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7621. Supermarket Chicken Injected With Brine-Chicken sold in many supermarkets is often

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7622. Captain Kohei Asoh’s Honest Defense-In 1968, Japan Airlines Captain Kohei Asoh accidentally landed his Douglas DC-8 jet in the shallow waters of San Francisco Bay while attempting to reach San Francisco International Airport. During the investigation, Asoh openly admitted responsibility and told the U.S. authorities,

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7623. C.S. Lewis Honored Moore Pact-During World War I, British writer C. S. Lewis served in the British Army and formed a close friendship with a fellow soldier named Edward

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7624. Why Persian “Immortals” Never Declined-In the 5th century BCE, the Achaemenid Empire maintained an elite infantry unit known as the Persian

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7625. Alaska’s Mandatory Bear Kill Evidence-In Alaska, a person who shoots a bear in self-defense outside the official hunting season must still follow strict state rules. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game requires the shooter to salvage the entire hide with the claws attached and the skull of the animal. They must then present these parts to state authorities and file a Defense of Life or Property report. Failing to do so is treated as a criminal offense under Alaska wildlife law.

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7626. Massachusetts Gambling Hotline Tech Confusion-In 2023, officials reviewing calls to the Massachusetts Problem Gambling Helpline discovered that more than one-third of callers were not seeking help for addiction at all. Many people contacted the hotline because they were having technical problems with their online betting apps. These callers mistakenly believed the state helpline could provide customer support or IT assistance for the apps.

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7627. Lydia Abate’s Funeral Tracking Wardrobe-For years, a woman named Lydia Abate has practiced what she calls

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7628. Lafayette Became General at Nineteen-During the American Revolutionary War, Marquis de Lafayette traveled from France to support the American cause in 1777 when he was just 19 years old. Despite his youth and limited military experience, the Continental Congress appointed him a major general in the Continental Army. In France, Lafayette had never held a rank higher than captain, and even that position he had received as a ceremonial wedding gift.

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7629. Boötes Void: Universe’s Loneliest Region-The Boötes Void is an enormous, nearly empty region of space about 330 million light-years in diameter located in the direction of the Boötes constellation. Astronomers discovered the vast cosmic void in 1981 while mapping the large-scale structure of the universe. The region has significantly fewer galaxies than typical areas of space. Scientists note that if the Milky Way had been located at its center, humanity might not have discovered other galaxies until the 1960s.

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7630. Facebook’s Secret 2012 Mood Experiment-In 2012, Facebook researchers quietly manipulated the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users as part of a study on emotional contagion. The experiment altered the balance of positive and negative posts shown to users to see whether it influenced the tone of their own updates. Participants were not informed about the experiment while it was happening. When the study became public in 2014, critics argued that Facebook had effectively treated its users as unwitting test subjects.

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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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