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6371. Atomic Clocks Defy Universe's Age-Atomic clocks are so precise that the most accurate ones won't lose a second for over 30 billion years, which is longer than the age of the universe.

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6372. Tetris Eases Anxiety, Study Reveals-In 2018, researchers at UC Riverside lured 290 participants into a study under the false premise it was about attractiveness. Participants were told their peers would be rating their photo, and while

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6373. Arachnid Invasion at Maryland Plant-In 2009, a Maryland wastewater treatment plant became home to over 100 million orb-weaving spiders, marking the largest recorded aggregation in history. Dense sheets and volumes of webbing covered the entire facility, leading to its nickname, 'Back River Arachnotopia.'

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6374. Tragic Crash of Flight 8303-In 2020, Pakistan International Airlines Flight 8303 departed from Lahore for Karachi but attempted a dangerous belly landing with its landing gear retracted, severely damaging both engines. The pilots tried to go around for another landing, but the engines failed, causing the Airbus A320 to crash into the neighborhood near the airport. The accident killed 98 people, including one person on the ground.

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6375. Naked Man Found in Crawl Space-In 2024, a 27-year-old man named Isaac Betancourt was discovered living naked in the crawl space under a 93-year-old woman's home in El Sereno, Los Angeles-a house where he had apparently taken shelter for up to six months. The family, who initially thought the strange knocking noises were animals, finally called police, and after several failed attempts using dogs and rubber bullets, officers used tear gas to coax Betancourt out. He was arrested for trespassing.

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6376. ISS Retirement Set for 2030-The International Space Station (ISS) will be retired by 2030, and plans are in place to deorbit the entire station back to Earth.

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6377. Bee Gender Discovery by Torres-In the late 1500s, Spanish entomologist Luis Méndez de Torres was the first to realize that the

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6378. Tata Family's Zoroastrian Heritage-The Tata family, one of India's most prominent business dynasties and founders of the Tata Group, are Zoroastrians. This ancient Persian religion has fewer than 100,000 adherents worldwide.

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6379. Unmarked Graves at Central State-Central State Hospital in Milledgeville, Georgia, opened in 1842 as the Georgia State Lunatic, Idiot, and Epileptic Asylum, and it is surrounded by about 25,000 unmarked graves. Once the largest mental hospital in the world, Central State Hospital shut down during the deinstitutionalization movement in the late 20th century and ceased psychiatric admissions in 2010. The graves are believed to result from decades of overcrowding, high patient death rates, and minimal burial documentation.

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6380. Cancer Alley: Mississippi's Toxic Stretch-An 85-mile stretch of land along the Mississippi River is called

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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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