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7481. When Anyone Could Roam Airports-Before September 11, 2001, U.S. airports functioned as public social hubs where anyone could walk to the gate, eat at food courts, and watch planes without a ticket or ID. Families and friends routinely accompanied travelers through the terminal, lingering at the windows to see planes take off and land.

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7482. Yale Fertility Center Fentanyl Swap-In 2020, over a five-month period, a nurse at Yale's fertility center stole the fentanyl in 175 vials that were meant to relieve pain for women undergoing egg retrieval procedures. The nurse secretly replaced the powerful opioid with saline solution, so the vials looked normal but contained no effective pain medication. As a result, women went through the invasive procedure without real pain relief.

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7483. Rice Farmers Versus Wheat Individualists-The Rice Hypothesis posits that cultures that engaged in wet rice farming, which requires coordinated irrigation and synchronized planting, tend to be collectivist, while wheat farming cultures evolved to be more individualistic. In rice-growing regions, farmers must share water, maintain canals, and time their planting together, so they rely heavily on their neighbors. Wheat farmers can usually work their fields alone with less need for complex shared systems.

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7484. Bruce Lee’s Short-Lived Stardom-Bruce Lee spent only about three years as a leading man after leaving Hollywood, broke and frustrated at being limited to small roles. He returned to Hong Kong, where he finally starred in his own films and became a major action star. That success led to his first Hollywood starring role in Enter the Dragon. He died three weeks before the film's release, so he never saw how it cemented his global legacy.

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7485. Bonnie Lohman Spots Herself Missing-At age 7, a girl named Bonnie Lohman went to the store with her stepdad and saw her own face printed on a milk carton. She asked to keep the image, and he agreed on the condition that she keep it a secret. Later, her neighbors saw the picture and reported what they saw. After that, Bonnie learned that her mother had kidnapped her when she was 3 years old.

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7486. Child Labor That Haunted Dickens-As a child, Charles Dickens worked 10-hour days in a London boot-blacking factory, a trauma he later called the deepest shame of his life. That harsh routine pushed him to impose a strict 9-2, five-hour writing discipline on himself as an adult. He also carried the memory into his family life and refused to let his own children work.

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7487. Dr Pepper Invents Pepper Soda-Dr Pepper is not a cola, root beer, or fruit-flavored soft drink, but instead belongs to its own category called

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7488. Siri’s Accidental Eavesdropping Costs Apple-In 2025, Apple paid $95 million after Siri was caught eavesdropping on private conversations, including doctor visits and drug deals, and sending those recordings for human contractors to review. The issue arose because Siri did not only respond to the phrase

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7489. Dan Burros, Nazi And Jewish-In the 1960s, Dan Burros rose to become the third-highest-ranked member of the American Nazi Party and the grand dragon of the New York Ku Klux Klan. The New York Times then revealed that he was in fact a Jewish man who had attended Hebrew school and even had a bar mitzvah. After exposing his background, Burros killed himself.

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7490. Pedialyte, Children’s Drink, Adult Hangover-Pedialyte is officially marketed as a hydration drink for children. In practice, though, over a third of its sales come from adults who use it to recover from hangovers.

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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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