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7461. Oxford Denies Thatcher Honorary Degree-In 1985, the University of Oxford broke with tradition and voted to refuse an honorary degree to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as a deliberate protest against her government’s cuts to higher education funding. Oxford had previously awarded this honorary degree automatically to all prime ministers, so the decision publicly singled her out.

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7462. FDR’s Affair With Lucy Mercer-Franklin D. Roosevelt, who later became the only four-term U.S. president, carried on a long-term secret affair with Lucy Mercer, the former social secretary of his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor discovered the relationship in 1918, and although the Roosevelts stayed married for political and personal reasons, Lucy remained connected to FDR’s life in varying degrees for years afterward, including being present at Warm Springs when he died in 1945.

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7463. Vitamin D Supplements Kill Elderly Man-In 2023, an elderly man in the UK died after taking excessive amounts of over-the-counter vitamin D supplements for about nine months. His prolonged high-dose intake led to vitamin D toxicity, which caused dangerously high calcium levels and serious health complications.

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7464. Jamaica’s Black Green Gold Flag-Jamaica’s national flag stands out in the world because it uses only black, green, and gold, making it the only country flag without red, white, or blue in its design. Adopted at independence in 1962, the flag’s bold color choice sets Jamaica apart from every other nation that includes at least one of those three common colors.

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7465. Objective Tinnitus You Can Hear-In rare instances, the sound of tinnitus is detectable by someone other than the patient. It can be heard using a stethoscope, and doctors call this form objective tinnitus. Instead of being a purely internal noise only the sufferer perceives, the sound in these cases comes from a physical source in or near the ear that produces an audible signal another listener can pick up.

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7466. Jonny Greenwood Pretends To Play-When Jonny Greenwood first joined Radiohead, he pretended to play keyboards by miming on a powered-off instrument and only learned the chords after studio sessions. During early recording, Thom Yorke would tell him that he could not quite hear what Greenwood was doing but thought he was adding an interesting texture.

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7467. Barbie Girl Sex Joke Lawsuit-In 1997, Danish pop group Aqua released Barbie Girl, a song that played with sex and kink rather than children’s dolls, and toy maker Mattel sued, claiming it violated the Barbie trademark by portraying her as a “blonde bimbo” and sex object. The case, Mattel, Inc. v. MCA Records, Inc., reached U.S. federal court, where judges ultimately treated the track as a protected parody and rejected Mattel’s attempt to control the song’s depiction of its famous doll.

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7468. Wide Awakes Torchlit Silent Marches-The Wide Awakes were a youth organization and marching club that formed shortly before the American Civil War, made up of young men who organized nighttime political parades across the northern United States. They marched in silence to the beat of a drum, eyes fixed straight ahead, dressed in black capes and hats while carrying six-foot torches through city streets.

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7469. FDA Bans Sassafras Root Beer-In 1960, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned sassafras, the original ingredient that flavored root beer, because it contained safrole. Studies had shown safrole to be carcinogenic in lab animals, so commercial producers dropped traditional sassafras oil and switched to artificial flavorings or safrole-free sassafras extracts to keep root beer on shelves without the risky compound.

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7470. George Washington Becomes American Fabius-During the American Revolutionary War, George Washington earned the nickname American Fabius because he used a Fabian strategy similar to the Roman general Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus, known as Cunctator, or the delayer. Instead of seeking large, decisive pitched battles, Washington avoided full-scale confrontations and focused on wearing down British forces through attrition, raids, and strategic retreats. This approach preserved his army and helped keep the revolution alive until conditions favored a decisive victory.

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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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