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7321. Japanese Rail Pointing And Calling-Workers use a safety technique known as

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7322. Xerox 914 Copier With Extinguisher-Introduced in 1959, the Xerox 914 was the first successful plain paper office copier, a 650-pound machine that revolutionized document duplication but had a dangerous habit of catching fire during heavy use. Offices loved that it could copy on ordinary paper instead of special coated sheets, so they ran it nonstop and pushed its hot, oily mechanisms to the limit. The machines overheated so often that Xerox famously supplied some customers with fire extinguishers to keep next to the copier.

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7323. DARVO Deny Attack Reverse Offender-DARVO stands for

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7324. Taylor Mitchell’s Fatal Coyote Attack-In October 2009, 19-year-old Canadian folk singer Taylor Mitchell was hiking alone in Cape Breton Highlands National Park in Nova Scotia when two coyotes attacked her on the trail. Other hikers and park staff rushed to intervene, and emergency crews airlifted her to a hospital in Halifax. Despite surgery and intensive care, she died from her injuries the next day. Her case remains the only documented instance of a fatal coyote attack on an adult human.

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7325. Driftless Area Ice Age Refusal-The Driftless Area is a rugged region in the upper Midwest United States that glaciers somehow skipped during the last Ice Age, even as ice sheets covered the surrounding land multiple times. Because the ice never scraped it flat, the landscape kept its steep valleys, sandstone bluffs, and cold spring-fed streams, creating a pocket of unique geology and ecology. Rare plants, trout streams, and carved coulees all survive there as living relics of an older landscape. Today, habitat destruction, agriculture, and soil erosion threaten to wear down what the ice itself once left untouched.

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7326. Frank Culbertson’s 9/11 From Orbit-On September 11, 2001, astronaut Frank Culbertson was aboard the International Space Station when NASA told the crew that attacks were unfolding in the United States. As the ISS passed over the East Coast, he grabbed a camera and photographed the plume of smoke rising from Ground Zero in Manhattan. Looking down from orbit, he described New York as

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7327. U.S. Craft Brewery Boom Decade-Between 2010 and 2020, the number of craft breweries in the United States jumped from fewer than 2,000 to nearly 9,000. That surge reflected a massive shift in drinking culture, as consumers sought local, small batch beers instead of sticking only with national lagers. New microbreweries and taprooms popped up in cities, suburbs, and small towns, turning beer into a regional identity marker and tourist draw.

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7328. Beethoven Performs From Blank Pages-At the 1803 premiere of his Piano Concerto No. 3 in Vienna, Beethoven sat down to perform with a page turner beside him, only for the assistant to discover that the soloist's score was almost completely blank. The concerto was still a work in progress, and Beethoven had not fully written out the piano part, so the pages held only a few scattered notes and cues. Instead of stopping, he played his entire solo line from memory.

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7329. Abu Said’s Alleged Poisoned Handkerchief-In 1335, Abu Said, the last effective ruler of the Ilkhanate, reportedly died soon after a visit to the tent of his consort, Baghdad Khatun. According to later chroniclers, she wiped him down with a poisoned handkerchief after they had sex, taking revenge for the way he had forced their marriage and moved against her powerful family. Abu Said's sudden death without an heir shattered central authority in the Ilkhanate. The Mongol state in Persia soon fragmented into rival khanates and local dynasties fighting over the pieces.

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7330. Bill Murray’s Groundhog Bite Scars-During the filming of the 1993 movie Groundhog Day, Bill Murray worked with a real groundhog playing Punxsutawney Phil for the close-up scenes. At one point, the animal bit him twice, sinking its teeth into his finger even through a steel glove meant to protect him. The bites were strong enough to break the skin and leave a permanent mark. Murray has said the scar from those encounters is still visible on his finger today.

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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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