822. The Enigma of the Coastline Paradox-The Coastline Paradox highlights the impossibility of accurately measuring the length of a country's coastline. Paradoxically, the more precise the measurement, the greater the length appears to be, sometimes even approaching infinity.

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3823. Donkey Kong's Silent Gorilla Voices-The creators of Donkey Kong Country initially intended for the Kongs to be voiced by actual gorillas. They spent hours recording gorillas at a zoo, only to discover that gorillas are notably quiet animals. Left without the sounds they needed; they had a programmer imitate gorilla sounds instead.

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3824. Spock's Home Planet Evolution-Originally conceived as a Martian character, Spock's home in Star Trek was changed to the fictional planet Vulcan by Gene Roddenberry. This alteration was made due to Roddenberry's concern that humans might land on Mars during the show's runtime, making the concept appear outdated.

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3825. France's Unique Happy Hour Rule-In France, bars are prohibited from offering a Happy Hour promotion without simultaneously reducing the prices of non-alcoholic drinks.

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3826. Border Loophole's Dark Secrets-A territorial loophole caused by the changing of a river's course in 1843 created a de facto lawless zone along the Dutch and Belgium borders. This area gained notoriety for hosting illegal raves, drug deals, and prostitution. The loophole was finally closed in 2018 after the discovery of a headless corpse within its confines.

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3827. Howler Monkeys and Their Testicles-The loudness of a howler monkey’s calls is proportionate to the size of its testicles, as researchers have observed that smaller testicles are associated with louder monkeys.

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3828. MLB's Ball Consumption and Cost-Major League Baseball (MLB) consumes an average of 84 to 120 baseballs per game, totaling approximately 900,000 balls in a season at an estimated cost of around $10 million.

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3829. Apollo 11's One-Armed Photographer-During the historic Apollo 11 moon landing, Neil Armstrong operated the Hasselblad camera, and the majority of the photographs he took were of his fellow astronaut, Buzz Aldrin. Only one photograph of Armstrong, captured by Aldrin while he was engrossed in experiments, exists from that momentous day.

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3830. Wachovia's Money Laundering Scandal-The now-defunct bank Wachovia laundered an astonishing $378.4 billion between 2004 and 2007 on behalf of the Mexican and Colombian cartels. They had to forfeit $110 million but were only fined $50 million.

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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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