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7051. British Unwritten Constitutional System-The United Kingdom does not have a single written, codified constitution, and there is no document officially titled

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7052. Woman Spits To Claim Otzi-In a legal battle over the discovery of Otzi the Iceman, one claimant told the court that she spat on the 5,300-year-old mummy to

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7053. German POWs Picking Southern Cotton-During World War II, the United States used German prisoners of war held in the American South as farm labor. In Mississippi and other states, camp officials forced these POWs to work in cotton fields to help make up for wartime labor shortages.

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7054. Weekly Moviegoing Collapses After 1960s-In 1930, more than 65 percent of the U.S. population went to the movies every week, meaning that out of every five people someone knew, three of them were regular weekly moviegoers. Over the following decades, that habit steadily faded. Since around 1964, the share of Americans who go to the movies every week has consistently stayed under 10 percent.

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7055. Crypto Cruise Ship MS Satoshi-In October 2020, a group of libertarian cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought the cruise ship Pacific Dawn for about $9.5 million, renamed her MS Satoshi, and planned to anchor her off Panama as a floating city and tech hub where residents would buy cabins and spend Bitcoin in onboard businesses. The project quickly hit hard limits when the owners could not secure insurance for a permanent residential ship and realized they did not have enough money to keep such a large vessel running. By December 2020 they abandoned the plan and slated the ship for scrap, but a European cruise start-up later bought her, refitted her, and returned her to service as the cruise ship Ambience.

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7056. Runner Walks To Olympic Trials-In 1928, Black distance runner Dolphus Stroud qualified for the 5000-meter Olympic trials in Boston but had to get there on his own. He spent 12 days walking, running, and hitchhiking to reach the city, arriving only six hours before his race. Exhausted and malnourished from the journey, he collapsed during the sixth lap.

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7057. Thresh Pioneers Professional Gaming Career-Dennis Fong, known online as Thresh, became widely recognized as the first professional gamer, earning about $100,000 a year in prize money and endorsements at the height of his career. In 1997, he hit a famous peak when he won a Ferrari as a tournament prize. After his competitive days, he moved into tech and co-founded the gaming service Xfire, which Viacom later bought for $102 million.

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7058. Fieldston Private New York Enclave-In the Fieldston neighborhood of New York City, the entire 1.1 km² area is privately owned, including its streets, sewers, and trees. As a private community, residents control and maintain the internal infrastructure themselves rather than relying on the city. Once a year, they close the streets to non-residents so the roads continue to qualify legally as privately owned.

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7059. Pilots Fly Into Ivy Mike-The Air Force tasked four pilots to fly into the mushroom cloud of Ivy Mike, the first hydrogen bomb test. On 1 November 1952 at Enewetak Atoll in the Pacific, the explosion yielded about 10.4 megatons of TNT and produced a towering radioactive cloud that the jets had to enter to collect data before turning back. Three pilots made it home, but Captain Jimmy Robinson ran low on fuel after leaving the cloud, crashed into the ocean on his way back to base, and never returned.

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7060. German Type XIV Milk Cows-In World War II, Germany built the Type XIV submarines, nicknamed “milk cows,” which operated exclusively to resupply other U-boats at sea. Each carried a bakery, a small clinic with a doctor, fresh food, extra fuel, and torpedoes so front-line submarines did not need to return to port. By refueling and rearming U-boats in the Atlantic, the Type XIV allowed German submarines to patrol near U.S. waters for far longer than they otherwise could.

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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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