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7261. A10 Warthog Recycles Shell Casings-The A-10 Thunderbolt II, nicknamed the Warthog, is famous as a close air support plane that flies around a massive nose-mounted GAU-8 Avenger autocannon. When the cannon spits out its heavy 30-millimeter rounds, the aircraft does not eject the spent shell casings into the air. Instead, a return system feeds the empty cases back into the drum inside the fuselage to keep the aircraft’s weight balanced. By holding on to its own spent shells, the Warthog maintains its center of gravity.

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7262. Mithridates Inspires Mithridatism Poison Immunity-Mithridatism is the practice of protecting oneself against a poison by gradually self-administering nonlethal doses, and it takes its name from Mithridates VI, the king of Pontus. In the first century BCE, Mithridates reportedly feared assassination by poisoning so much that he regularly ingested small amounts of various toxins in an attempt to build immunity.

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7263. Monopoly Go Billion Dollar Marketing-The most expensive video game ever made is Monopoly Go!, whose cost comes almost entirely from its marketing rather than its development. Reports put its marketing budget at about 1 billion dollars, a figure that dominates the overall spending on the title.

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7264. Lucy Lambert Hale Child Socialite-Lucy Lambert Hale, who later became the fiancee of actor John Wilkes Booth, was considered one of the most beautiful socialites of her time in mid-nineteenth-century America. Even as a 12-year-old child, she began receiving romantic poems from admirers who were drawn to her looks and status. Her early life in high society placed her at the center of Washington circles long before her ill-fated engagement made her a historical footnote.

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7265. Norway Mountain NATO Bunker Busstop-Norway operates a secret military base built under a mountain for use during wartime, yet the bus stop in front of its entrance openly carries the name

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7266. Intel Core Chips Binned By Defects-The difference between Intel Core i3, i5, i7, and i9 chips often comes down to how many of the tiny circuits on a wafer survive manufacturing without defects, a process called product binning. In fabrication plants, Intel prints many processor dies on a single silicon wafer and then tests each one to see which have all their parts working correctly and can run at higher speeds. The best-performing dies are placed into higher product bins, ending up as Core i7 or Core i9 models, while those with small defects or lower stable speeds are sold as Core i3 or Core i5.

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7267. Jain Sallekhana Religious Fasting Death-Sallekhana, often described as a socially acceptable form of suicide in Jainism, is a ritual in which Jain monks and some lay followers withdraw to an isolated space and fast to death while meditating. Practitioners see it as a disciplined way to shed attachments and accept death peacefully rather than as an impulsive act. In 2015, Indian authorities banned Sallekhana, but the Supreme Court of India later lifted the ban on the grounds of freedom of religion. Today, estimates suggest that around 200 Jains each year still choose to fast to death through this practice.

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7268. One Inch Rain Weighs Tons-One inch of rain falling on a single acre of ground adds up to about 27,154 gallons of water, which weighs roughly 113 tons.

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7269. Mike Tyson Punch Measured 1800 PSI-Most heavyweight boxers hit with a punching power in the range of about 1,200 to 1,700 PSI, roughly 10 times stronger than an average person’s punch. Within that already brutal class, Mike Tyson recorded a punch measured at about 1,800 PSI. For comparison, the fictional Soviet boxer Ivan Drago in Rocky IV is depicted with a punching power of over 2,100 PSI on a training machine.

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7270. Anthony Olson Nine Years Unneeded Chemotherapy-From 2011 to 2020, a man named Anthony Olson endured nine years of chemotherapy for a cancer that he eventually learned he never had. Doctors told him that without treatment he would be dead by the end of the year, so he followed the aggressive regimen. When a second biopsy came back negative, they told him to ignore the result because it supposedly meant the treatment was working. After years of side effects and fear, he finally discovered that the disease he had been fighting all that time was never actually present.

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37 COMMENTS

  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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