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4981. Jimi Hendrix Fire Guitar-In order to get Paul McCartney on board with the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, the festival organizers had to guarantee a performance slot for The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Jimi closed his performance by setting fire to his guitar, making him an instant rock star.

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4982. Australian Ice Imports-Prior to the development of practical refrigeration technology in 1851, Australia had to import ice from Boston, Massachusetts. Ships insulated with wood, straw, peat, and sawdust brought ice chunks through the tropics.

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4983. Creme Brulee-Creme Brulee has been around for a very long time—at least 700 years, to be exact, since it was first mentioned in a cookbook written in the 14th century. The recipe called for custard cream to be poured over sugar and then torched with a hot iron rod. Crema Catalan was the name of this dish, and it was substantially identical to the contemporary Creme Brulee.

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4984. Kola Coca-Kola Coca was developed in Spain in 1880. It was presented at a contest in Philadelphia in 1885, and it won an award. A year later, Coca-Cola was born and marketed in the USA.

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4985. Universal Remedy-Before the negative effects of tobacco on health were shown in the 20th century, it was praised in Europe for hundreds of years as a

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4986. Dunce Caps-Historically speaking, wearing a dunce cap was a symbol of great enlightenment and knowledge. Fans of philosopher and theologian John Duns Scotus, known as Dunsmen because of their distinctive pointed hats, believed that the style helped focus thought and absorb information. The Dunsmen were considered

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4987. Nevada State-Nevada did not have the southern point where Las Vegas is presently located when it became a state in 1864. Before 1866, Arizona claimed the land, but Congress gave it to Nevada as a reward for the state's loyalty to the Union.

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4988. Ragamuffin Day-During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, youngsters in the New York City region celebrated Ragamuffin Day by dressing up in costumes and knocking on neighbors' doors on Thanksgiving Day to beg for sweets or money. As trick-or-treating became more common on Halloween in the 1940s and 1950s, it gradually went out of style.

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4989. Napoleon Tiara-As a gift to the pope, Napoleon once presented him with a tiara (a crown) encrusted with 3,345 individual valuable gems. The tiara weighed 18 pounds and was too small to fit on a human head; therefore, it was meant as an insult. The original gems of the tiara were removed by Pope Benedict XV and replaced with colored glass replicas. Funds from the sale of the gems were used to aid the victims of the First World War.

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4990. Mimizuka Shrine-During Toyotomi Hideyoshi's conquests of Korea in the 1590s, he collected 68,000 Korean and Chinese noses, which are now enshrined at the Mimizuka shrine in Kyoto, Japan. At least 1 million Koreans and Chinese were slaughtered by the Japanese, and at least 215,000 heads were taken by the Japanese as war spoils.

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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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