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5137. Yes Band-In 1984, the band 'Yes' made 18 different versions of the music video for their song

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5138. Green Flash-The green flash is an optical phenomenon that occurs during sunset or sunrise when conditions are favorable. The color green is visible only for a few seconds and it occurs when two optical phenomena, a mirage and the dispersion of sunlight, combine.

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5139. Diving Deep-Diving too deep in water increases the nitrogen concentration in your blood and will make you feel drunk and confused. Adding Helium to a SCUBA tank will reduce this because, unlike nitrogen, helium does not have a narcotic effect.

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5140. Foxes Sound-Foxes close to each other make a sound similar to chickens clucking.

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5141. Masers-Masers (laser-like directed energy weapons using microwave radiation instead of visible light) predate lasers by several years, and in fact, some of the earliest lasers were even referred to as

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5142. Juan José Cabezudo-Juan José Cabezudo was a queer Afro-Peruvian chef and a street-food vendor who lived in 19th-century Lima. Known for his tamales, he was one of the most famous and well-documented cooks of post-independence Peru, being responsible for Bolivar's farewell dinner before he left the country.

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5143. Great Kanto Earthquake-During the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, an entire train station, with its buildings, trains, and platforms, was swept into the ocean by a mudslide. Around 112 people who were in the station died that day including 200 more living in the vicinity.

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5144. Ubre Blanca-Fidel Castro's dairy cow, Ubre Blanca was specially bred to break the American record in milk production. It produced 109.5 liters (241 pounds) of milk in a single day. After its death, Ubre Blanca was stuffed by a taxidermist and put on display at the National Cattle Health Center.

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5145. Preparedness Paradox-Preparing for an emergency (an epidemic, natural disaster, etc.) can sometimes prevent people from being harmed by it and when people don’t see the negative consequences from the emergency, they wrongly conclude that the emergency wasn't that bad to start with. This is known as the

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5146. Doorbot to Ring-A 36-yr-old man named Jamie Siminoff founded a company named Doorbot in 2013 and went on Shark Tank to raise $700,000. Jamie refused the shark offer from Kevin, rebranded the company as Ring, brought on Shaquille O'Neal as investor and spokesperson, and in 2018 sold Ring to Amazon for $1.2-1.8 billion.

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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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