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6061. Ozempic Boosts Denmark's Economy-The soaring demand for Ozempic and its sister weight-loss drug Wegovy has boosted Denmark's GDP by around 1.7-2 percentage points in 2022-2023. This surge has been driven by Novo Nordisk, the Copenhagen-based pharmaceutical giant owned by Novo Holdings A/S, whose profits and share price climbed nearly 40-45%, lifting its market capitalization above the size of Denmark's entire economy and funneling billions into jobs, infrastructure, tax revenue, and domestic investments.

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6062. Galapagos Tortoises Hunt Finches-Galapagos tortoises sometimes kill the finches that groom them for parasites by retracting their limbs, flattening themselves, and deliberately falling on the birds to consume them for protein.

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6063. Transmissible Diseases: 100% Fatal-All diseases classified as transmissible spongiform encephalopathy, including Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and fatal insomnia, have a 100% mortality rate, with no known survivors.

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6064. Cake Plays Bar Mitzvah 1999-In 1999, 11-year-old Mitchell Schop wrote to his favorite band, Cake, requesting they play at his bar mitzvah. After he sang his favorite song to them over the phone, Cake agreed, making his party the first stop on their 1999 world tour.

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6065. Egyptian Calendar's Party Days-The ancient Egyptian calendar consisted of 12 months with 30 days each, and they added five days of festivities at the year's end to complete a 365-day year. During these

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6066. Gunther IV: Richest Dog Worldwide-With a net worth of $500 million, Gunther IV, a German Shepherd, is the world's richest dog, having inherited his fortune from his father, Gunther III. He inherited the money-which originated from a German countess, Karlotta Liebenstein, in a trust managed by Italian heir Maurizio Mian-and it's used to fund his lavish lifestyle (luxury homes, private jets, staff) and even businesses like a pop group and a football club.

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6067. Margot Kidder's Manic Episode-Margot Kidder, known for playing Lois Lane in the original Superman films, experienced a manic breakdown and disappeared for four days after her laptop crashed while writing her autobiography and losing all her work.

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6068. Paddington Bear's Surprising Origin-In the early 1970s, Shirley Clarkson, Jeremy Clarkson's mother, designed and created the first Paddington Bear toy, which later became a licensed product that helped fund Jeremy's education and launch his TV career.

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6069. Gut Microbiome Affects Social Anxiety-Research shows that people with social anxiety disorders have a different gut microbiome, and when it is transplanted into mice, it causes the mice to exhibit increased social fear.

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6070. Slap Fighting Concussion Study-In September 2024, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine analyzed 333 slaps across 78 professional slap-fighting bouts and discovered that over 50% of slap sequences resulted in fighters exhibiting visible signs of concussion, while nearly 80% of participants showed at least one concussion sign during matches.

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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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