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5091. Lottery Winner Becomes Pool Champion-In 2010, a tiler named Neil Jones won £2.4 million in the lottery in England. The first purchase he made with this prize money was a pool table. He then retired and spent the covid lockdowns honing his skills at home. As a result, he rose through the ranks to become a regular county player. By 2023, he represented England at the European Pool Championships.

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5092. People Prefer Shocks Over Silence-A 2014 study at the University of Virginia found that when researchers asked participants to sit alone with their thoughts for 15 minutes, half of them preferred receiving an electric shock instead.

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5093. Kingdom of Heaven’s Lengthy Cut-The director's cut of Kingdom of Heaven was so long-lasting 3 hours and 14 minutes-that it included an overture at the beginning and a three-minute intermission in the middle. During the break, a still image of Balian sitting with his fellow Crusaders after battle played alongside a special musical score.

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5094. Mercenary’s Diary of Chaos-Peter Hagendorf, a German mercenary during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), kept a diary in which he casually described events such as the deaths of several of his children, being shot, and abducting women.

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5095. Better Liars Score Higher IQs-Two studies published in a scientific journal, involving over 1,000 participants, revealed that the ability to

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5096. Mars Bars Are 60% Sugar-Mars bars contain 60% sugar.

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5097. Panties Dropped at Alice Cooper Show-During Alice Cooper's 1972 School's Out concert at the Hollywood Bowl, a helicopter flew over the crowd and dropped women's panties on them.

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5098. Gogol’s Gruesome Starvation Death-Russian writer Nikolai Gogol slowly starved himself to death after refusing all food toward the end of his life. His doctors attempted several brutal treatments, including force-feeding him bouillon, pouring a bucket of hot water on his head, applying half a dozen leeches to his nose, and administering a soap suppository-none of which worked. He ultimately died at the age of forty-two.

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5099. Google's IPO Used Dutch Auction-In 2004, Google used a Dutch auction for its IPO. Investors placed bids at the highest price they were willing to pay, and everyone received shares at the lowest price that cleared all available stock-the market-clearing price.

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5100. Town Treasurer Stole $53 Million-Rita Crundwell, the treasurer for the rural town of Dixon, Illinois, embezzled over $53 million over 20 years, severely crippling the town's infrastructure due to budget shortages. In 2013, she was sentenced to 19 years and 7 months in federal prison, just shy of the 20-year maximum.

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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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