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6961. CIA Vault 7 Tools Exposed-In March 2017, WikiLeaks published a series of documents about a secret CIA hacking program known as Vault 7. The files described tools that could turn smartphones, computers, smart TVs, and even vehicles into surveillance devices. The leak showed that the agency's Center for Cyber Intelligence had built an extensive digital arsenal for covert monitoring.

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6962. Contaminated Grave at Arlington-The Arlington National Cemetery contains more than 400,000 graves, all under U.S. Army direction except one. Specialist R. L. McKinley died in a reactor accident, and officials consider his remains contaminated. For that reason, the Atomic Energy Commission keeps authority over his grave and requires its permission before anyone can disturb it.

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6963. WWII Army Orange Concentrate-During World War II, the U.S. Army asked food researchers to develop a better source of vitamin C for soldiers because troops disliked the vitamin C tablets they were given. In the early 1940s, they created concentrated orange juice that could be shipped and stored without spoiling. The new product gave soldiers an easy, palatable way to avoid scurvy. That wartime solution later became a staple in American kitchens.

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6964. Korean War Deaths Recounted-For decades after the 1950-1953 Korean War, the United States officially listed 54,246 American dead, and that figure was etched on the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. In 2000, officials reexamined the records and found that a government clerk had wrongly included thousands of postwar accidental and illness deaths in the total. The corrected count of combat and theater deaths was 36,940.

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6965. Keiko's Failed Wild Release-Keiko, the orca who starred in the 1993 film Free Willy, became the focus of an international effort to return him to the wild. After years of rehabilitation in Oregon, crews transported him to Iceland in 1998 and released him into the open sea in 2002. Instead of joining wild pods, he repeatedly sought out humans and followed boats, showing he had not fully adapted to life in the wild. In December 2003, about a year after his release, he died of pneumonia in Norway.

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6966. Wichita Language Died 2016-The Wichita language was once spoken by the Wichita people of Oklahoma. By the early 21st century, only one fluent speaker, Doris McLemore, still used it. When she died in 2016, the language lost its last native voice. Her death marked the extinction of Wichita as a living, spoken language.

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6967. Venice Mocked Marco Millions-When Marco Polo returned to Venice from his long travels in Asia, he kept telling people about the enormous wealth, great cities, and powerful rulers he had seen. Many Venetians did not believe his stories and thought he exaggerated every detail. They began mocking him by calling him Messer Marco Milioni, or Mr. Marco Millions.

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6968. Condom Found in Patient's Lung-In one peculiar medical case, doctors treated a woman for six months for a persistent cough and fever, and for four of those months they gave her antibiotics and antituberculosis medication, but nothing worked. Imaging and further examination finally showed an inverted, bag-like structure lodged in her lung. When they removed it, the object turned out to be a condom.

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6969. Ted Bundy's 1977 Window Escape-In 1977 in Aspen, Colorado, Ted Bundy was allowed to appear in court without handcuffs or leg shackles because he acted as his own attorney. The extra freedom let him move around the law library on the second floor. He used the opportunity to jump out of a second-story window and escape from custody. Authorities recaptured him six days later.

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6970. Ann Cooper Hewitt Sterilized-In 1935 in San Francisco, heiress Ann Cooper Hewitt entered the hospital for what she was told was a routine appendectomy. Her mother, Maryon Cooper Hewitt, persuaded the doctors to sterilize Ann at the same time, telling them it was necessary. The surgery meant Ann could never have children, and that mattered because her late father's will said that if she had no heirs, her share of the estate would go back to her mother. When Ann found out, she took the case to court, and the story became a public scandal.

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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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