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7861. Fake Birthday Boy Got Drafted-In 1977, two American brothers signed up a fictitious boy for an ice cream chain’s birthday club so they could get extra free sundaes. The fake name stayed on the chain’s mailing list like a real customer record. In 1984, the family received a Selective Service reminder instructing the fictitious boy to register for the draft. The mistake exposed that the government had obtained names from the chain’s mailing list through a broker, even as later the chain claimed it had not permitted that use.

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7862. Kitum Cave Hid Marburg Virus-There is a cave in Kenya that has been linked to a virus with an 88% mortality rate, and it is currently open to the public. Kitum Cave, inside Mount Elgon, became infamous after two visitors later died from Marburg virus disease in 1980 and 1987. Scientists later investigated the cave because Marburg virus is associated with Egyptian fruit bats, which can carry it without looking sick. The cave was closed for a short time after the deaths, but it later reopened to tourists with guides.

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7863. Human Brains Mature At Thirty-Two-Humans neurologically enter adulthood at the age of 32 on average, according to research described by the University of Cambridge. The study divided human brain development into five major phases, with adulthood beginning much later than the legal age of 18. Before that point, the brain remains in a prolonged adolescent phase.

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7864. Moon Dust Gave Astronauts Hayfever-All 12 astronauts who stepped on the Moon experienced

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7865. Hal Dreamed Breaking Bad’s Ending-There is an alternate ending of the

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7866. Dogs Break Up Owner Rivalries-Dogs authentically get jealous and try to break up the connection between their owner and another dog. In a UC San Diego study, researchers watched dogs react while their owners ignored them and showed affection to a realistic stuffed dog. Many dogs snapped, pushed, or tried to get between their owner and the fake rival.

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7867. Metallica Delivered Napster’s User List-In 2000, American heavy metal band Metallica hired a consulting firm to monitor Napster for people illegally sharing their music. The firm generated a 60,000-page list that identified 335,435 users, which Metallica then delivered to Napster's office with a demand for their ban. The move came during

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7868. Stone Age Dominated Human History-The Stone Age encompasses about 99% of human history. It began millions of years ago and lasted until different groups gradually adopted metalworking, farming, and settled life. That means nearly everything people think of as

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7869. Guam Mistook War For Salute-When the U.S. attacked Guam in 1898, the Spanish thought the cannon fire was a salute. Spanish officers sailed out to apologize for not firing back because they had no gunpowder, only to learn that the shots came from an American warship during the Spanish-American War. Guam had received little contact from Spain and did not yet know that war had broken out. The misunderstanding ended quickly as Spain surrendered Guam to the United States without a battle.

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7870. Sleeping Neurons Flush Brain Waste-When humans sleep, certain brain signals help neurons shrink so cerebrospinal fluid can wash away waste. Washington University School of Medicine researchers found that neurons help drive this nighttime cleaning system by sending rhythmic electrical signals during sleep. Those waves move fluid through brain tissue and push out metabolic waste that builds up during waking hours. The process works most strongly during deep sleep.

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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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