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7271. Egypt Bans Marilyn Monroe Films-Egypt banned all of Marilyn Monroe's films after she converted to Judaism in 1956 in order to marry playwright Arthur Miller. After Monroe and Miller split and their marriage ended in divorce, Egypt lifted the restriction and allowed her films to return to circulation.

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7272. 1992 First Confirmed Exoplanets Discovered-The existence of planets outside our solar system, now called exoplanets, was not confirmed until 1992. That year, astronomers used precise measurements of radio signals from a pulsar to detect tiny timing variations that revealed the presence of planets orbiting it.

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7273. Microsoft Kin Phone Fails Quickly-In 2010, after investing two years and about 1 billion dollars, Microsoft launched the Kin line of mobile phones in partnership with Verizon. Poor sales followed almost immediately, and Microsoft discontinued the entire Kin line in June 2010 after only 48 days on the market. Afterward, Microsoft blamed Verizon for not promoting the phones actively enough.

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7274. George Michael One Man Last Christmas-In 1984, George Michael single-handedly wrote, produced, sang, and played every instrument on the holiday single

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7275. Peter The Great Ineffective Disguise-Between 1697 and 1698, Tsar Peter the Great of Russia traveled through Western Europe incognito under the alias Peter Mikhailov to study European advances in learning and statecraft. He joined what became known as the Grand Embassy, visiting places like the Dutch Republic and England to observe shipyards, workshops, and modern administration firsthand. At about 6 feet 8 inches tall, he was likely the tallest man in Europe at the time, which made the idea of him passing as an ordinary traveler nearly absurd, even as he tried to blend in under a fake name.

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7276. Hitler Bunker Buried Under Parking-Adolf Hitler’s Berlin bunker, the Führerbunker, where he spent his final days in April 1945, now lies sealed beneath a gravel parking lot beside an apartment complex. After World War II, Soviet and East German authorities partially demolished and backfilled the underground complex and later redeveloped the area with new buildings and roads. By the late twentieth century, nothing visible remained of the bunker on the surface.

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7277. Crow Tribe Mourns Custer Dead-During the Great Sioux War of the 1870s, the Crow tribe backed the United States in its fight against their traditional enemies, the Lakota. At the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876, Crow scouts rode with George Armstrong Custer and later mourned the deaths of Custer and his men. According to accounts, people of the Crow tribe said they could only sleep peacefully without fear of Lakota attacks after the Lakota were finally defeated.

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7278. Grand Rapids Dip Drunk Driving-Some drunk driving studies have found that drivers with a blood alcohol concentration between 0.01% and 0.04% appear to have a slightly lower accident risk than completely sober drivers. Researchers call this odd pattern the Grand Rapids dip, after an early landmark study that reported it. The effect does not mean drinking makes people safer behind the wheel; instead, analysts view it as a quirk of statistics, influenced by factors like who chooses to drive after drinking very small amounts and how data are collected. The Grand Rapids dip now serves as a reminder that raw numbers in safety studies can sometimes hide confusing or misleading patterns.

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7279. Emma Morano Last 1800s Birth-There are no longer any people alive who were born in the 1800s, because the final verified person from that century, Emma Morano of Italy, died in 2017 at the age of 117. Born in November 1899 in the Kingdom of Italy, she lived through the entire twentieth century and well into the twenty-first.

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7280. Radio Royalties Pay Writers Only-In the United States, traditional radio airplay pays songwriters and music publishers, not the performers whose voices and playing appear on the recording. When a station spins a track, performance royalties flow to the people who hold the writing credits. If a recording artist does not have a writing credit on that song, they do not receive money from its radio plays, no matter how often it airs.

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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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