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5741. Illusory Truth Effect Explained-The more often you hear a lie, the more likely you are to believe it—a phenomenon known as the illusory truth effect. Psychologists first documented it in 1977. Essentially, when something is repeated enough, your brain starts thinking, “Yeah, that sounds right.”

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5742. Jesse Owens' Surprise Cash Gift-During a New York City parade celebrating Jesse Owens’ four gold medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics, an anonymous fan handed him a paper bag filled with $10,000 in cash.

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5743. She-Hulk Among Priciest TV Shows-She-Hulk: Attorney at Law ranks as the third most expensive television show ever produced (as of April 2025).

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5744. General James Wilkinson: Spanish Spy-General James Wilkinson, a high-ranking U.S. officer during both the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, was later exposed as a Spanish spy. Historians uncovered the evidence in Spain years after his death—leading Theodore Roosevelt to declare, “In all our history, there is no more despicable character.”

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5745. Augustus Gloop Actor's Surprise Fame-Michael Böllner, the German actor who played Augustus Gloop in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory, later became a tax accountant. He had no idea how beloved the film was in America until fans invited him to a convention decades later.

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5746. Wendy Williams Under Guardianship-Since May 2022, Wendy Williams has lived under a legal guardianship that controls both her finances and healthcare (as of April 2025). A court appointed the guardian after Wells Fargo froze her accounts, following her financial advisor’s claim that she was of “unsound mind.”

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5747. Shrimp Industry's Eye Removal Practice-To boost reproduction, the shrimp industry routinely removes the eyes of female shrimp—a controversial practice known as “eyestalk ablation.”

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5748. Pope's Brief Papacy Bans Smoking-Pope Urban VII’s only major act during his 13-day papacy was issuing the world’s first public smoking ban. He declared that anyone who used tobacco in or around churches—whether by chewing, smoking, or sniffing—would face excommunication.

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5749. Serbian Royals' Brutal Assassination-In 1903, Serbian King Alexander and Queen Draga Mašin were brutally assassinated in their bedroom. The deeply unpopular king had repeatedly suspended the constitution, and both royals were widely despised. After the murders, soldiers threw their bodies from a balcony into a pile of manure.

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5750. Alva Vanderbilt's Empowering Divorce-In 1895, Alva Vanderbilt shocked American high society by divorcing William K. Vanderbilt over alleged infidelity. She walked away with millions and several estates and later used her wealth to support women’s suffrage, racial uplift, and social and prison reform.

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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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