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5231. Michael Jackson Buys Beatles Catalog-In 1985, Michael Jackson purchased the Lennon-McCartney song catalog for $47.5 million and later licensed the songs for various commercials, which saddened Paul McCartney. Reportedly frustrated by McCartney's reaction, Jackson stated,

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5232. Schwarzenegger’s Role in Hummer Creation-Arnold Schwarzenegger became the first civilian in the United States to purchase a Humvee military vehicle. Arnold Schwarzenegger loved the Humvee so much that he persuaded the manufacturer to develop a street-legal civilian version, which became the Hummer H1 in 1992.

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5233. UAE Loans & Marriage Crisis-According to a BBC report, men in the UAE used 80% of their personal loans to pay for wedding expenses. As a result, many Emirati men chose to marry

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5234. Beethoven’s Deafness & Conversation Notebooks-After Ludwig van Beethoven became functionally deaf, his associates used notebooks to communicate with him. Historians have since reconstructed entire conversations based on the entries they left behind.

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5235. Toy Guns, Tunnels, and $20M Heist-In 2006, thieves in Buenos Aires tunneled beneath a bank and broke into its vault. After a seven-hour standoff with 23 hostages, authorities entered the building only to find $20 million missing, a row of toy guns, and a note that read,

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5236. Last Execution in Tower of London-The last person executed in the Tower of London was Josef Jakobs in 1941. A German spy, he parachuted into England but was quickly captured. Upon his arrest, authorities discovered him in possession of £500, forged documents, and a German sausage.

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5237. Jim Carrey’s Sonic Movie Return-In 2022, Jim Carrey considered retiring from acting, prompting producers to confirm they would not recast Robotnik in the Sonic movies if he left. However, they hoped to entice him with a great script. Carrey joked that they should write it in gold. In 2024, he confirmed his return for Sonic 3, and director Jeff Fowler humorously claimed the 24-karat ink script cost $100,000.

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5238. Cardinal Became Portuguese King-Henry, a 16th-century Cardinal and Grand Inquisitor of the Catholic Church, unexpectedly inherited the Portuguese throne at age 65. He petitioned the Pope to release him from his vows so he could marry, hoping to produce an heir, but the Pope denied his request.

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5239. Blind People Struggle Recognizing Objects-Blind individuals who regain sight continue to struggle for years to recognize objects because vision is a learned skill rather than an automatic ability. They must train their brains to interpret visual information.

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5240. Thomas Jefferson’s Stuffed Moose Shipment-Thomas Jefferson once spent the equivalent of $1,400 in today's dollars just to ship a stuffed moose to France in an effort to prove that America had large animals.

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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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