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7711. Career Catfishing Job Bait-A recent survey found that nearly 80 percent of U.S. workers said they had experienced career catfishing during the hiring process. In this context, the term describes employers misrepresenting a job’s duties, company culture, or compensation to attract candidates. Workers often entered the process expecting one role and discovered a very different reality after interviews or hiring.

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7712. Schmidt’s Boomslang Death Notes-In 1957, a young boomslang snake, sent from a zoo for identification, accidentally bit American herpetologist Karl Patterson Schmidt. Schmidt believed the snake was unlikely to deliver a fatal dose, but the venom triggered catastrophic internal bleeding as his condition worsened through the night and into the next day. Instead of stopping, he carefully recorded his symptoms in detailed notes almost until the end. He later collapsed at his home in Homewood, Illinois.

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7713. Ram 2500 DUI Leader-A report found that Ram 2500 drivers had the highest DUI rate of any vehicle model studied in the United States. Roughly 1 in 22 Ram 2500 drivers had a prior DUI citation, which put them at more than twice the national average.

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7714. Psychiatrist Blamed Adams’s Parents-During his childhood, Canadian singer Bryan Adams clashed so often with his parents that they sent him to a psychiatrist. After evaluating him, the psychiatrist reportedly concluded that nothing was wrong with Adams himself. Instead, the doctor told the family that his parents needed psychiatric help.

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7715. Michael B. Jordan’s Name Echo-Michael B. Jordan’s Name Echo Actor Michael B. Jordan was born in Santa Ana, California, with a name that already echoed his family. His father is named Michael A. Jordan, while the actor’s full name is Michael Bakari Jordan.

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7716. Burt’s 92-Year Spite Will-When American lumber baron Wellington R. Burt died in 1919, he refused to leave his massive estate directly to his children. Instead, his will included a spite clause ordering that the money remain locked up until all of his children have died and 21 years have passed since the death of his last surviving grandchild, who was alive when he wrote it. The estate, valued at about $100 million, was finally settled in 2011.

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7717. Rocky Mountain Locust Vanished-In the 19th century, North America battled the Rocky Mountain locust, a species that could gather in staggering numbers and devastate entire regions. In 1875, one swarm became so enormous that it set the record for the largest animal concentration ever recorded. Then the species disappeared with startling speed, as by 1904, people stopped seeing the Rocky Mountain locust altogether.

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7718. Eva Braun Met Hitler 1929-In 1929, Eva Braun was a 17-year-old assistant working in Munich when she met Adolf Hitler, who was then 40 years old. Hitler had already become one of Germany’s most prominent political figures, while Braun was still a teenager. Their relationship continued for years in relative secrecy as Hitler rose to power. Braun eventually became his wife, but only in the final hours before both died in Berlin in 1945.

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7719. Frank Ocean’s Contract Escape-In August 2016, American singer Frank Ocean released Endless as a streaming-only visual album on Apple Music through Def Jam, and the project fulfilled his contract with the label. The very next day, he released Blonde as his second studio album under his own label, Boys Don’t Cry, instead of through Def Jam. That move became one of the most talked-about label maneuvers in modern music because it appeared to let him walk away with Blonde on his own terms.

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7720. Clarkson Refused Dr. Luke Credit-In 2009, American singer Kelly Clarkson scored a number-one hit with

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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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