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7021. Costco Profits Driven By Memberships-Most of Costco's profits come from membership fees rather than product sales. In 2024, 65.5 percent of the company’s profit came from these membership fees, making the annual dues paid by customers more important to Costco’s bottom line than the margin on what it sells in its warehouses.

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7022. Mussolini Botches Leaning Tower Fix-Benito Mussolini ordered the restoration of the Leaning Tower of Pisa to a vertical position as a showcase for Italy in 1934. In an attempt to stabilize the structure, engineers drilled 361 holes into the foundations and poured 90 cubic meters of concrete into them. Instead of straightening, the tower actually sank further into the soil.

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7023. Receding Gums Never Grow Back-When your gums recede, the tissue pulls away from the teeth and exposes more of the tooth or its root. Unlike some other tissues in the body, receded gums do not grow back on their own once they have pulled away. Dentists can treat gum recession and help prevent it from getting worse, but they cannot make the original gum tissue regenerate.

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7024. Girl Has Transplant Heart Removed-In 1995, surgeon Magdi Yacoub performed a heart transplant on 8-month-old Hannah Clark but chose not to remove her original heart, hoping that if it was given a

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7025. Walter VI Tries Fixing Florence-In 1342 AD, while Florence struggled with a severe banking and public debt crisis, the city appointed a foreigner, Walter VI of Brienne, as a temporary governor to sort out its finances. He imposed measures that taxed the rich and restored the flat tax estimo, moves that went against his agreement with the elite but helped address the fiscal mess. His policies worked so well for the lower classes that they tried to make him ruler for life.

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7026. Pickle Juice Stops Muscle Cramps-The biggest benefit of drinking pickle juice is its ability to quickly stop cramping. Studies have found that it can relieve cramps about 40 percent faster than drinking water, which makes it a favorite among athletes. Because it works so quickly on cramps, many players now reach for pickle juice instead of traditional sports drinks when their muscles seize up.

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7027. North Korea Admits Japan Abductions-In the 1970s and 1980s, a series of unexplained disappearances in Japan led some people to believe that North Korean agents were kidnapping citizens and taking them to the DPRK. Experts and officials largely dismissed these claims as a conspiracy theory, and North Korea denied involvement. In 2002, that changed when Kim Jong Il publicly admitted to the abductions and apologized for the plot.

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7028. Pilots Live In LAX Parking-LAX Airport lets some pilots and airport employees live on airport property by renting them parking spaces for their personal RVs for 60 dollars per month. In a lot along the edges of the airport, commercial airline pilots have created a small city of trailers and RVs that gives them a place to sleep between trips. The cheap rent helps them avoid high Los Angeles housing costs at a time when many pilots earn far less than the public imagines.

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7029. Magnus Carlsen Memorization Child Prodigy-As a child, Magnus Carlsen’s first passion was not chess but memorization. By the age of five, he knew every country’s flag, capital, and population, and later he memorized all 422 Norwegian municipalities and their coats of arms. He did all of this years before he went on to master chess.

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7030. Haym Salomon Finances Revolutionary War-In 1775, Jewish merchant Haym Salomon began personally lending money to help fund the American Revolutionary War, eventually advancing over 650,000 dollars (worth roughly 20 million dollars in 2025). According to Encyclopedia Britannica, the government owed him more than 600,000 dollars, which was never repaid. Salomon died penniless in Philadelphia in 1785, after sacrificing his fortune to keep the fledgling American republic afloat.

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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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