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5061. 330 Days Without Washing Jeans-Starting in September 2009, a student wore the same pair of jeans 330 times over 15 months without washing them for an experiment. After finally washing them, he wore them for another 13 days. A textile scientist tested the jeans for bacteria both before and after washing. The bacterial count showed surprisingly little difference.

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5062. Poet Niemöller’s Nazi Ties-Martin Niemöller, the author of the poem

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5063. Linux Dominates Supercomputers-Since November 2017, Linux-based operating systems have been powering all 500 of the world's fastest supercomputers.

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5064. Becky Barbie’s Dreamhouse Issue-In 1997, Mattel released Share a Smile Becky, a disabled Barbie doll. However, they discontinued it after realizing that Becky's wheelchair couldn't fit through the front door of the Barbie Dreamhouse.

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5065. Günther Kaufmann's False Confession-In 2002, German actor Günther Kaufmann confessed to accidentally suffocating his accountant by falling on him with his 260-pound body. However, in 2005, investigators discovered Kaufmann was innocent. He had falsely confessed to protect his dying wife, who had actually committed the murder.

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5066. Late Nights Harm Mental Health-A 2024 Stanford study involving 75,000 adults compared participants' preferred sleep schedules (chronotypes) with their actual sleep habits. Regardless of their natural preference, everyone benefited from going to bed earlier. Researchers suggested that staying up late-especially past 1 a.m.-negatively affects mental health.

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5067. Scientist Who Fought Lead Poisoning-Clair Patterson, the U.S. scientist who contributed to the atomic bomb's development, also determined Earth's age. During his experiments, he discovered widespread lead contamination, which led him to pioneer the creation of the ultra-clean room. While successfully dating the planet, he also uncovered the devastating extent of lead pollution from leaded gasoline. Realizing its harmful effects on humanity, he launched a campaign against leaded gasoline, taking on a billion-dollar industry and warning the world that it was poisoning the population.

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5068. Gut Bacteria and Schizophrenia-In a 2024 scientific paper, researchers studying schizophrenia discovered a surprising link between gut microbiomes and the disorder. When they transferred the gut microbiome of a schizophrenic human to mice, the mice began exhibiting schizophrenia-like behaviors.

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5069. Breaking Bad Inspired Blue Meth-Following the success of Breaking Bad, many real-life meth manufacturers started dyeing their product blue.

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5070. Ferrari Blacklisted Journalist-Ferrari temporarily blacklisted motoring journalist Chris Harris from reviewing or purchasing their cars after he published an article accusing the company of specially tuning press cars to perform significantly better in magazine reviews than the production models sold to customers.

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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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