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6221. Argentina's Beaver Infestation-In 1946, the Argentinian government imported 50 beavers in an attempt to start a fur trade. There are now 200,000 beavers there and they are threatening over 39 million acres of forest.

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6222. Wild Tree Brazil Nuts-The world's supply of Brazil nuts comes almost exclusively from wild trees. Brazil nut trees can't be farmed effectively because the complex symbiotic relationships they depends on for pollination, are too difficult to replicate.

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6223. Sanrio's Cute Characters-Sanrio is the company responsible for Hello Kitty. They started out selling silk in the 1960s, but when they started to sell sandals, the founder noticed that sandals with cuter designs sold better. This caused him to hire cartoonists to create cute characters for his company.

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6224. Daniel Inouye-Senator Daniel Inouye, who has served 50 years in the U.S. Senate, destroyed 3 German machine-gun nests in a single assault during the World War II Italian Campaign. The third nest was destroyed after Inouye grabbed a live grenade from his severed right hand and threw it through the firing slit with his left hand.

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6225. Netherland's Fake Communist Party-The Dutch secret service set up a fake pro-China communist party to gather information on the Chinese government. The party's leader, secret agent Pieter Boevé, developed warm relations with the Chinese government and even met Mao Zedong himself.

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6226. Uncut Gems-When his film Uncut Gems began to receive critical acclaim, Adam Sandler threatened the world with making

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6227. The Red Cell-The Red Cell is a special forces team led by the original commander of SEAL Team 6, Richard Marcinko. Their main objective is to test the security of government installations of the USA. They often sneak into military bases, steal classified information, kidnap high-ranking officers and admirals, and once even planted bombs near Air Force One.

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6228. The Empire State Building-The Empire State Building, built in 1930, was designed with the ability for an Airship/Zeppelin to dock at the very top of the skyscraper, overlooking all of NYC.

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6229. Pope's Sovereign Entities-The Pope is the head of two separate and distinct sovereign entities. The first one obviously is the Vatican City, a sovereign city state, and the second one is the Holy See, a sovereign juridical entity that acts as the Universal Catholic Central Government.

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6230. Hawaii's Flag-The reason Hawaii has the union jack on the top of its flag isn't because they were colonized by the UK, but rather because the Hawaiian king at the time liked the design of the British flag when they arrived.

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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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