Fact Cards

6941. Willis Replaced by Harrison Ford-In 2013, producers of The Expendables 3 offered Bruce Willis $3 million for four days of work reprising his role as Church. Willis demanded $4 million instead, insisting on a $1 million-per-day rate. Sylvester Stallone and the team refused, replacing him with Harrison Ford within 72 hours.

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6942. Fred Durst Pays Trent Royalties-When Fred Durst of Limp Bizkit wrote 'Hot Dog' in 2000 as a diss track aimed at Nine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor, he laced it with lyrics lifted from Reznor's own songs. The track included so many borrowed lines from Nine Inch Nails that Durst was legally required to credit Reznor as a co-writer and pay him royalties.

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6943. Daughter From California Syndrome-In clinical settings, staff use the term daughter from California syndrome for a family member who returns after a long absence and knows little about a terminal patient's condition. The relative arrives angry and articulate but uninformed and challenges the care plan. They often demand unrealistic, aggressive treatment that goes against medical advice.

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6944. Russian Millionaire Audience Sabotage-When Who Wants to Be a Millionaire was introduced in Russia, contestants learned to be wary of the Ask the Audience lifeline. Russian studio audiences frequently misled players by intentionally choosing the wrong answer. By contrast, U.S. audiences got it right over 90 percent of the time.

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6945. Washington's 221-Year Overdue Book-In 1789, President George Washington borrowed the book 'The Law of Nations' from the New York Society Library while it shared Federal Hall with the new federal government. He never ended up returning it. In 2010, the head librarian joked they would skip the fines but would love the book's return. A month later, the Mount Vernon estate sent it back, a full 221 years overdue.

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6946. Barcode Adoption Took 40 Years-When the barcode first appeared, shoppers did not embrace it, and some even spread conspiracies about hidden pricing schemes and control. The barcode industry hit back in the press and called critics Luddites who did not understand the technology. Even so, the scanners and systems were so expensive that it took about 40 years before even half of all registered grocery stores actually used barcodes.

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6947. Genetic Night Owls Clash Schedules-About 30 percent of people are natural night owls whose internal clocks push their peak alertness to later in the day. Their genetics and chronotype make them feel more focused in the evening than in the morning. As a result, early school or work schedules often clash with how their bodies are programmed to function.

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6948. Nebraska Safe Haven Teen Dropoffs-In 2008, Nebraska passed its first child surrender law to let parents safely relinquish babies under 30 days old. Because lawmakers forgot to set an age limit, parents began dropping off much older children, many of them between 10 and 17. The unexpected surge of abandoned teens forced the state to quickly amend the law to cover only infants.

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6949. Plasma Donations Lower PFAS-A 2022 study noted that people who donated blood or, more effectively, blood plasma saw significant drops in the level of PFAS, the so-called forever chemicals, in their bodies. Plasma donation removes PFAS faster because the chemicals bind to blood proteins that are taken out during the process. Researchers pointed to this as a rare, practical way for exposed people to lower their PFAS burden.

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6950. Peanut Avoidance Policy Backfired-In 2000, the American Academy of Pediatrics told parents to keep peanuts away from children zero to three years old in an effort to prevent allergies. Families followed the guidance and removed peanut exposure from infants' diets. Instead of falling, peanut allergy cases rose sharply in the following 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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