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6551. Norland College: Elite Nanny Training-Norland College, the world's oldest and most prestigious nanny school located in England, trains nannies in self-defense and evasive driving alongside traditional childcare skills. Often described as

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6552. Leo Gao's $10 Million Escape-In 2009, a New Zealander named Leo Gao discovered that his bank had deposited $10 million into his account by mistake. He and his girlfriend fled the country, igniting an international manhunt that spanned two years until his capture in Hong Kong. Gao was later sentenced but paroled after 16 months, even though the court believed he still controlled the $3.7 million that was never recovered.

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6553. Cybersecurity Minister Without Computer Skills-In 2018, Japanese Minister Yoshitaka Sakurada admitted that he had never used a computer in his life, despite being in charge of the country's cybersecurity at the time.

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6554. Freddie Mercury's Unique Vocal Gift-Freddie Mercury was born with four extra teeth, resulting in a prominent overbite. Although self-conscious about his teeth, he never had them fixed, believing the extra space contributed to his vocal ability. He feared that altering his teeth might change his voice.

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6555. Saddam's Cousins' Fatal Return-In 1995, Iraqi generals Hussein Kamel al-Majid and his brother Saddam Kamel-both cousins of Saddam Hussein and married to his daughters-defected to Jordan and began cooperating with Western intelligence. The following year, Saddam lured them back to Iraq with promises of forgiveness. Within three days of their return in 1996, both brothers were killed in an armed standoff with members of their own clan.

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6556. Aerosmith's Forgotten Hit-Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Joe Perry were listening to the radio in 1984 when Tyler heard a song he liked. He suggested they cover it, only for Perry to inform him, 'That's us, f*ckhead.' Tyler had forgotten writing or performing their 1975 song 'You See Me Crying.

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6557. Ronnie James Dio's Mic Mishap-When Ronnie James Dio came to record his part for Tenacious D's 2006 track

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6558. Zero Dark Thirty's Unauthorized Clip-The 2012 movie Zero Dark Thirty used an extensive clip of a phone call by Betty Ong, a flight attendant on one of the 9/11 hijacked planes, without obtaining her family's consent.

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6559. 1792 Sugar Boycott Against Slavery-In 1792, 400,000 British citizens gave up sugar to boycott slavery, despite the UK population being only 6 million at the time.

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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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