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7181. FD&C Blue Raspberry Candy Flavor-Blue raspberry flavor is typically made from flavor compounds that mimic pineapple, banana, and cherry, and the bright blue coloring helps keep it from being confused with red flavors like cherry, strawberry, and watermelon. Food companies use this manufactured flavoring in candies, snack foods, syrups, and soft drinks, often sweetening it heavily to boost its appeal. After the FDA approved synthetic dye FD&C Blue No. 1 in 1969, manufacturers began pairing that vivid blue color with the raspberry profile, cementing

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7182. Bayume Husen Afro-German Actor-Born in 1904 in German East Africa, Bayume Mohamed Husen was an Afro-German who served as a child soldier in the German army during World War I and later moved to Berlin in 1929. In Berlin, he worked as a waiter, Swahili language assistant, and actor, appearing in Africa-themed and Nazi propaganda films and performing with the Deutsche Afrika Schau. In August 1941, the Gestapo arrested him in Berlin for a relationship with a German woman that violated Nazi racial laws and sent him to a concentration camp, where he died in 1944.

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7183. European Badgers Sharing Fox Dens-Across Europe, naturalists have noted that European badgers sometimes share their underground dens with red foxes, raccoon dogs, or even rabbits. In lowland forests of western Poland, a study conducted between 2012 and 2014 and again in 2018 monitored 94 badger setts and found that more than half of red fox and raccoon dog litters were raised in dens cohabited with badgers. The researchers reported that this cohabitation did not reduce litter sizes for badgers, foxes, or raccoon dogs.

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7184. Selenium Shortage Shaped Zhou Warhorses-China’s selenium-poor soils limited the strength, fertility, and reliability of its native horses, while selenium-rich grasslands in regions like Mongolia produced hardier warhorses. Early Chinese states, including the Zhou, bought horses from these northern steppe zones, which created an economic and military interdependence that benefited both sides. This same mineral imbalance meant that whenever relations with the northern steppe peoples deteriorated, China faced a serious strategic threat because its best military horses depended on access to foreign, selenium-rich pastures.

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7185. MASH Finale Real Malibu Wildfire-During the filming of the M*A*S*H series finale,

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7186. Abolitionists White Slave Photo Campaign-In the mid-19th and early 20th centuries, some abolitionists and anti-slavery activists highlighted the existence of so-called “white slaves,” people who appeared white but were legally enslaved under the one-drop rule. They circulated photographs and stories of these individuals to confront white audiences with the idea that someone who looked like them could still be treated as property.

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7187. Taft Replaces White House Stables-In 1911, at the White House, U.S. President William Howard Taft, who weighed about 345 to 360 pounds, found that several horses proved unequal to his hearty constitution and bulk. After struggling to find a mount that could comfortably carry him, he decided the traditional stables no longer made sense. He ordered the White House stables demolished and replaced them with a four-car garage.

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7188. Colonel Bogey Creates Golf Bogey-In the 1890s, British golfers played against an imaginary opponent called “Colonel Bogey,” who was said to take a fixed, predetermined number of strokes on each hole. Clubs drew up Colonel Bogey scoring tables so that players could measure their performance against this fictional ideal rather than just other golfers. Over time, golfers began using “bogey” to describe a standardized target score, and eventually, in modern scoring, it shifted to mean one stroke over par on a hole.

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7189. Barthelemy de Chasseneuz Defends Rats-In early 16th-century France, villagers brought a group of rats to trial for destroying their barley crops and summoned them before the court. The animals received a formal legal defense from Barthélemy de Chasseneuz, a young lawyer who argued that the rats could not appear because traveling to court was dangerous due to the presence of cats. His clever procedural arguments led the court to drop the case, giving the rats a rare legal victory.

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7190. Frank Devereaux Bear Death Struggle-In 1883, searchers found the body of Frank Devereaux and a bear lying dead beside each other, with the ground around them thrashed over roughly 20 square feet. The disturbed earth and the positions of the bodies led observers to believe that the man and the animal had fought each other to the death.

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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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