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7871. San Francisco Owners Lit Fires-The fires that broke out in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake destroyed about 80% of the city, and ruptured gas lines were not the only cause. Some people set fire to their own damaged buildings after realizing their insurance covered fire damage but not earthquake damage.

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7872. Cavemen Were Taller Than Farmers-Contrary to the popular image of short, primitive cavemen, early modern humans in Europe 40,000 years ago averaged about 183 cm, or 6 ft, tall. After the invention of agriculture, average height dropped to about 162 cm, or 5 ft 4 in, as diets and lifestyles changed. Humans stayed shorter for thousands of years after farming spread. Humanity only recovered those prehistoric height levels in the 20th century.

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7873. Napoleon Rebuilt Malta In Days-During his six-day stay in Malta in 1798, Napoleon Bonaparte abolished slavery and feudalism, restricted church power, and created a public education system. He also set up a postal service, reformed national administration, framed a family code, and nominated 12 judges. Napoleon had just seized Malta from the Knights Hospitaller while sailing toward Egypt. His reforms came fast, but French rule on the island soon faced Maltese resistance and did not last long.

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7874. Gillette Founder Imagined Niagara Metropolis-The founder of Gillette was a utopian socialist who believed all industry should be run by a single publicly owned corporation. King C. Gillette also imagined Americans living together in a giant city called Metropolis, powered by Niagara Falls. He promoted these ideas years before his safety razor made him famous.

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7875. Nicole Delien Slept Through Holidays-A 17-year-old girl from Pennsylvania once slept for 64 days, from Thanksgiving in 2012 into January 2013. The teenager, a girl named Nicole Delien, had Kleine-Levin syndrome, also known as

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7876. Sarah Culberson Discovered Royal Blood-American actress Sarah Culberson was born in 1976 in West Virginia and was put up for adoption as an infant. As an adult, she hired a private investigator to find her birth parents and learned that her biological father was from a ruling family in Sierra Leone. That discovery made her a princess of the Mende people. Culberson later used the connection to support education and rebuilding work in Sierra Leone through the Kposowa Foundation.

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7877. Dandruff Fungus Affects Half Adults-Dandruff is a scalp skin condition that affects roughly half of adults. It is often linked to Malassezia, a fungus that thrives on sebum, the oily substance produced by the scalp. Dandruff shampoos often have antifungal ingredients in them to help with the flaking and itching. There is no permanent cure, so most people just keep it under control instead of getting rid of it for good.

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7878. Tammi Terrell’s Life Turned Tragic-American singer Tammi Terrell began experiencing migraines at 11 years old after she was assaulted. At 17, she began dating American singer James Brown, who violently abused her. At 21, she became involved with American singer David Ruffin, who purportedly attacked her with a motorcycle helmet and a hammer. At 24, Terrell died of brain cancer.

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7879. Val Kilmer Resented Top Gun-American actor Val Kilmer was not initially interested in auditioning for

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7880. Napoleon Ate Simple Soldier Meals-Napoleon Bonaparte liked simple foods like roast chicken, fried potatoes, hot soup, poached eggs, omelets, and macaroni better than the fancy meals his chefs could have made. He rarely spent more than 15 minutes at the table, treating meals more like fuel than ceremony. He also often used his hands instead of utensils during his meals.

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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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