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6821. The Truth About Python's Kill Grip-Contrary to popular belief, pythons and anacondas don't kill by suffocating their prey. Their constriction acts far more quickly-within seconds, the pressure stops blood flow to the brain, causing near-instant unconsciousness. Cardiac arrest follows moments later, making their method both efficient and lethal.

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6822. America's Forgotten

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6823. Antarctica's Frozen Firefighters-Even the coldest continent on Earth has its own full-time fire department. Antarctica maintains around 46 professional firefighters, primarily stationed at McMurdo Station, to protect research bases and aircraft from the unique dangers of polar fires.

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6824. The Fish That Causes Orange Oil-Escolar, a deep-sea fish often mislabeled as

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6825. The Tiny Truth About Velociraptors-Despite their ferocious portrayal in movies like Jurassic Park, real Velociraptors were much smaller, about the size of a turkey. They stood roughly two feet tall and weighed less than 20 kilograms, with feathers covering much of their bodies. Hollywood's version was actually based on the larger Deinonychus, giving the tiny predator an outsized pop-culture reputation.

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6826. Love Letters Turned Into Art-Emma Hauck, a German woman institutionalized in the early 1900s, spent her final years writing desperate letters to her husband. Many consisted only of the words

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6827. A Mass Suicide for Justice-In 1941, 73-year-old Nepali activist Yogmaya Neupane led 67 of her followers, including women and children, to a mass suicide to protest the Nepali regime's brutal dictatorship. They leapt together into the Arun River after their demands for justice were ignored. None of their bodies were ever recovered.

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6828. The 2017 Bubonic Plague Outbreak-In October 2017, Madagascar suffered the deadliest modern outbreak of bubonic plague, a.k.a. Black Death. More than 170 people died, and thousands more were infected as the bubonic and pneumonic forms of the plague spread rapidly through cities and towns. Swift international response and quarantine measures eventually contained the epidemic, but it marked a chilling reminder that the medieval disease still survives.

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6829. The Woman Hidden for 42 Years-A Croatian nurse named Hedviga Golik died alone in her Zagreb apartment in 1966 and remained undiscovered for 42 years. Only during building renovations in 2008 did they discover her perfectly preserved home. The building's architect quietly covered her utility bills for decades, keeping her death hidden in plain sight, and neighbors never reported her missing.

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6830. Why Shoe Sizes Use Barleycorns-The traditional unit for measuring shoe size is the barleycorn, equal to one-third of an inch. In this system, your shoe size equals three times your foot length in inches, minus twenty-three. The quirky standard dates back to medieval England and remains the basis of modern British and U.S. shoe sizing today.

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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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