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7151. Victoria Beckham Costly Flop Album-Victoria Beckham’s self-titled debut album, Victoria Beckham, reportedly cost about £5 million to produce. Despite the huge production budget, it sold only 54,000 copies in Britain.

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7152. British Evacuate Black Loyalists Freed-In 1783, as the American Revolutionary War ended, British commanders in New York chose to honor their wartime promise of freedom to enslaved people who had joined them. The Treaty of Paris required the return of all property, including escaped slaves, but British commander Sir Guy Carleton refused to hand these Black Loyalists back to American enslavers. Instead, officials compiled the Book of Negroes, a detailed register of thousands of men, women, and children who had gained their freedom. To prevent their seizure and re-enslavement in the new United States, they evacuated them by ship to Nova Scotia and other British territories.

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7153. President Garfield Proves Pythagorean Theorem-In 1876, James A. Garfield, who later became president of the United States, published a new proof of the Pythagorean theorem in the New England Journal of Education. His argument used a geometric construction involving right triangles to show that a² + b² = c². Historians credit this work as an original contribution to mathematics. Garfield remains the only U.S. president known to have published an original mathematical proof.

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7154. Darth Vader Actor Spoils Twist-In 1978, two years before The Empire Strikes Back hit theaters, Darth Vader actor David Prowse reportedly gave away the film’s big twist at a public event. While talking about the upcoming sequel, he said that in the next movie fans would learn that Darth Vader was Luke Skywalker’s father. At the time, almost no one took the comment seriously or realized its importance.

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7155. Grand Duchess Elizabeth Gives All-Grand Duchess Elizabeth Feodorovna, both aunt and sister-in-law to Tsar Nicholas II, saw her life change in 1905 when her husband, Grand Duke Sergei Alexandrovich, was assassinated. After his death, she left the imperial court, joined a convent in Moscow, and founded a religious community devoted to serving the poor and sick, even selling her own wedding ring to support the work. She spent the following years living simply and focusing on charity instead of royal privilege. Despite her devotion, Bolshevik forces arrested her after the Russian Revolution and murdered her in 1918.

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7156. Korean White Hanbok Everyday Tradition-For about two thousand years, from early Korean history through the late Joseon era and into the early 20th century, most Koreans wore only plain white clothing called hanbok, a custom that earned them the nickname baekui minjok, or “the white-clothed people.” The tradition developed as undyed white cloth became associated with purity, humility, and everyday simplicity, and it fit with Confucian values and Korea’s strong culture of mourning. In the 20th century, the practice declined as Japanese colonial authorities discouraged white dress and Western-style colored clothing spread, and by the mid-1900s most Koreans no longer wore all-white outfits in daily life.

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7157. Nintendo Creates Goombas For Beginners-During the late development of Super Mario Bros. in the 1980s, Nintendo’s team discovered that players found the Koopa Troopa turtle enemies too difficult for beginners. To give players a simpler, easy-to-defeat enemy, the developers decided to add Goombas, the now-iconic mushroom creatures. Memory space in the game was almost full, so the team created a single small sprite and simply flipped it back and forth to make a walking animation.

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7158. King James Writes Anti Tobacco-In 1604, King James wrote an anti-smoking essay titled

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7159. Gavle Boy Collapses Swedish Witchcraft-In the 1670s, during Sweden’s great witch panic, a Swedish orphan known as the Gävle Boy stood in Stockholm and led groups of children in dramatic accusations that neighbors were witches. His stories helped ignite fear and drive a series of witch trials across the country. Eventually, he confessed that he had lied about the accusations. After his confession, other witch trials across Sweden collapsed, and authorities hanged him for perjury when he was just 13 years old.

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7160. Seoul Name Literally Means Capital-Seoul, the capital of South Korea, takes its name from an old Korean word that literally means 'capital city'.

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  2. 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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  4. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  10. 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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  13. 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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  17. 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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  19. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  26. 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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