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6571. Anguilla's AI Domain Boom-The Caribbean Island of Anguilla has seen its national domain name,

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6572. Lamberto Maggiorani's Real-Life Struggle-In 1948, Italian factory worker Lamberto Maggiorani starred as the desperate father in the neorealist classic movie

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6573. Tragic Selfie with a Walrus-In 2016, a Chinese businessman named Jia Lijun, visiting a zoo in China, took a selfie with a walrus before the animal suddenly dragged him into the water and held him under. Onlookers and staff initially mistook the attack for playful behavior, delaying their response. When the trainer jumped in to save him, the walrus pulled him under as well, killing them both.

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6574. Groening's Quick Creation of Simpsons-When producers of The Tracey Ullman Show asked Matt Groening to adapt his comic Life in Hell for TV in 1985, he worried he'd lose ownership rights and damage the strip if the show flopped. Instead, he quickly sketched out a new dysfunctional family-the Simpsons-which became one of the most successful TV series of all time.

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6575. Pinkerton Agents Retrieve Magic Cards-In April 2023, a Magic: The Gathering YouTuber accidentally obtained boxes of unreleased March of the Machine: The Aftermath booster packs and opened them on camera. Publisher Wizards of the Coast responded by sending private security contractors from the Pinkerton Agency to his home to reclaim the cards. The agents confiscated 22 boxes after a tense confrontation that left the presenter's wife in tears.

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6576. High Casualty Rate for Flamethrower Units-During the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, U.S. flamethrower units suffered devastating losses, with casualty rates as high as 92%. The extreme danger of operating the weapon meant that very few troops remained trained to use it effectively.

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6577. Airlines Thrive on Loyalty Programs-Despite losing money on passenger flights, all four major U.S. airlines profit through loyalty programs and credit card deals.

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6578. Churchill's Polite Declaration of War-On December 8, 1941, the day after Pearl Harbor, Britain declared war on Japan. Because Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden was en route to Moscow, Winston Churchill personally drafted the formal declaration. Churchill later reflected on its wording, remarking,

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6579. Parents' Favorite Child Revealed-Recent studies suggest that about 70-74% of parents with multiple children secretly have a favorite child.

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6580. Sleep Deprivation Equals Drunkenness-Research shows that being awake for 20 hours straight impairs reaction time and judgment to the same degree as having a blood alcohol content of 0.08%, the legal limit for drunk driving in many countries. This means severe sleep deprivation can make someone just as unsafe behind the wheel as alcohol.

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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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