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3981. Origin of a Joke-The famous

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3982. Hirohito & Yasukuni-Emperor Hirohito of Japan during World War II officially decided not to visit Yasukuni Shrine upon learning that war criminals were enshrined there. This decision has been upheld by every subsequent Emperor and member of the royal family.

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3983. Rare Pokémon Cards-Official Pokémon cards featuring Katy Perry, Post Malone, and J Balvin were created for the 25th anniversary album, but they were never produced in large quantities. There are no plans to sell these extremely rare cards because Katy Perry, Post Malone, and J Balvin are the only ones who own them.

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3984. Twin Tower Steel-Debris from the World Trade Center post-9/11 was sold to the scrap metal industry, which then sold the structural steel to second-hand metal markets in China and India. Various buildings across Indian cities, including a college and a trade center, were constructed using Twin Tower steel.

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3985. Diverse Thinking Styles-People engage in different thinking styles. Some think verbally, forming associations with spoken words (e.g., talking to themselves internally), while others think visually in images. Additionally, there are individuals who utilize both verbal and visual thinking styles.

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3986. Berlin's Self-Presentation-Irving Berlin holds the unique distinction of being the sole Academy Award winner who presented the award to himself. He secured the award for writing 'White Christmas' and openly acknowledged the awkwardness of opening the envelope. This prompted a change in the rules to prevent such occurrences in the future.

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3987. Smithsonian's Submarine Names-During World War II, the Smithsonian devised new fish names that were easily pronounceable so that the Navy could name submarines after them.

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3988. Bovril: Beef Paste-In the UK, a dense beef paste known as Bovril is spread on toast or reconstituted into

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3989. Unusual Cholera Cure-In the 1830s, during the resurgence of cholera in London, a prescribed remedy involved injecting turpentine and mutton stew rectally.

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3990. 'Barrel Monster' Art-In Raleigh, North Carolina, a man created an extensive street art sculpture termed the 'barrel monster' using stolen construction barrels. Despite the construction company appreciating the art and the publicity it generated and refraining from pressing charges, the man faced arrest.

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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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