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7511. J. Cole’s Honor Roll Records-Rapper J. Cole graduated high school with a 4.2 GPA and went on to graduate college magna cum laude in 2007 with a 3.8 GPA.

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7512. Michael Fay’s Singapore Caning Sentence-In 1994, American teenager Michael Fay pleaded guilty in Singapore to stealing road signs and vandalizing cars. A Singapore court sentenced him to six strokes of the cane as part of his punishment. The sentence sparked media outrage and diplomatic protests in the United States, and authorities reduced his caning to four strokes but carried out the punishment.

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7513. Charles Barkley Flies In Heckler-In 1993, Washington Wizards fan and notorious courtside heckler Robin Ficker had such a reputation that Charles Barkley decided to use him as a weapon in the NBA Finals. Barkley flew Ficker to Phoenix so he could sit directly behind the Chicago Bulls bench during the series. Ficker redirected his usual taunts from Wizards opponents to Michael Jordan and his teammates.

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7514. Whitney And Badwater’s Closeness Explained-In the contiguous United States, the highest and lowest points sit less than 100 miles apart in eastern California. Badwater Basin in Death Valley lies below sea level at the bottom end of this extreme pair. Mount Whitney, the highest point in the lower 48 states, rises not far away in the Sierra Nevada.

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7515. Why Black Boxes Are Orange-On commercial airplanes, flight recorders known as black boxes are legally required to be painted bright orange, not black. Aviation regulators mandate this high-visibility color so investigators can spot the devices quickly in wreckage.

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7516. French Bring Curry To Vietnam-Curry reached Vietnam when French colonizers brought it over from Pondicherry in India during their overlapping colonial rule. They introduced the dish into Vietnamese cooking, where local cooks adapted it to suit regional tastes. Vietnamese versions began to feature coconut milk and lemongrass, giving the sauce a richer texture and a fragrant, citrusy aroma.

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7517. Las Vegas Sphere’s GPU Powerhouse-The Las Vegas Sphere is powered by 150 NVIDIA RTX A6000 GPUs that together provide 7.2 TB (7,200 GB) of GDDR6 video memory.

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7518. Tarantino Reclaims Hollywood Film Rights-Sony Pictures won the right to distribute Quentin Tarantino’s 2019 film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood over Warner Bros. by accepting a rare ownership condition. As part of the deal, Sony agreed that the full ownership of the film’s underlying copyright would revert back to Tarantino after 30 years.

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7519. Why Snow Makes Streets Whisper-The

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7520. Woman Injects Crushed Black Widow-In 1996, a 37-year-old woman in California survived after she crushed a whole black widow spider, mixed it with 10 mL of distilled water, and injected the suspension intravenously. She had a history of IV heroin use and told doctors she did it in an attempt to get high. About an hour after the injection, she arrived at the emergency department with severe, generalized muscle pain and cramping, especially in her abdomen, thighs, and back, along with a headache and intense anxiety.

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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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