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4451. The Rise and Fall of Tunnel of Love-Tunnel of Love rides were popular at amusement parks in the early 20th century because they were one of the only socially acceptable opportunities for couples to be alone together on a date and share physical contact. By 1950, there were over 700 in the USA. Nowadays, there are less than 10.

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4452. Escape from Tsunami-Those who use their cars to escape tsunamis often get stuck in traffic jams or encounter other obstacles and are, therefore, more likely to be swept away. The best way to escape is on foot, climbing up any nearby steep slopes as quickly as possible.

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4453. Irene of Athens' Reign-Irene of Athens (750-803 CE) was the first sole-ruling empress in Roman history. After her husband, the emperor, died, she had her son's eyes gouged out and imprisoned him, becoming the sole ruler for five years. She was eventually exiled to the island of Lesbos and forced to support herself by spinning wool.

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4454. Accidental 911 Calls-If you accidentally call 911, do not hang up. Instead, inform the dispatcher that it was a mistake so they are aware there is no emergency.

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4455. Operation Nemesis-Operation Nemesis was a secret plan executed by Armenia to hunt down and assassinate the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide. The assassins successfully killed 11 of the highest-ranking officials responsible for orchestrating the genocide across at least 5 different countries.

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4456. Dumb Ways to Die-Dumb Ways to Die, the world's most shared Public Service Announcement (PSA), hit the internet in November 2012. It was launched by Metro Trains Melbourne to promote rail safety.

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4457. Zed vs. Zee-Most English-speaking countries around the world pronounce the letter

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4458. Cold Shivers and Exercise-Shivering for fifteen minutes due to cold temperatures can have the same metabolic effect as one hour of exercise.

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4459. U-shaped Toilet Seat-The U-shaped toilet seat was designed to give women plenty of room to wipe without having to stand up or touch the seat directly.

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4460. Nazi Saboteurs in America-The Nazis trained and sent two teams of saboteurs to America, but they were caught on the first day. Only two escaped execution and one of the leaders even contacted the FBI to surrender and demanded a meeting with Hoover to surrender.

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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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