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5951. Quebec 1995 Secession Vote Result-In 1995, a Quebec referendum on independence from Canada saw a 94% turnout, with 50.58% voting to remain and 49.42% voting for independence.

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5952. Ecclestone Became Dad at 89-Former Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone became the sixth-oldest father in recorded history when he conceived a child at age 89 in 2020.

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5953. Capri Pants Sparked TV Trend-Mary Tyler Moore insisted on wearing capri pants on The Dick Van Dyke Show, despite network executives fearing they were too revealing. They worried the pants were “cupping under” and accentuating her rear. However, audiences loved the look, and the show became a massive hit.

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5954. Actress Used FBI for Info-In the 2000s, actress Linda Fiorentino (Men in Black, Dogma) began dating FBI agent Mark Rosini. Claiming she was researching a role, she persuaded him to access confidential files from a felony case involving a Hollywood fixer. She gave the files to the fixer’s lawyers in an attempt to help him.

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5955. College Students Failed Simple Test-The water-level task, which was originally designed to test cognitive development in children, surprisingly showed that many college students also failed to solve it correctly.

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5956. Mercy Led to Execution Anyway-Dirk Willems, a 16th-century Dutch Anabaptist, escaped prison but turned back to save a guard who had fallen through ice while chasing him. His act of mercy led to his recapture and eventual execution.

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5957. Mormon 'King' Assassinated, Killers Fined-James Strang, leader of a Mormon splinter group, crowned himself “king” of his church on Beaver Island, Michigan, and ruled for six years. His “reign” was hated so much by the locals that he was assassinated in 1856. His killers were jailed in an unlocked cell and fined only $1.25.

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5958. Trigeminal Neuralgia Nicknamed Suicide Disease-Trigeminal neuralgia, often called the “suicide disease,” causes sudden, stabbing facial pain so severe it's considered one of the most excruciating conditions known. It has no known cure.

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5959. Britain Accidentally Funded Own Invasion-Napoleon planned to invade the United Kingdom, financing the effort through the sale of the Louisiana Territory to the United States. Ironically, the U.S. paid for the purchase with a loan from a British bank—meaning Britain unwittingly helped fund its own potential invasion.

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5960. Znoneofthe, Above Backfired Hilariously-In 2016, an Ontario man named Sheldon Bergson legally changed his name to “Znoneofthe, Above” to create a “None of the Above” option on ballots for a local election. He added a silent “Z” to appear last alphabetically. However, during the election, the ballots listed candidates by their first names, which resulted in him being displayed as

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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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