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4671. Girl Sent By Parcel Post-In 1914, a 4-year-old girl named Charlotte May Pierstorff, was sent via parcel post because her parents found it cheaper than buying a train ticket. Weighing just under the 50-pound limit, she traveled in the train's mail compartment with a stamp on her jacket and was safely delivered to her grandmother by the mail clerk on duty.

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4672. Thief Steals $136M Jewelry Suitcase-In 2013, a thief pulled off a daring heist at Cannes by breaking into a lightly guarded room and stealing a suitcase containing 72 pieces of jewelry worth $136 million. A billionaire planned to showcase the jewelry in a private exhibition.

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4673. Metabolism Stable Until Age Sixty-Contrary to popular belief, human metabolism doesn't significantly slow down until after age 60.

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4674. Beethoven’s Hidden Hearing Struggles-Beethoven kept his hearing loss a secret. In an unsent letter to his brother, he explained that people wrongly perceived him as antisocial. He longed for human connection but became a recluse out of shame for his condition, which even led him to contemplate suicide.

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4675. Hendrix’s Whiskey Funeral Coping Lesson-When Jimi Hendrix's mother passed away, his father prohibited him and his brother from attending the funeral. Instead, he gave them shots of whiskey, telling them it was the

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4676. Eyebrows Crucial For Face Recognition-Researchers have discovered that removing eyebrows from pictures of familiar faces significantly reduced recognition accuracy-much more than removing the eyes.

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4677. Gunshot Mystery Solved After Eight Months-In 2010, authorities found Greg Fleniken dead in his locked Texas hotel room, showing no external injuries but severe internal damage. After an 8-month investigation, authorities revealed that a drunken guest in the neighboring room had accidentally fired a gun, fatally striking Fleniken in the scrotum.

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4678. Vaults: Cell Biology’s Mysterious Structures-One of the most enigmatic structures in cell biology is the vault. Discovered 40 years ago, these giant, half-empty structures exist in nearly every cell of every animal on the planet. Their mysterious nature often keeps them excluded from science textbooks.

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4679. Cannibal Warlord Turns Into Preacher-A former warlord and self-confessed cannibal, General Butt Naked, now serves as a preacher. During the Liberian Civil War, he led the Naked Base Commandos, a group of child soldiers, committing atrocities like child sacrifices and cannibalism. He has never faced prosecution despite admitting to killing over 20,000 people, and he currently focuses on rehabilitating former child soldiers.

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4680. Cruel Guillotine Execution Mocked Crowd-During the French Revolution, Jacques Hébert's public execution became a cruel spectacle. Executioners rigged the guillotine blade to stop inches from his neck three times to amuse the crowd before finally carrying out the execution.

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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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