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6861. Hillary Step Vanishes on Everest-Climbers long considered the Hillary Step, a near-vertical rock face just below Mount Everest's summit, the final major obstacle. In 2017, mountaineers confirmed it had collapsed, likely due to the 2015 Nepal earthquake. The once-steep wall is now a 45-degree snow slope, making the final ascent easier but less iconic.

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6862. Married Couples Reconcile Statistics-Studies show that between 10 and 15 percent of married couples reconcile after separating. Around 6 percent of divorced couples eventually remarry each other.

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6863. Tennessee Man's McDonald's Diet-In 2023, Tennessee resident Kevin Maginnis spent 100 days eating only McDonald's for every meal but limited himself to half portions. Without exercising or counting calories, he lost 58.5 pounds and saw his cholesterol drop by 65 points. His wife, Melody, joined him for the final 60 days and also lost weight.

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6864. Cancer's Ancient Origins Revealed-Around 3000 BC, ancient Egyptians documented cancer on a papyrus that described visible tumors and surgical removal techniques. Centuries later, Greek physician Hippocrates studied the disease and named it

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6865. Honjo Masamune's Mysterious Disappearance-The Honjo Masamune, forged by 13th-century swordsmith Gorō Nyūdō Masamune, was revered as one of Japan's finest blades and a symbol of the Tokugawa shogunate's power. After World War II, Tokugawa Iemasa, a descendant of the shogun and head of the Tokugawa family, surrendered the sword and other heirlooms to Tokyo's Mejiro police station in 1945. A U.S. officer listed as

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6866. Lincoln's Sword Duel Truce-In September 1842, Abraham Lincoln publicly insulted State Auditor James Shields in a series of pseudonymous letters. Shields challenged Lincoln to a duel in Missouri, where the two men confronted each other at Bloody Island. Lincoln, wielding a broadsword, cut a branch overhead to demonstrate his reach, and the men agreed to a truce; he later refused to ever discuss the affair again.

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6867. Diocletian's Price Control Edict-In 301 AD, Roman Emperor Diocletian issued the Edict on Maximum Prices to curb runaway inflation across the empire. The edict set legal caps on hundreds of goods and services, including wages and trade prices. Anyone caught profiteering or violating the caps faced death for their crimes.

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6868. Napoleon's Unusual Hygiene Habits-In his daily routine, Napoleon Bonaparte took nearly two hours for washing, shaving, and dressing, which was rare and unusual for that time. He insisted on hour-long hot baths, and after each bath his valet rubbed him down with eau de cologne. He carried a hygiene kit into military campaigns, including razors, toothbrushes, and bottles of cologne.

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6869. Jon Stewart's Crossword Proposal-Jon Stewart met his future wife, Tracey, via a blind date arranged by a producer on the film Wishful Thinking. He later proposed using a personalized crossword puzzle that he created with help from Will Shortz, the New York Times crossword editor. She accepted, and they married in 2000.

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6870. Ludacris Joins 2 Fast 2 Furious-After rapper Ja Rule declined a $500,000 offer to return in 2 Fast 2 Furious, director John Singleton grew frustrated with him not returning calls. Singleton remarked that Ja Rule acted as though he was too big for the sequel. Singleton immediately offered the role to Ludacris, despite never having met him before.

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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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