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7451. Neil Armstrong Moon Call Myth-For years, a popular myth circulated in several Muslim-majority countries claiming that Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong converted to Islam after supposedly hearing the call to prayer while on the Moon. The story spread so widely that it forced the U.S. State Department to issue an official denial, and Armstrong himself publicly rejected the claim in statements and interviews.

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7452. Flea Enrolls As USC Freshman-In 2008, while Red Hot Chili Peppers were on hiatus, 45-year-old bassist Flea enrolled as a freshman in the University of Southern California’s music program to deepen his understanding and appreciation of music. He put himself in classrooms alongside much younger students so he could study music theory and composition in a structured way.

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7453. Why Polar Bears Avoid Antarctica-Scientists sometimes get asked why they cannot just relocate polar bears to Antarctica to save them, but conservation groups point out that the main reason is simple: the bears would eat too many emperor penguins. Introducing a top Arctic predator into the Antarctic ecosystem would devastate penguin populations instead of solving the polar bears’ problems, so researchers strongly oppose the idea.

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7454. Coppola’s Megalopolis Box Office Flop-Francis Ford Coppola reportedly put more than 100 million dollars of his own money into financing his passion project, Megalopolis. Despite that massive personal investment, the film went on to earn only about 14.4 million dollars at the box office.

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7455. 1978 Marquette Case Unleashes Usury-For much of U.S. history, most states treated credit card interest rates above roughly 18 percent as illegal usury, but that changed after a single 1978 Supreme Court case, Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp. The Court ruled that nationally chartered banks could charge interest based on the laws of the state where they were located, not the borrower’s state, which let banks “export” high rates from permissive states like Nebraska to the rest of the country.

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7456. Invisible Nick Kills Five Aboard-In 1989, a helicopter flying near New Jersey crashed after an invisible fatigue crack in a main rotor blade, which began at a tiny tool mark where a sharp blade had trimmed adhesive from the blade spar, finally caused the blade to fail after 922 hours of operation. The resulting imbalance sent it into an uncontrolled descent. All five people on board were killed, and investigators traced the accident to that manufacturing-induced scratch and inadequate quality control.

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7457. Alitalia’s $39 Business Class Fiasco-In 2006, Alitalia Airlines accidentally listed a business class fare from Toronto to Cyprus as $39 instead of $3,900. Within hours, more than 2,000 people bought tickets at the mistaken price, and the airline chose to honor the fare, eating about 7.2 million dollars in losses. The costly typo became one of several financial missteps on Alitalia’s slide toward eventual bankruptcy.

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7458. Vice President Sworn In Cuba-In 1853, U.S. Vice President William R. King was so ill that he took his oath of office in Cuba instead of traveling to Washington, becoming the only U.S. president or vice president ever sworn in on foreign soil. He never recovered enough to serve in the capital and died less than a month later, ending his term before he could carry out his duties in Washington.

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7459. Elcano Finishes Magellan’s Circumnavigation-Ferdinand Magellan set out with a crew of about 270 sailors to circumnavigate the globe, but he died in the Philippines before he could complete the journey. After his death, a surviving crew of just 18 or 19 men, led by Juan Sebastián Elcano, brought the expedition home and completed the journey he had begun without their original commander.

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7460. Westermarck Effect Stops Childhood Attraction-The Westermarck effect describes how children who grow up together during key early years do not usually develop sexual attraction to each other as adults. Researchers observed this in settings like Israeli kibbutzim and arranged

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  2. 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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  4. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  10. 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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  13. 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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  17. 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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  19. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  26. 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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