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5901. Changing Marriage Trends Post-WWII-Men used to marry for the first time at an average age of 23 from the 1950s to the late 1970s. Today, the average age has risen to over 30.

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5902. French Physicist's Sark Invasion-In 1990, André Gardes, an unemployed French nuclear physicist, attempted a solo invasion of the island of Sark, claiming he was the rightful ruler and announcing his plan with posters. He was on the island specifically to assert this claim, motivated by a belief that Sark's feudal government was illegitimate. During the attempt, a local constable complimented his gun, and when Gardes removed the magazine to demonstrate it, the officer tackled and arrested him. He attempted another invasion in 1991.

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5903. Gillian Anderson's Iconic Role-The producers of

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5904. Lisbon Ripper's Reality Show Connection-Secret Story, a Portuguese reality show similar to

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5905. Supermarket Psychology Unveiled-Supermarkets strategically place fruits and vegetables at the entrance to make you feel you've made a healthy choice, allowing guilt-free junk food purchases later. Essentials like milk are located at the back, requiring you to pass by tempting snacks.

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5906. Largest Espionage Leak in US Navy-The largest espionage leak in US Navy history involved a spy ring led by John A. Walker, including his son, brother, and a friend. The Navy remained unaware of Walker's network, active from 1967 to 1985, until his ex-wife exposed it after their daughter persuaded her.

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5907. Yankees' Unusual Family Trade-In 1973, New York Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich famously exchanged wives, children, and even dogs in a highly unusual arrangement. The swap stemmed from both men falling in love with each other's wives during the 1972 season, leading them to announce the exchange in separate press conferences during spring training. While Peterson and Susanne Kekich married in 1974 and remained together until his death in 2023, Kekich's relationship with Marilyn Peterson ended shortly after the swap, and both pitchers' careers declined following the incident.

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5908. Red Cross Symbol Legal Battle-In 2008, Johnson & Johnson attempted to trademark and sue the International Committee of the Red Cross over its use of the Red Cross symbol. Since then, the ICRC has vigilantly protected its 160-year-old symbol, cracking down on unauthorized use in movies and games.

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5909. Miracle Flights Exposed-Some airline passengers fake mobility issues to receive better treatment and seating by arriving at boarding gates in wheelchairs. Remarkably, they often leave the plane unassisted, seemingly cured by the flight. These flights have been nicknamed miracle flights.

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5910. Lost Apollo 11 Footage-The most famous video of the Apollo 11 moon landing is not the original footage. Instead, it is a lower-quality recording of a monitor in Australia, as NASA accidentally erased the original tapes.

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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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