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5871. Gravity Hinders Space Burping-Astronauts cannot burp in space because the absence of gravity prevents food and gases from separating in the stomach, unlike on Earth.

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5872. Caffeine Overdose Tragedy in 2017-In 2017, 16-year-old Davis Allen Cripe from South Carolina tragically died after consuming a McDonald's latte, a large Mountain Dew, and an energy drink within a two-hour period. This rapid intake of approximately 470mg of caffeine led to a caffeine-induced cardiac event, causing a probable arrhythmia. Despite having no known pre-existing heart conditions, the combination and speed of consumption proved fatal.

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5873. Bangkok Airport's Tiger Cub Smuggling-In 2010, authorities at a Bangkok airport caught a woman attempting to smuggle a drugged tiger cub in her suitcase. She had camouflaged it among plush tigers, but an X-ray scanner revealed a live animal with bones and organs.

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5874. Leopard Seal Fatality in Antarctica-In 2003, a leopard seal caused the first recorded human fatality when it killed biologist Kirsty Brown in Antarctica. While snorkeling for research, the seal drowned her by holding her underwater for about six minutes at depths reaching 230 feet (70 meters).

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5875. Rare Genetic Case Discovered in 1995-In 1995, doctors discovered a boy whose blood contained no trace of his father's DNA due to partial human parthenogenesis. This rare condition occurred when the mother's egg cell divided just before fertilization, resulting in genetically fatherless blood.

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5876. Woman Trapped in Elevator for Days-In 1988, 76-year-old Kively Papajohn from New York City was trapped in her apartment building's elevator for six days. Living alone, she became stuck while returning from grocery shopping. With no other residents in the building, her absence went unnoticed until her niece eventually checked on her. During the ordeal, she rationed her groceries to survive. The elevator was so small she couldn't lie down to sleep. Her experience set a world record for the longest time trapped in an elevator.

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5877. Tony Todd's Improvised Farewell-Tony Todd, who played the mortician in the Final Destination movies, knew he had only months to live due to cancer when he took on the role. The directors allowed him to improvise his final lines, where he said,

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5879. Lobsters Defy Aging Process-Lobsters do not die of old age. They continue to grow and reproduce until something else kills them.

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5880. Tragic Hayride Incident-In 1990, 17-year-old Brian Jewell, a teenager working at a haunted hayride in Lakewood, New Jersey, felt awkward scaring people by jumping out of the woods. Instead, he replaced a skeleton hanging by a noose in a tree as part of the act. Tragically, when he struggled to remove the rope from his neck, onlookers thought it was part of the performance and watched him die. His feet were touching the ground, and the death was later ruled accidental.

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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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