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7221. Sudanese Soldiers Sent To Mexico-In 1865, the Empire of Mexico recruited about 900 Black Sudanese soldiers from Egypt because officials believed they would fight better in tropical climates and had immunity to yellow fever. In reality, the Egyptian Auxiliary Corps that sailed, about 450 men serving under French command in the hot lowlands around Veracruz, was hit by typhus, yellow fever, dysentery, and other diseases and suffered 126 casualties before the campaign ended. Surviving soldiers were withdrawn to Egypt in 1867, and after the United States pressed the Ottoman authorities not to send further troops, no more Sudanese battalions were dispatched to Mexico.

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7222. Tranquillity Lodge 2000 Claims Moon-Tranquillity Lodge No. 2000 is a Masonic lodge that claims jurisdiction over the Moon and traces its authority from the Grand Lodge of Texas, where Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin is a member. Before the 1969 mission, the Grand Master of Texas issued Aldrin a special deputation authorizing him to claim Masonic jurisdiction on the lunar surface on their behalf. Aldrin carried this document with him to the Moon, and, after the landing in the Sea of Tranquility, the lodge later took its name.

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7223. Miami Cannibal Lacked Bath Salt-In May 2012, police in Miami shot and killed Rudy Eugene after he violently attacked Ronald Poppo beside a causeway and chewed off parts of his face. Early news reports and officials speculated that Eugene had taken synthetic drugs known as bath salts and nicknamed him the Miami cannibal. Toxicology tests later found only marijuana in his system and no bath salts or similar drugs.

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7224. Gaddafi Lectures 200 Italian Models-While visiting Italy for the World Food Summit in November 2009, Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi hired about 200 Italian models to attend what they thought would be a glamorous party. Instead of socializing, he spent the evening lecturing them on Islam, urging them to convert and presenting his views at length. At the end of the night, he handed out copies of the Koran and his own political book.

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7225. Disabled Neanderthal Nandy Lived Supported-In Shanidar Cave in Iraq, archaeologists uncovered the skeleton of a Neanderthal male known as Shanidar 1, or Nandy, who had lived into his 40s despite severe disabilities. His bones show a crushed eye socket that likely caused blindness on one side, major hearing loss, a missing right arm, and serious leg and foot damage that would have left him with a painful limp. Because these injuries had healed long before his death, researchers conclude that other members of his community must have fed, protected, and cared for him for many years.

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7226. Depression Spreads Between Caged Rats-In 2018, scientists studying mood disorders found that they could induce depression in laboratory rats simply by housing them with already depressed cage mates. When they placed one healthy rat in a cage with two depressed rats and kept them together for five weeks, the previously healthy animal developed the same depression-like behaviors as its companions.

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7227. Stove-Heated Lava Lamp Kills Quinn-In 2004, 24-year-old Phillip Quinn of Kent, Washington, tried to heat a lava lamp on a stove. The lamp exploded under the heat, sending glass shards flying through the room. One piece of glass pierced Quinn’s heart, and he died from the injury.

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7228. Edo Gonin Gumi Punished Neighbors-In Japan during the Edo period, authorities organized commoners into gonin gumi, groups of five households that they held collectively responsible for crimes and other offenses. If one family broke the law or failed in its duties, officials could punish all five households, even those who had done nothing wrong. The system encouraged neighbors to watch each other closely and pressured everyone in the group to keep one another from causing trouble.

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7229. Type 5 Diabetes Childhood Malnutrition-Type 5 diabetes, formerly called Type J, is a rare form of diabetes caused by childhood malnutrition rather than genetics or autoimmune attack.

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7230. Betel Nut Fourth Global Psychoactive-Betel (areca) nut is the fourth most used psychoactive drug in the world, coming after nicotine, alcohol, and caffeine. Researchers estimate that at least 10 percent of the world’s population, around 600 million people, regularly chew betel nut. They keep using it despite strong evidence that long-term chewing carries a high risk of cancer and heart disease.

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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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