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5971. Friendship Wins Powerball Promise-In 1992, friends Thomas Cook and Joseph Feeney shook hands and promised to split the Powerball jackpot if one of them won. In 2020, Cook honored their 28-year-old agreement after winning $22 million. They both chose the cash option, taking home $5.7 million each.

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5972. Eisenhower's D-Day Contingency Speech-Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared an alternate speech in case the D-Day invasion failed. In it, he took full responsibility, calling the decision to attack

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5973. Mata Hari's Modesty on Stage-Alleged spy Mata Hari, a famous exotic dancer, never appeared fully nude onstage. Although she stripped off most of her clothes, her jeweled breastplate remained because she was self-conscious about her small breasts.

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5974. Indian Village Protects Nesting Bird-In 2020, the residents of the Pothakudi village in Southern India decided not to turn on their streetlights for 35 days because an Oriental Magpie Robin had made the switch box her home. The villagers chose not to disturb the bird, which laid three tiny eggs, two of which hatched.

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5975. 9th Century Chinese Servant Rebellion-In 9th-century China, a palace servant named Zhang Shao, prompted by a prophecy from fortune-teller Su Xuanming, stormed the Tang imperial palace in Chang'an, claiming he would dine on the emperor's food while seated on the throne. After finishing the emperor's meal, he lost direction and was killed on the spot.

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5976. Austrian Nun's Martyrdom in WWII-Maria Restituta Kafka, an Austrian nun, was beheaded by the Germans in 1943 during World War II. She refused to remove crucifixes from her hospital and spoke out against the ruling party's oppression. Despite being offered freedom if she left her convent, she chose to stay and was killed.

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5977. Nolan's Opposition to Superman's Kill-Producer Christopher Nolan initially opposed director Zack Snyder and writer David Goyer's idea for Superman to kill Zod in

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5978. Nero's Olympic Manipulation in AD 67-Roman Emperor Nero participated in the Olympics in AD 67 after bribing organizers to postpone the games for a year. He won every contest he entered. However, after his death a year later, officials removed his name from the list of winners.

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5979. Ghana's Right of Abode Offer-The nation of Ghana offers a Right of Abode, granting anyone from the African diaspora the right to move to and live in Ghana indefinitely.

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5980. Barkley Marathon's Unique Application-The Barkley Marathon, a 100-mile ultramarathon in Tennessee with a 60-hour time limit, requires applicants to send an essay explaining why they deserve to participate, along with a $1.60 entrance fee.

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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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