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6541. Heroic Brother Saves Sister-In 2023, a 13-year-old Michigan teenager named Owen Burns saved his 8-year-old sister from a would-be kidnapper by firing a slingshot and striking the 17-year-old assailant in the head and chest. The attacker fled but was arrested shortly afterward at a nearby gas station and had injuries consistent with the slingshot blasts.

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6542. 19th-Century Work-Life Balance Pioneer-In the early 19th century, Robert Owen, a wealthy Welsh textile mill owner, pioneered the idea of

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6543. Andersen's Odd Request at Dickens' Home-In 1857, Danish author Hans Christian Andersen, famous for fairy tales like The Little Mermaid and The Ugly Duckling, stayed as a guest at Charles Dickens' home in England. During his visit, Andersen asked that one of Dickens' sons shave him daily, explaining that this was a Danish custom when hosting male guests. Dickens, unsettled by the request, instead arranged for Andersen to have a standing appointment at a nearby barbershop.

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6544. First Autism Diagnosis: Donald Triplett-In 1943, psychiatrist Leo Kanner formally diagnosed American banker Donald Gray Triplett, from Mississippi, with autism, referring to him as

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6545. Roddenberry's Stand Against Racism-In the late 1950s, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry was hired to write for the NBC series Riverboat, set in 1860s Mississippi. When he learned that the producers intended to exclude Black characters entirely, he strongly objected. His repeated arguments over representation cost him the job.

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6546. Statistician Outsmarts Lottery Game-A Canadian geological statistician named Mohan Srivastava discovered a flaw in Ontario's Tic-Tac-Toe scratch-off lottery that let him predict winners with about 90% accuracy. However, he found it to be less profitable and enjoyable than his consulting job as a statistician; he instead informed the gaming commission, which pulled the game the next day.

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6547. NHS Email Storm Disrupts Operations-In 2016, someone at the National Health Service in England sent a test email to 840,000 colleagues, leading to one of the largest reply-all storms. The incident resulted in 168 million emails and disrupted the health system for half a day.

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6548. Matthew Perry's Sobriety Journey-In 2022, Matthew Perry estimated that he had attended approximately 6,000 Alcoholics Anonymous meetings.

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6549. 1857 Book Challenges Slavery Economics-In 1857, a book named The Impending Crisis of the South analyzed census data to show that free states had better economic growth than slave states. It argued that abolishing slavery would improve economic prospects for poor Southern whites. Southern states reacted by executing those found with the book.

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6550. McDonald's Family Restaurant Legal Battle-In 1996, McDonald's attempted to sue the owner of a family-owned restaurant in Fairbury, Illinois, 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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