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5221. Alan Turing’s Olympic-Level Running-Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, was an elite runner who nearly qualified for the Olympic marathon. He completed the race in 2 hours and 46 minutes, averaging an impressive 6 minutes and 20 seconds per mile.

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5222. Millionaire Game Show Fraud Scandal-In 2001, Army Major Charles Ingram cheated his way to winning £1,000,000 on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? by relying on a fellow contestant to cough whenever he read the correct answer. For one question, the coughing even came from Ingram's wife. All three were later convicted of fraud.

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5223. Flight Attendant Buys Hijack Fuel-During the 1985 hijacking of TWA Flight 847 from Cairo to San Diego, the jet was forced to land in Algeria for refueling. When Algerian authorities demanded payment upfront, the lead flight attendant had to purchase 6,000 gallons of jet fuel using her personal credit card.

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5224. Marlon Brando’s Estate Takeover-Just weeks before Marlon Brando's death, three newcomers took control of his estate. They reclaimed assets promised to friends, sold his island, commercialized his image, and shut down fan-run pages. Under their management, Brando's eldest son couldn't even afford the funeral.

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5225. Kathleen Caronna-In 1997, Kathleen Caronna fell into a month-long coma after a Thanksgiving Day parade float knocked a lamppost onto her head. She later used the settlement money to buy a lovely apartment, but nine years later, Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle crashed his plane into her high-rise, and the engine landed in her bedroom.

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5226. Can-Can Dance Once Scandalous-The Can-Can was once considered scandalous, prompting authorities to attempt to suppress it and arrest performers. The dance featured high kicks, and at the time, women's underwear had an open crotch.

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5227. Trust Fund Son Kills Father-Thomas Gilbert Jr., a 30-year-old Princeton graduate who was unemployed, killed his wealthy father in 2015 after his weekly allowance dropped from $1,000 to $300. He was later sentenced to 30 years in prison.

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5228. Over Half of Adults Can’t Swim-More than 55% of the world's population aged 15 and older cannot swim.

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5229. Toy Traffic Cone in Lung-After doctors removed a mass from a 47-year-old man's lung, believing it to be a malignant tumor, they discovered it was actually a Playmobil toy traffic cone. He had swallowed it on his 7th birthday in 1974, but his airway had adapted, which likely prevented symptoms until he was 40.

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5230. Jack Daniel’s Illegal in Hometown-In Lynchburg, Tennessee, home to the Jack Daniel's distillery, it is illegal to buy Jack Daniel's whiskey. The county, being

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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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