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4041. Ford Model T’s Price Drop-When Ford released the Model T in 1908, it cost $825 (equivalent to about $28,000 in 2023). Despite its popularity (around 15 million were eventually sold), Ford kept dropping the price. By 1925, the basic model cost only $260, or about $4,500 today.

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4042. The Penguin Naming Confusion-The birds we call penguins today are actually not true penguins. They were named after an extinct species due to their similar appearance, but no true penguins are alive today.

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4043. Nazi Infant Care Controversy-Nazi physician Johanna Haarer advocated a child-rearing approach that placed newborns in a separate room from their mother for the first three months of life, allowing only strictly regulated, 20-minute breastfeeding visits.

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4044. Suicide Through Capital Crimes-In the Middle Ages, some suicidal individuals feared eternal damnation from directly ending their lives. Instead, they would commit a capital crime against an innocent child, then turn themselves in and demand execution.

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4045. Self-Sued Search Warrant Victory-In 1957, a man sued his own search warrant and won the case in the Supreme Court. In Marcus v. Search Warrant, he argued the warrant was too vague. Since the agents had acted within the law, he had no recourse but to challenge the warrant itself.

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4046. Female Gladiators Banned by Severus-In 200 CE, Roman Emperor Septimius Severus banned all female gladiatorial combat. He reportedly made this decision after hearing lewd jokes aimed at women in athletic contests, fearing that such events bred disrespect toward all women.

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4047. WWII Pilot G-Force Blackouts-During WWII, pilots frequently blacked out during sharp turns as strong G-forces caused blood to pool in their legs. British ace Douglas Bader, who had lost his legs in an accident, did not experience this problem since he used prosthetics.

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4048. Harrison’s Scandalous Marriage Choice-U.S. President Benjamin Harrison became a widower in 1892 while serving in office. Four years later, he married his late wife's niece and had a daughter with her. His adult children, horrified by their father marrying their cousin, refused to attend the wedding.

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4049. The Tiny Zeptosecond Unit-A zeptosecond-a trillionth of a billionth of a second-is the smallest unit of time ever measured.

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4050. Hotel Ice Machines’ Origins-Hotels in the U.S. now routinely stock ice, a practice that began in the 1950s when the Holiday Inn chain aimed to set itself apart by offering this amenity to guests.

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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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