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5751. Tudor England's Harsh Beggar Laws-During the Tudor period in England, begging was tightly regulated. Only the sick or physically weak were allowed to beg—and only in designated areas. Healthy beggars faced brutal punishments, including public whippings or being branded with a “V” for vagrant.

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5752. Ving Rhames' High Pay for Seconds-Actor Ving Rhames earned $7.7 million for just 39 seconds of screen time in Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol (2011), making him the highest-paid actor for the least time on screen. He spent only two days on set.

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5753. Papal Conclave Food Restrictions-Whole chickens and covered pies are forbidden inside the papal conclave—the highly secretive meeting where cardinals elect a new pope.

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5754. Kayaker Trapped by Crocodile-In 2013, a New Zealand kayaker named Ryan Blair was stranded for two weeks on an Australian island, trapped by a massive crocodile. Every attempt to escape in his 8-foot kayak was thwarted by the croc, which was over twice the kayak’s size. He was finally rescued when a local man investigated a strange light coming from the island.

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5755. Ford's Whiz Kids Revolutionize Production-After returning from WWII, Henry Ford II took control of the Ford Motor Company and hired 10 young veterans dubbed “The Whiz Kids.” Their new management systems helped launch the 1949 Ford in just 19 months—racking up 100,000 orders on the first day.

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5756. Nintendo DS: Third Pillar Strategy-The Nintendo DS was never meant to replace the Game Boy. Instead, it was intended to be a “third pillar” between the Game Boy Advance and GameCube—giving Nintendo the option to fall back on the Game Boy line if the DS flopped.

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5757. Easter Date Calculation Disputes-For centuries, calculating the date of Easter was so complex that churches developed intricate algorithms to predict it years ahead. Disagreements over these methods eventually led to Eastern Orthodox churches celebrating Easter on different dates than Western churches.

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5758. Emperor Charles V's Treaty Gamble-In 1525, after defeating the French and capturing King Francis I, Emperor Charles V chose diplomacy over invasion and released the king in exchange for a treaty. Contemporaries like Machiavelli mocked him as “mad” and “foolish.” Francis later broke the treaty as soon as he was freed.

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5759. Texaco's Illegal Oil Sales-During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939), American oil company Texaco illegally sold oil to fascist leader Francisco Franco. Though it was fined $20,000 by the U.S. government, the company continued supplying oil until the war’s end.

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5760. Uday Hussein's Football Team Torture-Uday Hussein, son of Saddam Hussein, once punished Iraq’s national football team for losing 2–1 to Kazakhstan by caning their feet and brutally beating them.

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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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