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6902. Howard Unruh New Jersey Rampage-In 1949, World War II veteran Howard Unruh walked through his Camden, New Jersey, neighborhood and shot 13 people dead in just 12 minutes. His

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6903. Columbia House Alias CD Scam-From 1994 to 1998 in New Jersey, a man named David Russo fooled the computers at Columbia House Music Club and BMG Music Service by using 1,630 aliases and 12 mailboxes, tweaking addresses to trigger first-time buyer deals. He paid about $56,000 total to buy CDs, roughly $2.50 per disc, then operated a

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6904. Susanna Hoffs

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6905. Cadaver Eyelids Reopening Phenomenon-After death, clinical guidance on eyelid closure notes that many patients present with partial eye closure because eyelid muscles lose tone. Simply pressing the lids shut after death rarely keeps them closed, and without mortuary aids, the lids tend to reopen during post-death care.

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6906. Appalachia Ancient Rivers (New, French Broad, Susquehanna)-Three of the five likely oldest rivers on Earth are in Appalachia. The French Broad, New, and Susquehanna Rivers appear among the world's oldest, each estimated at roughly 340-260 million years. Geologists note they fully dissect the Appalachian core formed during the Alleghanian orogeny, which helps date their courses.

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6907. Razzies Ryan Kiera Armstrong Backlash-In January 2023, the Razzie Awards nominated 12-year-old Ryan Kiera Armstrong for Worst Actress for Firestarter, drawing swift backlash. The organizers removed her from the ballot, issued an apology, and introduced a new rule setting a minimum age of 18 for future nominees.

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6908. WWII U.S. Support Versus Combat-In World War II, the U.S. Army fielded a logistics-heavy force where only 19 percent of active personnel served in 'combat roles.' The remaining 81 percent performed support functions, which is a tooth-to-tail ratio of about 1 to 4.3.

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6909. Dodgers-Marlins Batboy Gallon-Milk Bet-In 2005, an L.A. Dodgers pitcher offered a Miami Marlins batboy $500 to drink a gallon of milk in under an hour without throwing up. The batboy finished in 59 minutes but vomited outside the clubhouse. The Marlins suspended him for six games.

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6910. Harry Cohn Three Stooges Suppression-From 1934 to 1957 at Columbia Pictures, president Harry Cohn hid the Three Stooges' true drawing power even as theaters demanded their shorts and he used them to push weaker features. He kept them on last-minute one-year renewals and insisted to the actors that their Three Stooges shorts were dying, so they always feared cancellation. The trio never asked for or received a raise in 23 years.

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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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