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7011. Toxic Moon Dust Irritates Astronauts-Starting with the Apollo missions in 1969, astronauts tracked lunar dust into their spacecraft after moonwalks when the ultrafine particles clung to their suits. These sharp, unweathered grains, made highly reactive by constant radiation exposure, irritated their eyes and airways and caused watery eyes, throat irritation, and coughing. The symptoms usually faded within about a day, but those brief episodes showed that lunar dust acts as a toxic irritant to humans and helped push NASA to treat it as a serious health risk for future missions.

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7012. Kesha Rewrites Tik Tok Lyric-In 2023, Kesha changed the opening lyric of her hit song

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7013. Pope Leo Confronts Attila-In 452, while Attila the Hun was threatening Rome, Pope Leo I went out from the city to meet him in person, probably near Mantua in northern Italy. Leo acted as an envoy to plead for Italy and tried to persuade the Hun king to spare the city. The exact words spoken at their meeting are unknown, but after it ended, Attila withdrew his forces and never invaded Rome.

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7014. First EEG Of Dying Brain-The first-ever recording of a dying human brain shows waves similar to memory flashbacks. In a study led by neurosurgeons at the University of Louisville, they monitored an 87-year-old epilepsy patient with continuous EEG when he had a heart attack and died, capturing 900 seconds of brain activity around the moment of death. The team found patterns normally linked to high cognitive functions like memory retrieval.

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7015. Cave Diver Chooses Suicide Underwater-In 2002, 31-year-old Czech tourist Miroslav Kuklis joined a cave diving trip in Croatia and entered an underwater cave. When he became lost inside and ran out of oxygen, he stabbed himself in the chest with a knife to avoid the prolonged pain of drowning. Because of the knife wound, police initially treated the case as a homicide, but investigators later concluded that Kuklis had committed suicide in the cave.

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7016. Teens Meet Friends Far Less-Since the early 1990s, the share of boys and girls who say they meet up with friends almost daily outside school hours has declined by nearly 50 percent. Researchers tracked adolescent survey answers over time and found that far fewer young people now report this kind of regular, in-person socializing with friends.

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7017. Menander Ancient Comedy Superstar Lost-For nearly a thousand years in the ancient world, Menander of Athens was the most popular and admired comedian, celebrated long after his lifetime. Over time, his work disappeared so completely that only his reputation remained, until 1952, when a single play was rediscovered in Egypt intact enough to be performed again.

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7018. Mbabaram Language Independently Says Dog-The Mbabaram language, an extinct Australian Aboriginal language from north Queensland, famously used the word 'dog' to mean 'dog.' Linguist R. M. W. Dixon initially suspected English influence when a speaker gave him this word, but he confirmed that Mbabaram genuinely used 'dog' (pronounced very close to Australian English 'dog') and that it evolved independently.

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7019. Tiger Woods Rejects LIV Millions-In 2022, the CEO of LIV Golf revealed that Tiger Woods turned down an offer of between $700 million and $800 million to leave the PGA Tour and join the Saudi-backed league. Norman said the figure came from an early proposal that attempted to lure Woods as one of LIV Golf's biggest stars. Woods rejected the deal and chose to stay with the PGA Tour instead.

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7020. Quick Brown Fox Hotline Test-The first message sent over the Moscow–Washington hotline was

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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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