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7571. Rachael Gunn Becomes Spraygun Onstage-In December 2024 in Sydney, Australian Olympic breakdancer Rachael Gunn had her lawyers send letters to comedian Steph Broadbridge’s planned show Raygun: The Musical, arguing that Gunn’s stage name and her “kangaroo” dance move were protected intellectual property. Broadbridge cancelled the show just days before opening night, then rewrote it as Breaking: The Musical, starring a 36-year-old Olympic breaker named Sprachel Gunn, a university lecturer whose stage name is “Spraygun.” The legal fight ended up boosting interest, and the reworked musical went on to sold-out runs at major comedy festivals and a regional tour.

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7572. Portugal Bans After-Hours Boss Calls-In November 2021, Portugal amended its labor laws so employers cannot call, text, or email workers outside of official working hours, except in emergencies. The rules require companies to respect employees’ privacy, rest, and family time and treat unjustified contact as a serious offense.

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7573. Kenshin Sends Salt To Shingen-During Japan’s Sengoku period, the Echigo warlord Uesugi Kenshin learned that his rival Takeda Shingen had suffered a salt embargo when the Hōjō clan cut off Shingen’s supplies. Instead of exploiting the shortage, Kenshin ordered salt shipped from his own coastal domains to Takeda territory. He reportedly declared, “I do not fight with salt, but with the sword.”

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7574. Hamill Nixes Weird Al Segment-In the late 1990s, during development of The Weird Al Show on CBS, producers planned a recurring segment where “Weird Al” Yankovic would appear inside scenes from the original Star Wars trilogy using a green screen. George Lucas and Alec Guinness reportedly approved the use of their footage, but Mark Hamill refused permission for any clips featuring him as Luke Skywalker. Without Hamill’s consent, the show scrapped the entire parody concept, and the sketches were never produced.

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7575. Gardening: Planting Phrases For Codebreaking-In cryptography, “gardening” means deliberately prompting an enemy to send messages that contain a specific, known piece of text so codebreakers can use that string to help decrypt the rest. Intelligence agencies might do this by shaping events or communications so the target feels compelled to respond in a predictable way that includes the chosen phrase or format. Once the enemy transmits that known text, cryptanalysts use it as a foothold to break the cipher more easily.

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7576. Superbad Scripted, This Is Improvised-Writers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg, who co-wrote both Superbad (2007) and This Is the End (2013), took very different approaches to dialogue in the two films. About 95% of Superbad's lines came straight from the script, locking in the jokes on the page. In contrast, the actors in This Is the End improvised roughly 85% of the dialogue on set, riffing on only loosely scripted situations.

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7577. Most People Quit New Music-Streaming data suggests that many listeners stop actively seeking out new music in their early 30s. A 2015 study of Spotify users’ listening habits found that people, on average, stop listening to new music at age 33, while a 2018 report by Deezer put that “musical paralysis” point at around age 30. Together, the two studies suggest that by their early 30s most people stick more to familiar favorites than to fresh releases.

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7578. Lou Reed’s Perfect Day Explained-Lou Reed released the song

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7579. Harvard Dogs Comfort Crying Strangers-In recent Harvard experiments, researchers observed family dogs responding to humans who pretended to cry or be in pain in a lab setting. Many of the dogs approached the distressed person, made eye contact, and tried to nuzzle or physically engage with them, even when the crying human was a stranger. The team interpreted these reactions as spontaneous empathy, suggesting that some dogs naturally try to “help” when they think a human is suffering.

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7580. The End Of History Illusion-Psychologists call it the end of history illusion when people recognize how much their personality, values, and tastes have changed in the past but assume they will change very little in the future. In a 2013 paper in the journal Science, researchers showed this bias across more than 19,000 people aged 18 to 68 by comparing how much older adults reported changing over the last decade with how much younger adults predicted they would change in the next one.

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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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