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7881. Ennis Cosby Died Changing Tire-American comedian Bill Cosby’s only son, Ennis Cosby, was murdered during an attempted robbery while changing a flat tire in 1997. Ennis had pulled over near Interstate 405 in Los Angeles when an armed man approached him. The encounter ended with Ennis being shot and killed at age 27.

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7882. Belfast Laundromat Sniffed IRA Bombs-The British once set up a fake laundromat in Belfast to catch IRA bombmakers by testing their clothes for explosive residue. The operation ran during the Troubles, when British security forces were trying to identify people connected to Irish Republican Army bomb attacks.

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7883. Kyoko Cox Vanished For Decades-Yoko Ono’s 7-year-old daughter, Kyoko, was kidnapped by her father, American film producer Tony Cox, in 1971. Cox was Ono’s ex-husband, and he disappeared with Kyoko after a bitter custody fight. Ono would not see her daughter again for more than two decades. They finally reunited in 1994, when Kyoko was 31 years old.

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7884. Benford’s Law Exposes Fake Numbers-Benford’s Law says that in real-world data, roughly 30% of numbers start with

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7885. Brittanie Cecil Changed NHL Safety-The reason netting became mandatory at National Hockey League games is that in 2002, a 13-year-old girl named Brittanie Cecil was struck in the head by a stray puck deflected into the stands. She had been watching a Columbus Blue Jackets game against the Calgary Flames at Nationwide Arena when the puck hit her. Cecil later died from her injuries, making her death the only fan fatality in NHL history. After the tragedy, the NHL required protective netting above the glass behind both goals to reduce the risk of another fatal accident.

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7886. Bread Stales Faster In Fridge-Putting bread in the fridge makes it go stale quicker. The cold temperature speeds up starch retrogradation, the process that makes bread firm and dry. Refrigeration can slow mold growth, but it also ruins the texture faster than room-temperature storage.

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7887. Side Stitches Still Puzzle Doctors-Doctors still aren’t actually sure why people get a stitch in their side during exercise. The sharp abdominal pain, often called exercise-related transient abdominal pain, usually appears during activities like running, swimming, or horseback riding. Researchers have proposed various potential causes, including tension on abdominal ligaments, irritation of the peritoneal lining, or diminished blood flow to the diaphragm. The pain usually fades after slowing down, breathing deeply, or stopping the activity, but its exact cause remains unsettled.

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7888. Astronauts Cannot Drive After Landing-All long-duration spaceflight astronauts are not allowed to drive a car for 21 days after returning to Earth because of potential muscle atrophy and readjustment problems. After weeks or months in microgravity, their muscles, balance, and coordination can weaken or behave differently under Earth’s gravity.

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7889. Mauritanian Girls Face Marriage Fattening-Leblouh, or

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7890. American Psycho Scared Luxury Brands-The producers of the movie

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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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