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7521. AOL Dial-Up Runs Up Fortune-In 2015, 83-year-old Ron Dorff opened his AT&T landline bill in California and saw a charge of $8,596.57, followed by a second bill for $15,687.64. A technician eventually discovered that his modem had been dialing a long-distance number over and over to connect to AOL dial-up service. After Dorff contacted the Los Angeles Times about the problem, AT&T agreed to waive the charges.

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7522. Telephone Wire Decapitates Truck Passenger-In 2004, a Georgia man named Francis Daniel Brohm stuck his head out of a pickup truck window when the driver swerved, and a telephone pole wire decapitated him. The sudden impact killed Brohm instantly and left his body inside the vehicle. John Kemper Hutcherson, who drove the car, continued home, parked, and went inside to sleep with his friend’s corpse still in the truck. A neighbor discovered the body the next morning and alerted authorities.

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7523. Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria And ADHD-Extreme sensitivity to the fear of rejection or criticism from others characterizes Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria. People who experience it often react very strongly, emotionally or even physically, when they think someone has dismissed or disapproved of them. Clinicians commonly connect RSD with ADHD, where the brain already struggles with regulating emotions.

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7524. Jennifer Lopez Serenades Turkmenistan Dictator-In 2013, Jennifer Lopez became the first major Western star to perform in Turkmenistan, one of the most repressive countries in the world. She traveled there to sing

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7525. Wu-Tang’s Two-Million Dollar Album-Wu-Tang Clan created only one copy of their seventh studio album,

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7526. AK-47 Samples Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot-Scientists studying Chernobyl’s Elephant’s Foot, a dense mass of corium and other materials beneath Reactor 4, found it too hard and radioactive to sample with normal drills. To collect material, they used an AK-47 loaded with armor-piercing rounds and shot at the surface to chip off fragments.

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7527. Are We Inside Cosmic Void-Astronomers suggest that Earth and the Milky Way may sit inside a vast, under-dense cosmic void about 1 billion light-years wide. In this region, there is less matter than average, so galaxies and gas spread out more thinly through space. That unusual environment can change how light and galaxies move around us. As a result, the void may skew local measurements of the universe's expansion rate and help explain why some observations do not agree.

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7528. Do Farts Contaminate Operating Theatres-Dr. Karl Kruszelnicki designed an experiment after a nurse asked whether her farts could contaminate an operating theater. He had a subject pass gas onto Petri dishes once with his pants down and once while fully clothed. When the subject’s pants were down, bacteria sprouted on the dishes, showing that the gas carried microbes. When he was fully clothed, no bacteria grew, suggesting that clothing acts as a filter.

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7529. Blood Petitions For Assassins’ Leniency-In 1932, 11 Japanese naval officers assassinated the prime minister of Japan. During their trial, the court received 110,000 petitions for leniency, many of them signed or written entirely in blood. Nine youths even asked to be tried in the officers’ place and sent the court their severed pinky fingers to prove their sincerity.

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7530. Katy Perry Outrates Super Bowl-In 2015, Katy Perry headlined the halftime show at Super Bowl XLIX, where the Seattle Seahawks faced the New England Patriots. Her performance attracted a television audience that exceeded the viewership for the general game broadcast itself.

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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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