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7631. Mars’ Tharsis Volcanoes Broke Crust-On Mars, the Tharsis region hosts some of the largest volcanoes in the Solar System, including three massive shield volcanoes that formed in the same area. Because Mars lacks plate tectonics, the crust never moved over the volcanic hotspot the way Earth’s plates do. As a result, the volcanoes kept erupting in the same location for billions of years and piled up enormous layers of lava. The buildup became so massive that the weight eventually caused the Martian crust in the region to structurally deform and partially fail.

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7632. Television’s Budget-Saving Bottle Episodes-In episodic television, producers sometimes create special episodes known as

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7633. Black Sabbath Terrified Early Audiences-In 1970, early audiences who heard

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7634. Baron von Steuben’s Adopted Heirs-Prussian officer Baron Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben, who trained the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, lived as a lifelong bachelor. He eventually left all his property to three young men he had formally adopted. When he traveled to America to help the revolutionaries, he was accompanied by his young secretary and his beloved dog, which he reportedly took with him everywhere.

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7635. Ed Annunziata Made Ecco Hard-When developing the 1992 video game Ecco the Dolphin for Sega Genesis, American game designer Ed Annunziata was worried that kids would finish the game in a single weekend. Because of that concern, he deliberately made some of the levels extremely difficult. Annunziata later admitted the decision bluntly, saying,

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7636. Emily the Cat’s Atlantic Voyage-In 2005, a cat named Emily went missing from the home of Scott and Pam Napolitano in Wisconsin. The cat had wandered into a container filled with paper bales at a nearby recycling plant, which was trucked to Chicago and then shipped across the Atlantic to Europe. Weeks later, workers opened the container at a paper plant in France and discovered the dehydrated but alive stowaway. After veterinary care, Emily was flown back to Wisconsin and reunited with her owners.

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7637. Louis XIV Freed Henry Winstanley-In 1697, English engineer Henry Winstanley was captured by a French privateer while he was constructing the first Eddystone Lighthouse off the coast of England. When the news reached King Louis XIV of France, he ordered Winstanley released, declaring,

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7638. Rouen Civilians Trapped Between Armies-During the English Siege of Rouen from 1418 to 1419, French authorities expelled about 12,000 impoverished residents from the city to conserve food during the blockade. When the civilians approached the English lines, King Henry V of England refused to allow them to pass through. The displaced people became trapped in the narrow space between the city walls and the English army. With neither side willing to accept them, many of the civilians eventually starved.

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7639. Harvard Experiments Show Dog Empathy-In experiments at Harvard’s Canine Brains Lab, researchers have observed that some dogs show spontaneous empathy toward humans. In one test, a person pretended to hit their thumb with a hammer and cried out in pain. Some dogs responded by rushing over, licking the person’s face, or trying to intervene. In a few cases, dogs even attempted to take the hammer away, as if trying to stop the source of the injury.

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7640. George Harrison Survived 40 Stabbings-On December 30, 1999, former Beatles George Harrison and his wife, Olivia, were attacked in their home in England. An intruder named Michael Abram broke into the house and stabbed Harrison multiple times during the struggle. Harrison suffered about 40 stab wounds, with one blade narrowly missing his heart. Olivia Harrison fought back with a fireplace poker and lamp, helping subdue the attacker until police arrived. Harrison survived after emergency surgery, while Abram was later found not guilty by reason of insanity and committed to a psychiatric hospital.

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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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