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5251. Saddam Hussein’s 100% Vote Win-In 2002, Saddam Hussein won a referendum on his presidency with 100% of the vote, narrowly surpassing the previous referendum, in which he won 99.9%.

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5252. Subway Co-Founder Donates $5B Stake-Fifty percent of Subway, the sandwich company, is owned by a charity. Cofounder Peter Buck donated his $5 billion share of the company before he died, placing it under the Buck Foundation, which supports causes like the Internet Archive and land conservation.

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5253. Caesar’s Brutal Battle of Alesia-In the 52 B.C. Battle of Alesia, Julius Caesar's troops constructed 25 miles of defensive fortifications in just a few weeks, including spiked trenches, hidden pits, water-filled moats, wooden walls, iron-tipped stakes, and hundreds of watchtowers. The Gauls suffered a loss of 290,000 troops, while Caesar's forces lost only 12,800 men.

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5254. Portuguese Woman Disguised as Soldier-A Portuguese woman named Maria Úrsula in the early 18th century disguised herself as a man to join the army, fought in India, and rose to the rank of fortress captain. Her identity was only discovered when she requested the king's permission to marry a fellow soldier.

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5255. Space Invaders’ $14 Billion Success-By 1982, the Space Invaders arcade game had become such a massive success that it had grossed $14 billion (adjusted for inflation), making it the highest-grossing entertainment product of all time at that point.

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5256. Max Planck Ignored Physics Warning-Despite being advised by his professor not to pursue physics because

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5257. Gates of Arctic’s Extreme Remoteness-Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska is the northernmost national park in the U.S. It's three times the size of Yellowstone but receives fewer visitors in an entire year than Yellowstone gets in a single day.

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5258. Lottery Programmer’s $24M Scam-The biggest lottery scam in U.S. history was orchestrated by Eddie Tipton, head of IT security for the Multi-State Lottery Association. Feeling underappreciated and overworked, he wrote code that altered the odds from 5 million to 1 down to 200 to 1. Over the years, he won drawings in five states totaling $24 million before his arrest.

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5259. Eisenhower’s Stress Before D-Day-In the weeks leading up to D-Day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was under such extreme stress that he was smoking six packs of cigarettes, drinking 24 cups of coffee, and averaging just two hours of sleep per night.

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5260. Britain’s Near-Bloodless Invasion of Iceland-During World War II, Britain invaded Iceland to prevent the Nazis from using it as a U-boat base. The operation was nearly bloodless, with the only casualty being a Royal Marine who committed suicide en route.

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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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