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6291. Buffett's Billion-Dollar Triumph-Warren Buffett's investment prowess led Berkshire Hathaway to generate a 19.8% annualized return from 1965 to 2023, nearly doubling the 10.2% return of the S&P 500 over that time. In 2024, Berkshire Hathaway became the first non-technology company to top a $1 trillion market capitalization.

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6292. Dorothy Molter's Remote Retreat-Dorothy Molter lived alone in the Northern Minnesota wilderness from 1948 until her death in 1986. Despite being called

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6293. Male Fashion's Great Renunciation-Beginning in the late 18th century, a cultural shift known as the Great Male Renunciation caused men in the Western world to abandon the lavish, colorful, and ornate fashions once common in aristocratic circles. Sparked by Enlightenment ideals valuing reason and equality, male clothing became more sober and utilitarian, emphasizing dark colors and simplified styles that persist in modern menswear.

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6294. Gander: Canine War Hero-During the Battle of Hong Kong in 1941, part of the early Pacific campaign of World War II, Sergeant Gander, a Newfoundland dog serving with Canadian troops, heroically grabbed a live grenade and ran toward the enemy, sacrificing himself to save several wounded soldiers. For his bravery, he was posthumously awarded the Dickin Medal, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross.

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6295. GPS Satellites' Silent Broadcast-GPS satellites never interact directly with GPS devices. Instead, 31 U.S. satellites continuously broadcast their positions, allowing GPS devices to triangulate their location using the positions of three

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6296. Pardo's Heroic Aerial Push-During the Vietnam War, pilot Bob Pardo used his F-4 Phantom II aircraft to physically push his wingman's heavily damaged Phantom through the air to friendly airspace. He did this even when his own jet's engine caught fire, to avoid them having to bail out over North Vietnamese territory.

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6297. Beatrice Muller's Ocean Life-Beatrice Muller, a New Jersey widow, was once a permanent resident of the Cunard ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. After her husband retired, the couple went on the ship's world cruise every year until he died on board in 1999. From 2000, she lived permanently on the ship until it was retired in 2008.

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6298. Alaska's Unexpected Acquisition-The USA gained the opportunity to purchase Alaska after Russia's devastating loss in the Crimean War (1853-1856), where it fought against an alliance of the Ottoman Empire, Britain, France, and Sardinia over influence in the declining Ottoman territories. Burdened by heavy casualties and economic strain, and fearing it couldn't defend its distant Alaskan territory from British forces in nearby Canada, Russia chose to sell Alaska to the U.S. in 1867.

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6299. Sweden's Town Relocation Feat-Sweden recently moved the entire mining town of Kiruna a few miles east because the local iron mine started encroaching under the town. They meticulously moved all historic buildings to their new locations.

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6300. Oregon Engineer Wins Traffic Case-In 2013, Swedish-born engineer Mats Järlström began researching Oregon's red-light camera system after his wife received a ticket, concluding that the yellow-light intervals were too short to account for safe turning. After presenting his findings, he was fined $500 for

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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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