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7371. Babies Make Mama Papa Everywhere-Over 50% of languages use some form of 'ma' or 'na' for mother and 'ba,' 'pa,' or 'ta' for father because these are among the easiest sounds for babies to produce.

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7372. Miyake Event Time Stamps Vikings-In 774–775 CE, Earth was hit by an extreme burst of cosmic radiation that left a sharp global spike of carbon-14 in tree rings, a signature now known as a Miyake event. Centuries later, scientists used that distinctive spike as a precise time marker in wood from a Viking site in North America, helping confirm that Norse explorers were there in 1021 CE.

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7373. Lindbergh Kidnapping Creates Federal Crime-Before the infamous Lindbergh kidnapping in the early 1930s, kidnapping was not a federal crime in the United States and was handled only under state law. After the abduction of Charles Lindbergh's infant son and the nationwide manhunt that followed, Congress passed the Federal Kidnapping Act, which made transporting a kidnapped person across state lines a federal offense and gave federal authorities clear power to pursue such cases.

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7374. Picketts Charge Confederacys High Water-Pickett's Charge, a Confederate infantry assault during the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1863, is often called the high water mark of the Confederacy because it marked their deepest push into the Union line in the North. Roughly 12,500 Confederate soldiers advanced across open fields toward the Union center on Cemetery Ridge and took devastating artillery and rifle fire as they closed in. The attack collapsed with heavy casualties, crushing Confederate hopes of winning a decisive victory in the North and forcing General Robert E. Lee to retreat to Virginia.

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7375. Steve Urkel One Episode Takeover-Steve Urkel, the nerdy neighbor from Family Matters, was originally conceived as a one-episode character. His over-the-top personality and catchphrases proved so popular with viewers that the writers kept bringing him back.

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7376. Japan Separates Shinto From Buddhism-For centuries, Shintoism and Buddhism in Japan blended into a single religious landscape, with shared temples, rituals, and deities. In the 1860s, new government campaigns and separation laws deliberately forced the two apart, dismantling joint practices and institutions that had grown together over hundreds of years.

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7377. Jules Vernes Early Product Placement-While Jules Verne was releasing Around the World in Eighty Days as a serial, various railway and ship liner companies offered him money if he would mention their services in the story. Their offers turned his adventure novel into one of the earliest known examples of product placement, as businesses tried to buy their way into the fictional journey.

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7378. San Patricios Hanged In Mexico-During the Mexican-American War in 1847, 16 Irish Catholic soldiers deserted from the U.S. Army and joined Mexican forces, a group later associated with the San Patricio Battalion. They were eventually captured and hanged together from 40-foot gallows in San Angel, near Mexico City, as punishment for switching sides in the middle of the conflict.

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7379. Stranger Things Boosts Eggo Sales-After Stranger Things season 1 aired in the United States, Eggo waffle sales jumped by nearly 14 percent, driven by the character Eleven's on-screen obsession with the brand.

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7380. Gaia Theory Earth Self Regulating-The Gaia Theory proposes that Earth’s living organisms and physical environment interact as a single, self-regulating system. In this view, life does not just adapt to existing conditions but actively helps shape and stabilize the planet’s climate and chemistry over long periods of time, keeping Earth habitable.

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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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