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7901. Gifted Students Still Quit School-Between 18% and 25% of intellectually gifted students in the U.S., meaning students with an IQ of at least 130, fail to graduate from high school. Boredom, poor academic fit, social pressure, or lack of support can still push gifted students out of the system.

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7902. Prince Collaboration Died Over Smoking-A potential collaboration between American musician Prince and the virtual band Gorillaz never happened because Damon Albarn was not allowed to smoke in Prince’s studio. The missed session would have joined Prince with Albarn’s animated music project, best known for mixing rock, hip-hop, and electronic sounds. Instead, one no-smoking rule killed a collaboration before it could begin.

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7903. Ariel’s Red Hair Beat Blonde-Disney executives wanted Ariel in

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7904. Copper Scroll Listed Hidden Treasure-Some of the Dead Sea Scrolls are not religious texts but a metal treasure list describing where huge amounts of gold and silver were supposedly hidden. The Copper Scroll, discovered near Qumran in 1952, was written on thin sheets of copper rather than parchment or papyrus. The treasure has never been found, which makes the scroll one of the strangest and most frustrating documents from the Dead Sea Scrolls.

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7905. Don Bolles Investigation Outlived Murder-After investigative reporter Don Bolles was killed by a car bomb in 1976, 38 journalists from competing news organizations teamed up to finish his investigation. Bolles, a reporter for

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7906. Fidel Castro Wore Double Rolexes-Cuban leader Fidel Castro used to wear two Rolex watches on the same wrist. The unusual habit reportedly helped him track two time zones at once, one for Cuba and one for another location during travel or international dealings.

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7907. Baby Backwash Changes Breast Milk-Babies backwash when they are breastfeeding, sending a small amount of saliva back into the mother’s nipple during feeding. Researchers have suggested that this backflow can help the mother’s body detect microbes or immune signals from the baby. In response, the mother’s milk may adjust by producing immune-related components that better match what the baby needs.

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7908. Lionel Messi’s Tax Fraud Conviction-Argentine footballer Lionel Messi was found guilty of defrauding Spain of €4.1 million between 2007 and 2009. Spanish prosecutors said Messi and his father, Jorge Messi, used tax havens to hide income from image rights. In 2016, a court handed Messi a 21-month prison sentence, though he did not serve time because Spanish law allowed first-time offenders with sentences under two years to avoid jail. In 2017, Spain’s Supreme Court upheld the conviction, and Messi’s sentence was later replaced with a fine.

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7909. Nicholas Comper’s Firework Joke Killed-In June 1939, British aircraft designer Nicholas Comper went outside in Hythe, Kent, to light fireworks, and when a passerby asked what he was doing, he joked that he was an IRA man blowing up the town hall. The passerby took the remark seriously and knocked him down. Comper hit his head on the curb and suffered a cerebral hemorrhage. He later died in the hospital.

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7910. Assassins Recorded Alamut Kill Lists-Although the original Order of Assassins usually used assassination as a means of political survival, they also killed for pay. The Nizari Ismaili order operated from strongholds such as Alamut Castle in Persia and used agents who could spend years undercover before carrying out an execution. They recorded their assassinations in a roll of honor kept at Alamut.

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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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