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7281. UNSW Pupil Test for Aphantasia-In 2022, researchers at UNSW Sydney published a study showing that pupil size changes can objectively track visual imagination. When participants imagined bright or dark shapes with their eyes open, people without aphantasia (the inability to visualize things in your mind) still showed the expected pupil constriction or dilation, but 18 self-reported aphantasic participants demonstrated no meaningful pupil difference between imagined bright versus imagined dark objects.

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7282. Jennifer Thompson’s $25,000 NES Find-In April 2013, Jennifer Thompson spotted the Stadium Events game for the NES behind the counter at the Steele Creek Goodwill in North Carolina, then used Wi-Fi to confirm what she had found before paying $8 with just $30 in her bank account. She took the game to a used video game store in Charlotte, where the clerk offered her all the cash in the register, but she refused and later successfully auctioned it online for $25,000. Collectors covet the cartridge because Bandai released it in 1987 for the short-lived Family Fun Fitness mat, then Nintendo bought the tech, relaunched it as the Power Pad, and reissued the game as World Class Track Meet, leaving the original Stadium Events release unusually scarce and its remaining stock a long-running mystery.

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7283. Handmade Pointe Shoes, Hours Lifespan-Makers build ballet pointe shoes by hand through a multi-step process that can take several days from start to finish. Dancers then put them through intense stress the moment they start working en pointe, crushing the box and breaking down the shank. Students typically get only about 10 to 20 usable hours from a pair, while professionals often burn through them even faster. In extreme cases, a dancer can retire a brand-new pair after a single performance.

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7284. Why Achoo Is Learned Sound-Sneezing is involuntary, but the

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7285. Sakoku and Perry Open Japan-From the 1630s until the mid-19th century, the Tokugawa shogunate enforced a policy called Sakoku, which largely sealed Japan off from the outside world for more than 200 years. Foreign trade was tightly controlled and confined mostly to limited contacts with the Dutch and Chinese at Nagasaki, while most Japanese were forbidden to leave the country. In 1853, U.S. Commodore Matthew Perry arrived in Edo Bay with steam-powered warships and demanded that Japan open its ports. His show of force led to new treaties and the gradual end of Japan's long era of isolation.

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7286. Prince Plays Reporters Instead Interview-Before Super Bowl XLII in 2007, NFL executives told Prince he would have to hold a standard media press conference as the halftime headliner. Prince flatly replied,

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7287. John Boone’s Two Dollar Bail-In 2014, a 23-year-old man named John Boone was arrested in New York City on a misdemeanor charge and sent to Rikers Island to await his court date. Within a week, a judge ordered his release on just $2 bail, but his court-appointed lawyer never told him about the bail amount or the order. Boone stayed in jail for about five months, confused about why he was still behind bars and unable to reach anyone who could explain his status. He finally learned he could go free after a new attorney reviewed his case.

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7288. Greece Repels Mussolini’s 1940 Invasion-In October 1940, Benito Mussolini sent Italian forces from Albania into Greece, expecting a quick victory over a smaller, weaker neighbor. Instead, the Greek army counterattacked through the Pindus Mountains, pushed the Italians back into Albania, and inflicted roughly 102,000 casualties on Italian forces. The stalled campaign forced Nazi Germany to intervene in 1941 to rescue its ally and secure the Balkans. Even after German forces overran the country, Greece refused to surrender to Italy.

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7289. Jesse Lazear’s Deadly Mosquito Experiment-In 1900, American physician Jesse William Lazear, studying yellow fever transmission, deliberately let an infected mosquito bite him to test his belief that the disease spread through mosquito vectors. He soon developed yellow fever himself, confirming his hypothesis. Seventeen days after the experimental bite, Lazear died from the very disease he set out to understand.

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7290. Eminem’s Film Album Single Sweep-In 2002, Eminem pulled off a rare entertainment sweep when he had the number one film at the box office with

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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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