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7501. Dioxin Dusting Destroys Times Beach-Between 1970 and 1976, the town of Times Beach, Missouri hired waste oil hauler Russell Bliss to spray its unpaved gravel roads for dust control, not knowing he had mixed in highly toxic dioxin. He tried to dispose of the chemical waste by adding it to engine oil and spreading it across about 23 miles of town roads. The EPA confirmed the dangerous TCDD contamination in December 1982, prompting health officials to order the evacuation and demolition of the town. The state disincorporated Times Beach in 1985, and after cleanup, the land reopened in 1999 as Route 66 State Park.

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7502. Patton Slaps Soldiers, Leads Phantom-During World War II, General George S. Patton was relieved of command after two separate incidents in which he slapped shell-shocked soldiers in a field hospital. News of his behavior sparked a massive public outcry in the United States. In response, General Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered Patton to apologize to the men he had assaulted. Eisenhower then reassigned him to help lead a “phantom” decoy unit equipped with inflatable tanks.

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7503. Secondhand Weed Smoke Tags Kids-Studies have shown that secondhand marijuana smoke can make children test positive for THC even when the smoker is not in the same room.

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7504. Columbus Miscalculates His Ocean Distance-Christopher Columbus made significant errors when he estimated the distance from Europe to Asia, assuming the voyage would be far shorter than it actually was. He set out expecting to reach Japan with the food and supplies he carried, but his calculations ignored how vast the ocean really is. If the Americas had not been in his path, his ships would have run out of provisions long before reaching Asia and doomed the expedition.

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7505. Knut Hamsun Hands Goebbels Nobel-Norwegian Nobel laureate Knut Hamsun gave his Nobel Prize to Joseph Goebbels in a bid to secure an audience with Hitler and ask for Norwegian prisoners to be released. He offered the medal as a personal gesture, hoping that this sacrifice would persuade Hitler to free his countrymen. Instead, the meeting only angered Hitler.

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7506. Cast Away’s Studio-Made Island Sound-In Cast Away, none of the sound in the island scenes is real, even though the crew filmed on an actual uninhabited island. The loud ocean waves on location were so overwhelming that they drowned out every other noise. As a result, the sound team rerecorded every island and ocean sound, including Tom Hanks’ monologues, in a studio.

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7507. Caterpillar Worker Falls Into Molten-In 2022, Caterpillar Inc. faced a $145,027 fine after a worker who was removing a sample of iron fell into an 11-foot melting pot heated to more than 2,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The incident killed the employee as he dropped into the vat of molten metal. Investigators later found that the facility lacked the legally required guardrails and restraint systems around the pot.

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7508. Berry Amendment And All-American Uniforms-The Berry Amendment mandates that the U.S. military manufactures 100 percent of its clothing in America. The law forces the Department of Defense to source every stage of production domestically, from raw cotton or wool to finished fabric. It also includes zippers, buttons, and thread, all from U.S. suppliers.

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7509. Family Guy’s DVD-Led Revival-Family Guy was canceled after its original run on television. Fans kept buying the show on DVD, and the sales turned out to be unexpectedly huge. Those strong DVD numbers proved that the series still had a large, paying audience. As a result, the show was revived and brought back to television.

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7510. Eminem Stalker’s Three Home Invasions-Between 2019 and 2024, a stalker named Matthew David Hughes committed three home invasions tied to Eminem, starting when he broke into one of the rapper’s former homes near Detroit and told the new homeowner he was

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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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