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7031. Nevada Constitution Sent By Telegraph-In 1864, while Nevada was trying to become a U.S. state, territorial governor James W. Nye grew frustrated that earlier attempts to send the state constitution to Washington by land and sea had failed. On October 26, he ordered the full text sent by telegraph at a cost of $4,303.27 (equivalent to $86,514.04 in 2024). The costly transmission finally put the constitution in federal hands and cleared the way for Nevada’s admission as a state at the end of October 1864.

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7032. Fisher Challenges Smoking Cancer Link-In the 1950s, British polymath R. A. Fisher, often called the father of modern statistics, pushed back against emerging studies that linked cigarette smoking to cancer. He argued that correlation does not imply causation and used this line of reasoning to cast doubt on the new epidemiological evidence. His challenge became one of the earliest and most notorious uses of the “correlation does not imply causation” argument in modern science debates.

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7033. Rome Disarms Then Attacks Carthage-After Rome declared war on Carthage at the start of the Third Punic War, the Carthaginians tried to appease them and sent an embassy to negotiate. The Romans demanded that Carthage hand over all of its weaponry, and the city complied, surrendering its arms as a sign of obedience. Once Carthage stood disarmed, Rome attacked anyway.

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7034. McDonalds Removes Salads In 2020-In 2020, McDonald’s stopped selling salads in the United States. The company removed them from its menu nationwide and hasn't offered them again to date (as of November 2025).

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7035. Robert Patrick Naked Train Embarrassment-In 1991, while filming his nude arrival scene as the T-1000 in Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Robert Patrick had to stand completely naked on location. During the shoot, a commuter train went by, and its passengers saw him exposed on the set. Patrick later called it the most embarrassing moment of his career.

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7036. Photographer Killed By Formaldehyde Mixup-In 1985, prize-winning photographer Bob East went in for surgery to remove an eye because of cancer and never came out alive. In the operating room, staff mistakenly injected formaldehyde, which was meant to preserve the removed eyeball, directly into his spine. The error killed him on the table.

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7037. Philosopher Of Gods Cosmic Suicide-Philipp Mainländer was a German philosopher who argued that God committed suicide to create the universe, with the cosmos itself being God's corpse. In his view, the only way an infinite, timeless being could die was by shattering its own being into a time-bound universe. After developing this philosophy, Mainländer took his own life.

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7038. Goats Shot For Medic Training-Combat medics have

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7039. Pollock Numbers Paintings For Neutrality-Jackson Pollock eventually abandoned traditional titles for his paintings and started numbering his works instead. His wife, artist Lee Krasner, explained that “he used to give his pictures conventional titles, but now he simply numbers them,” because “numbers are neutral” and “make people look at a picture for what it is, pure painting.” By stripping away titles, Pollock tried to force viewers to focus on the paint itself rather than on any suggested meaning.

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7040. Charlize Theron Hospitalized From Laughter-While watching

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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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