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7201. Half US Vinyl Buyers Turntableless-In 2023, a survey found that 50 percent of vinyl record purchasers in the United States did not own a record player to play their records on. The survey showed that many buyers treated vinyl more like a collectible or piece of merchandise than an everyday listening medium.

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7202. Toyota GT86 RC Stripped Variant-In Japan, Toyota once sold a stripped GT86 variant called the RC that came with steel wheels, unpainted plastic bumpers, no air conditioning, and no infotainment screen. Toyota built it this way so budget-minded enthusiasts could buy a cheaper, about 100-pound lighter base car and modify it themselves. Despite the missing comfort features, it kept the same front-engine, rear-wheel drive layout, and handling focus as the regular GT86.

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7203. Why Ancient Life Expectancy Misleads-Life expectancy is not adjusted for infant mortality; it is simply the average number of years a person is expected to live from birth, so early childhood deaths drag the number down. In past societies, including hunter-gatherer groups, many children died very young, but adults who survived those dangerous early years often lived well beyond 35 or 45. Because of this, the familiar claim that “people only lived to 30 in the old days” mostly reflects high child mortality, not adults suddenly dropping dead in middle age.

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7204. Shanghaiing Kidnapped Sailors For Cash-Shanghaiing, also called crimping, was a once common practice in which kidnappers forced people into serving as sailors against their will. In major port cities, especially in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the most successful crimpers could earn the equivalent of more than $300,000 in today’s money by supplying crews to shipmasters. Even as ships and labor systems modernized and reformers tried to stop it, this practice persisted until U.S. legislation in 1915 finally outlawed it.

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7205. East German Trabant Duroplast Body-The Trabant was a car that was once made by an East German car manufacturer. It was unique in the sense that it had a body made of recycled cotton waste and resin called Duroplast instead of conventional steel panels. This unusual composite gave the small car a distinctive, lightweight shell that set it apart from Western models. The Trabant also did not have a fuel gauge, so owners had to open the tank and regularly check the fuel level with a dipstick to avoid being stranded.

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7206. New Jersey Bans English Casebooks-After U.S. independence, New Jersey passed a statute that barred lawyers from citing any English law case decided after July 4, 1776, or relying on English legal textbooks in its courts. This rule forced attorneys and judges to depend on older pre-Revolution English precedents and the new body of American decisions instead of recent British rulings and treatises.

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7207. Stallone Rourke Twice Reject Tarantino-The only actors known to have turned down Quentin Tarantino twice are Sylvester Stallone and Mickey Rourke. Stallone passed on Robert De Niro’s role as bail bondsman Max Cherry in Jackie Brown (1997) and later on Kurt Russell’s stunt driver role in Death Proof (2007). Rourke also rejected the Death Proof part that went to Russell, as well as Bruce Willis’s boxer role in Pulp Fiction (1994).

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7208. House Of Reuss All Heinrichs-For centuries, the House of Reuss, a German princely family that ruled territories such as Gera, has named every male member Heinrich followed by a Roman numeral. Unlike most royal houses that only number ruling monarchs, the Reuss Junior Line used a single numbering sequence for all male family members and began it afresh with the first son born in each new century. This practice produced some of the highest numerals seen in European nobility and meant that brothers could have nonsequential numbers because their male-line relatives shared the same family-wide counting system.

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7209. South Africa 5–10 PowerBall Investigation-In December 2020, South Africa's National Lotteries Commission launched an investigation after a Powerball draw produced the winning numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, with 10 as the Powerball. Regulators reviewed the draw and reported that 20 players shared the jackpot while 79 others matched the main numbers, and their internal probe found no evidence that the lottery had been rigged.

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7210. Open Kettle Becomes Dunkin Donuts-In 1950, the restaurant that would become Dunkin' was renamed from Open Kettle to Dunkin' Donuts after an architect working for the company was inspired by the idea of dunking doughnuts into coffee. The new name captured the pairing of coffee and doughnuts that defined the brand. In 2018, the company shortened its name to Dunkin'.

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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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