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7431. Eminem Adopts Alaina And Nathan-Eminem, a.k.a. Marshall Mathers, has raised more than just his biological daughter, Hailie Jade, in Detroit. After legally adopting Alaina, the daughter of his ex-sister-in-law, and assuming custody of Stevie, his ex-wife’s child with another father, he also took on the role of caregiver for his younger half-brother Nathan.

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7432. Tu Youyou’s Ancient Malaria Breakthrough-Nobel laureate Tu Youyou discovered the malaria drug artemisinin in 1971 after studying a 1600-year-old Chinese medical text,

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7433. Bear 32 Chunk’s Salmon Marathon-In 2024 at Brooks River in Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska, Bear 32, also known as Chunk, was observed eating 45 sockeye salmon over 10.5 hours. At an estimated 3,000 calories per fish, that single feeding session totaled around 135,000 calories in one sitting.

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7434. Levi’s Ten-Wear Jeans Rule-Levi’s recommends wearing its jeans about 10 times before washing them, arguing that frequent laundering is unnecessary.

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7435. Columbus Refuses New Continent Reality-Christopher Columbus crossed the Atlantic in 1492, believing he had reached Asia, and he held to the idea that his landfalls were part of India until his death. Initially, scholars in Portugal and Castile rejected his funding requests because they correctly calculated that India lay much farther away than his optimistic estimates.

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7436. Dolly Parton’s My People Fund-In her home region of Tennessee, Dolly Parton runs one of the largest local employers through Dollywood, and after the 2016 wildfires, she launched the My People Fund that raised over 9 million dollars. Through the fund, more than 900 families received $1,000 a month for six months, totaling $10,000 each to help them rebuild their lives. The FBI later honored her for this leadership and relief effort.

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7437. Northumbria Caffeine Decimal Point Disaster-In March 2015 at Northumbria University, two sports science students in a caffeine study were accidentally given 30 grams of caffeine instead of the intended 0.3 grams after staff misplaced a decimal point while calculating the dose on a mobile phone. The massive overdose, previously known to be potentially fatal at just 18 grams, left them in a life-threatening condition and required intensive care and dialysis. The university apologized in court for the botched experiment and was fined £400,000 for the health and safety breach.

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7438. Cold Sore That Damaged BreelynCold Sore That Damaged Breelyn-A girl named Breelyn was born healthy, but at just two days old someone kissed her on the mouth while they had a cold sore, exposing her to the herpes virus. Because her immune system was not yet developed, she developed HSV encephalitis, which led to seizures and permanent brain damage.

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7439. Britney’s “Hit Me” Translation Error-In Britney Spears’s 1998 debut single,

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7440. Neil Patrick Harris Corpse Platter-In 2011, at a Halloween-themed party he hosted with his husband, Neil Patrick Harris unveiled a graphic meat platter arranged to resemble the corpse of singer Amy Winehouse, who had died earlier that year at age 27. The display included a note calling it

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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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