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6911. Roman Doorway Deities (Janus, Cardea)-In late antiquity, Romans had so many different gods that Augustine of Hippo noted that they had at least 3 different gods to deal with the doorways: Forculus for the door, Limentinus for the threshold, and Cardea for the hinge. He mocked the arrangement as needless specialization, arguing that one doorkeeper would suffice and using Cardea's hinge duty to show how far Roman polytheism went.

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6912. Female Morning Clitoral Tumescence-Girls and women can experience nocturnal clitoral tumescence, commonly called morning bean, which is the equivalent of a man experiencing

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6913. Gothic

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6914. Superconducting Super Collider Cancellation Fallout-In October 1993, the US Congress killed the Superconducting Super Collider after costs ballooned toward $11 billion, leaving U.S. theoretical physicists facing a collapsing academic job market. Many shifted to New York banks and helped build quantitative finance, creating models for derivatives, thereby defining a new field of financial engineering and popularizing the quant career.

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6915. Paternal Alcohol, Autism/ADHD Risk-A 2025 review in the journal Andrology reported that fathers who drank alcohol around conception were linked to a 1.43 times higher risk of autism and a 2.71 times higher risk of ADHD in their children. The association tied paternal periconceptional alcohol use to increased neurodevelopmental risk, highlighting a measurable exposure window before pregnancy.

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6916. Japanese TV

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6917. United States Housing Corporation (WWI)-During World War I, the United States created the United States Housing Corporation in 1918 under the Department of Labor to house war production workers near shipyards and arsenals. In about two years, it launched over 83 projects across 26 states, developing 5,033 acres into neighborhoods for more than 170,000 people. The program set federal neighborhood planning standards that influenced later U.S. housing design.

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6918. Paul Hunter

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6919. Stephen King

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6920. £2 Jackpot: Lupita, Jessica Lodge-In 2011, 61-year-old Englishman named Steve Whiteley turned a 2-pound Tote Jackpot bet at Exeter Racecourse into 1.4 million pounds, the largest Tote Jackpot dividend at the time. He picked six winners, including Lupita, which had not won in its previous 26 races, and jockey Jessica Lodge, who earned her first career win; Whiteley said he chose the last pick because

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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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