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7421. When Parasites Make Hosts Giant-Parasite gigantism is a process in which a host actually becomes larger after a parasitic infection, most often because of parasitic castration. In many cases, the parasite destroys or consumes the host’s gonads, diverting energy that would have gone into reproduction. As a result, the infected host can grow unusually large.

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7422. The Wrong Michael Jackson Star-In 2009, after pop singer Michael Jackson died, mourners covered a Hollywood Walk of Fame star with flowers, candles, and tributes, believing it honored the musician. In reality, the star belonged to British-born radio host Michael Jackson, whose plaque was accessible, while the singer’s own star was blocked by a movie premiere.

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7423. What Sell By Dates Mean-According to the Institute for Food Safety and Health at the Illinois Institute of Technology, about one-third of a product's shelf life still remains after the sell-by date for the consumer to use at home. This means manufacturers build in a significant buffer between when stores should stop selling an item and when it is expected to remain usable under normal household storage.

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7424. Accidental Birth Of Salton Sea-In the early 1900s, an industrial engineering screw-up on irrigation works for the Imperial Canal caused the entire Colorado River to spill into a low-lying California valley for nearly two years. With the river flooding unchecked through a failed headgate and diversion cuts, water filled the Salton Sink and created a 318-square-mile body of water now known as the Salton Sea. The accidental inland sea remains one of the largest lakes in California, born entirely from that prolonged engineering failure.

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7425. Giant Virus That Builds Proteins-Tupanvirus is an unusually complex giant virus that carries almost all of the genes needed for making proteins, including an extensive set of transfer RNAs and translation-related factors. Discovered in Brazilian aquatic environments, it has one of the most elaborate protein-synthesis toolkits ever seen in a virus. Its near-complete translation machinery blurs the traditional line between simple viruses and fully living cells, challenging how biologists define life.

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7426. Dog Cancer That Spreads Directly-Canine transmissible venereal tumor is a contagious cancer in dogs that spreads when cancer cells themselves are physically transferred during sexual copulation, not through bacteria or viruses. Infected dogs pass living tumor cells to each other, which then take root in the new host’s tissues and grow as a grafted cancer. It is one of only three known directly transmissible cancers in mammals.

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7427. Finland’s Tiny Historic Tatar Community-In Finland, there is a small Tatar ethnic minority of about 600 to 700 people who trace their roots to migrants from the Volga region in Russia who arrived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These Finnish Tatars practice Sunni Islam and speak the Turkic Tatar language, preserving their own religious and linguistic traditions alongside Finnish life. They are recognized as the oldest Muslim community in Finland.

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7428. Beaver Lake To Beverly Hills-Beverly Hills, California, took its name from Beverly, Massachusetts, which itself was named after Beverly in England. The English town’s name comes from Bevreli or Beverlac, meaning beaver clearing or beaver lake.

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7429. MGM Lion Roars Like Tiger-Beginning in 1982, the famous MGM lion’s roar on the studio logo was actually replaced with the recorded sounds of a tiger rather than a lion.

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7430. When Carrots Count As Fruit-In the European Union, jam regulations specify that only fruits can be used to make products labeled as jams and jellies. To preserve the traditional Portuguese carrot jam delicacy known as Doce de Cenoura, lawmakers included a provision that, for the purposes of these rules, carrots count as fruit. This legal tweak lets producers continue marketing carrot jam as jam while staying fully compliant with EU food law.

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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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