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4071. Colonel Sanders' KFC Visits-After Colonel Sanders sold KFC, he continued making surprise visits to KFC restaurants. If he was disappointed with the food, he'd label it

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4072. Goonies Director's Hawaii Surprise-The director of The Goonies, Richard Donner, was eager to return home to Hawaii after a demanding shoot with a cast of kids. He said,

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4073. Mystery of pH Scale's

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4074. HP's Repeated Laptop Keyloggers-HP has been repeatedly caught shipping laptops like the EliteBook, ProBook, Pavilion, and Envy with keyloggers that record keystrokes to a local file accessible by anyone. A cybersecurity firm's alarming discovery affected over 460 laptop models, and this issue occurred multiple times.

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4075. MLB's Playday Perks-A single day of play in the MLB grants players lifetime healthcare coverage, while playing for 43 days guarantees an annual $34,000 pension. The pension also increases with the amount of time spent on an active roster. After 10 years, players will get the maximum of $230,000. Their families get to be on the healthcare plan too.

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4076. Missouri's Lax Alcohol Laws-Missouri boasts some of the loosest alcohol laws in the US due to industry influence. Hard liquor can be sold in grocery stores and gas stations; bars can double as liquor stores; public intoxication is legal; and open containers are permitted in most areas, including by passengers in vehicles.

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4077. Lid Down: Less Airborne Particles-Flushing a toilet with the lid down could potentially reduce airborne particles by up to 50%.

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4078. Phantom Time Conspiracy-The Phantom Time Conspiracy Theory posits that the time period from A.D. 614 to 911 never existed. According to this theory, these extra 300 years of history were fabricated during the Middle Ages to legitimize Otto's claim over the Holy Roman Empire, suggesting that we should be living in the year 1700s.

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4079. Tornado-Saving Basketball Shot-In 2008, a single basketball shot may have saved hundreds of lives. Alabama player Mykal Riley made a critical 3-point shot, pushing the game into overtime just moments before an EF-2 Tornado passed by. Had he missed that shot, hundreds of fans could have been in the parking lot when the tornado struck.

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4080. Harbingers of Market Failure-There are consumers known as harbingers of failure, who often buy products that turn out to be market flops. When these individuals buy a product at least three times, the probability of that product's success drops by 56%.

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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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