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7561. Takeru Kobayashi Loses Hunger Signals-In 2024, Japanese competitive eater Takeru Kobayashi, a six-time Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest champion, announced in the Netflix documentary Hack Your Health: Secrets of Your Gut that he was retiring from competitive eating after decades of contests left him unable to feel hunger or fullness. He said he now has no appetite and sometimes goes days without eating, while his wife described his body as broken.

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7562. Marie Joseph’s Missed Pool Drowning-In June 2011, a 36-year-old woman named Marie Joseph drowned in the 12-foot-deep Vietnam Veterans Memorial Swimming Pool in Massachusetts, and her body stayed at the bottom for about two days, hidden by murky water while the busy public pool remained open. Marie Joseph had gone down the slide with a neighbor's 9-year-old son and then sunk beneath the surface; despite the boy informing lifeguards that she never resurfaced, no one found her until passersby spotted her body floating on Tuesday night.

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7563. United 232’s Sioux City Miracle-On July 19, 1989, United Airlines Flight 232, flying from Denver to Chicago and on to Philadelphia, suffered an uncontained engine failure that destroyed all three hydraulic systems and left the crew with almost no flight controls as they diverted to Sioux City in Iowa. Despite the loss of normal control and the deaths of 112 of the 296 people on board, Captain Al Haynes, his crew, and training check pilot Dennis Fitch managed a crash landing that allowed 184 people to survive, something test pilots later failed to replicate in simulators. The accident became a landmark example of crew resource management in action and helped push CRM into standard practice across commercial aviation.

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7564. When Celery Outpriced Caviar-In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, salted raw celery became the third most popular dish on New York restaurant menus and was treated as a luxury starter. Difficulties in growing and transporting crisp, unblemished stalks made celery expensive, and at times it even cost more than caviar. As cultivation and distribution improved over the years, celery lost its rarefied status and became an everyday salad and soup ingredient instead.

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7565. Bruce Pryor Finds Belanglo Victims-The backpacker murders in Belanglo State Forest in New South Wales, Australia, disturbed a local potter named Bruce Pryor in 1993. He therefore spent about nine months searching the bush for clues on his own. In October 1993, he discovered human bones in a remote part of the forest, returned with police, and helped them locate the bodies of James Gibson and Deborah Everist. Despite simply reporting what he found and evidence pointing elsewhere, detectives treated him as the primary suspect for about three months.

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7566. Odin Refuses To Abandon Goats-In October 2017, as wildfires swept through Sonoma County in California, Roland Hendel and his family evacuated their hilltop home, but their Great Pyrenees dog, Odin, refused to leave the eight goats he watched over. When the family returned days later, they found the property burned and structures destroyed, but Odin was alive, singed and limping, still guarding the entire flock of goats along with several deer that had joined them. His owners later set up a fund to help rebuild the animals’ shelter and care.

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7567. Delbert Grimsley’s $100,000 TV Surprise-In 2017, a recycling plant worker in Barrie, Ontario, dismantled a 1980s television set and discovered a metal box inside containing $100,000 in cash that 68-year-old Edmonton man Delbert had hidden there decades earlier. Grimsley had stashed the money while saving for Grimsley retirement, then forgotten about it after gifting the TV to a family friend, who eventually sent it to the Ontario recycling depot. Thanks to the plant’s investigation and police involvement, the cash was traced back to Grimsley and returned to him 30 years after he first hid it.

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7568. South Korea Pauses For Suneung-Every November in South Korea, the entire country slows down for the College Scholastic Ability Test, or Suneung, the high-stakes university entrance exam taken by hundreds of thousands of students. On test day, shops delay opening, banks and government offices shorten hours, the stock market opens late, construction noise stops near test sites, military training pauses, and planes are grounded or rerouted during the listening section to keep things quiet. Police even offer motorcycle escorts for late students.

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7569. Mehmed III Ends Ottoman Fratricide-Under Ottoman law, sultans could legally execute their brothers to prevent succession disputes, a practice that reached a brutal climax in 1595 when Sultan Mehmed III reportedly had 19 of his brothers killed in a single night, the youngest being only 11. The scale of that massacre horrified contemporaries and helped push the dynasty to abandon routine fratricide. Afterward, the Ottomans shifted to confining male relatives in the imperial palace’s harem apartments, effectively imprisoning potential heirs for life instead of executing them.

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7570. McDonald’s $300 Million Arch Deluxe-In the mid-1990s, McDonald's launched the Arch Deluxe, a

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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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