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4351. Flappy Bird: Addictive Hit Game-Released in May 2013, Flappy Bird became a sleeper hit in early 2014. By the end of January, it was the most downloaded free game on the iOS App Store, earning its developer $50,000 daily. However, he removed it, citing guilt over the game's addictive nature and excessive use.

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4352. Burger King Pays Wedding Costs-In 2015, a man named Joel Burger married Ashley King. To celebrate the union, Burger King paid for their wedding.

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4353. George Harrison’s Final Letter to Myers-On November 29, 2001, Mike Myers received the final letter George Harrison ever wrote. A fan of satire, Harrison handwrote the letter to express his admiration for Myers' Austin Powers movies. Myers received it on the set of Austin Powers 3 the same day Harrison passed away.

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4354. World's Oldest Wine Barrel Tasted-The oldest barrel of drinkable wine, produced in 1472, has only been tasted three times: in 1576 to celebrate an alliance, in 1716 after a fire, and in 1944 when Strasbourg was liberated during World War II.

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4355. Chinese Eunuchs' Remarkable Civil Roles-Chinese eunuchs, who had both their penis and testicles removed in a single procedure, served as high-ranking civil servants. They were considered

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4356. Orangutan Star's Hollywood Downfall-Joe Martin, a captive Hollywood orangutan actor from the black-and-white era, starred in over 50 silent films and lived a life resembling that of a free human. He wore clothes, carried his own keys, attended film premieres, and even worked with children. Unfortunately, his career ended after he attacked multiple people, leading to his downfall.

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4357. Martha Stewart Convicted for Lying-Martha Stewart did not go to prison for insider trading. Instead, she was convicted of lying to the FBI.

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4358. Will Smith, Adam Sandler Blockbusters-Movies starring or produced by Will Smith or Adam Sandler generated $3.7 billion in gross revenue from 2000 to 2015. These films contributed 20% of Sony Pictures' domestic gross and 23% of its profits during that period, making the studio heavily reliant on these two actors.

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4359. Idiocracy’s Disappointing Box Office Run-Despite its popularity and cult following, the movie Idiocracy grossed only $495,303 at the box office, far below its production budget of $2.4 million.

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4360. Switzerland Ends Tipping Practice-Switzerland abolished tipping in 1974, following a tax dispute over gratuities. Prices incorporated service charges and replaced tipping with higher wages.

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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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