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6141. Kidney Stones and Roller Coasters-Studies reveal that patients with kidney stones often pass them while riding the Big Thunder Mountain Railroad, a roller coaster located at Disney's Magic Kingdom in Florida. Research found a nearly 64% success rate in stone passage, especially for stones under 5 mm, likely due to the ride's vibrations and sharp turns mimicking the physical jostling needed to dislodge them.

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6142. 2020 Oregon Stolen Car Crash-In 2020, an Oregon man driving a stolen car crashed into a woman who was also driving a stolen car. Both were arrested at the scene, and police later confirmed the coincidence was purely accidental, with no prior connection between the two suspects.

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6143. OCD Study Reveals Mortality Risks-A study from 1973 to 2020 followed thousands of people and found that those with obsessive-compulsive disorder died, on average, nine years earlier than those without it (69 vs. 78 years). People with OCD were 230% more likely to die from unnatural causes and nearly five times more likely to die by suicide.

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6144. United Express Passenger Removal 2017-In the 2017 United Express passenger removal incident, four paying customers were selected to be involuntarily deplaned to make room for airline crew, sparking outrage when one passenger, Dr. David Dao, was violently dragged off the plane and injured. The incident, caught on video, led to widespread criticism and prompted new USDOT rules protecting passengers from removal after check-in. Dr. Dao later reached an undisclosed settlement with United Airlines, though no criminal charges were filed.

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6145. Great White Shark's Brief Captivity-In 2016, the first adult great white shark to be exhibited by an aquarium-an 11.5-foot male-died after just three days in captivity at the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. The shark refused to eat and became visibly weak, eventually sinking to the bottom of the tank, with experts speculating that the stress of captivity and unsuitability of enclosed environments likely led to its death.

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6146. Kosher Meat and Sciatic Nerve-The process of making meat kosher specifically involves removing the sciatic nerve, based on the belief that Jacob's sciatic nerve was injured by an angel.

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6147. Brutal Execution: Blowing From a Gun-Blowing from a gun was a brutal execution method where victims were tied to a cannon's muzzle and fired upon, denying them burial rites and serving as both a physical and spiritual punishment.

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6148. 1965 Jordan-Saudi Arabia Land Swap-In 1965, Jordan and Saudi Arabia peacefully swapped land, allowing Jordan to gain 19 kilometers of coastline, while Saudi Arabia acquired more desert.

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6149. Headless Humans in Ancient Texts-Ancient Greek and Roman historians wrote about a species of headless humans with faces on their chests, who supposedly inhabited Libya and Ethiopia.

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6150. Secret Hideaways for U.S. Senators-All U.S. senators and senior House members receive a private one-room hideaway in the Senate, which was unlisted in directories and marked only by room numbers. In 1945, Harry Truman learned of FDR's death while having cocktails in Sam Rayburn's hideaway.

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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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