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4121. Hymie Weiss: A Fearless Gangster-Hymie Weiss, a Chicago gangster, had terminal cancer, which made him recklessly ignore his own safety. Leading a gang war against Al Capone, Weiss shot up Capone's car and hotel, earning the reputation of

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4122. Ali's Post-Fight Slowed Speech-Muhammad Ali's speaking rate slowed by 16 percent after his 1977 15-round fight against Ernie Shavers.

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4123. Scarface: Oscar Snub and Razzie-The movie

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4124. John Doyle's Double Predicament-In 1993, a man named John Doyle survived a great white shark attack while surfing off the coast of West Africa. However, lions mauled him on his way to the hospital. Remarkably, he survived both attacks and made a full recovery.

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4125. Conscious After Cardiac Arrest-In a 2014 study involving over 2,000 people who had experienced cardiac arrest, it was revealed that 40% of the survivors were aware that they were clinically dead and that their hearts were being restarted. Some remained conscious for up to 3 minutes after the attack.

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4126. Columbus' Deceptive Land Claim-When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World, a reward was set for whoever first sighted land. Although one of his crewmen was the first to report, Columbus falsely claimed he'd spotted land the previous night, thereby securing the reward for himself.

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4127. Treasure Hunter's Hidden Secrets-In 2000, American treasure hunter Tommy Thompson successfully found millions of dollars' worth of gold coins from the SS Central America. He then went on the run, refusing to pay his debts, and now claims to have memory loss regarding the location of 500 hidden gold coins while serving time in jail (as of July 2023).

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4128. First Female FBI Agent-Alaska P. Davidson was the first female special agent that the Bureau of Investigation hired in 1922. However, she was forced to resign by Director J. Edgar Hoover in 1924. No female officers were rehired until 1972.

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4129. Bunker Buster Ends Conflict-In an attempt to reach Saddam Hussein, who was hiding in bunkers too deep for conventional bombs, the US filled a 16-foot hardened steel artillery barrel with explosives, added fins, and airdropped it, creating the first

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4130. Debunking Lactic Acid Myth-The belief that lactic acid causes muscle soreness after a workout was debunked in the 1980s. Research suggests that the soreness is a result of physiological effects triggered by microscopic trauma sustained during intense exercise.

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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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