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4991. Andronico Luksic-After a Japanese corporation gave him 500,000 dollars for copper interest instead of the 500,000 Chilean pesos he had wanted, Andronico Luksic, the founder of Chile's wealthiest family, who is now estimated to be worth over 18 billion dollars, was able to significantly expand his mining business as a result. This was almost six times the amount that he had requested.

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4992. Typhoon Cobra-In December 1944, during World War II, the United States Pacific Fleet was hit by a severe tropical storm known as

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4993. Biloxi Wade-Ins-In 1959, 1960, and 1963, black people in Biloxi staged a series of wade-in protests in response to repeated incidents in which they were barred from entering a public beach. Several individuals were shot during the protests in 1960, and the beach did not become accessible to the public until 1967.

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4994. Rumble by Link Wray-Despite having no words, the 1958 song

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4995. Cats Outnumber Humans-There are around 1.5 million cats living on the island of Cyprus, which is approximately 10% the size of Ireland. This results in cats outnumbering humans on the island.

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4996. Wolverine Creation-One of the most popular X-Man characters of all time, Wolverine was created because Marvel's then editor-in-chief Roy Thomas wanted a Canadian hero to boost their comic sales in Canada.

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4997. Major Wilbert “Doug” Pearson-United States Air Force Major Wilbert

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4998. Matthew McConaughey-Matthew McConaughey was first assigned to play Marty Hart in the first season of True Detective. McConaughey however requested to switch his role to Rust Cohle due to the character's obsessive tendencies. McConaughey then created a 450-page analysis of Cohle to study the character's evolution in the series.

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4999. Gulf War Bulldozer Assault-During the Gulf War, Saddam Hussein built a defensive line filled with trenches and tunnels, hoping to engage the coalition in trench warfare similar to the ones seen during World War 1. US forces however charged ahead with modified bulldozers and simply plowed through the Iraqi trenches, burying many of their soldiers alive.

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5000. Civil Rights Act, 1964-The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was not the first such law to be passed in the U.S. It was rather the third one. The first one was passed in 1866. It was re-enacted in 1870 because many in Congress were concerned that the original law was not enforceable without the 14th Amendment. This was then overturned by the United States Supreme Court in 1883.

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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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