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7911. Foie Gras-It is possible to have foie gras without force-feeding geese. One farm in Spain farm harvests wild geese that show up to eat fallen acorns and olives once a year. The high-fat content in nuts allows the wild geese to develop enlarged livers.

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7912. Bisons & Native Tribe Heights-Before the bison were slaughtered in 1800s, Native Americans living in the plains were among the world’s tallest humans in the world. Just a generation later, the height of Native American tribes who depended on bison, dropped by over an inch.

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7913. Mushroom Clouds Formation-Mushroom clouds can be caused by any powerful explosion, not just nuclear, and there are depictions of them in art since the 1700s.

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7914. Nelson Mandela Place-In 1984, the city of Glasgow changed the name of St George's Place to Nelson Mandela Place. This meant the South African consulate located there had to release official communication with an address bearing the name of South Africa's most high-profile political prisoner.

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7915. Theatre Lifespan-During the Victorian period, because of fires, the average lifespan of a theater was under 20 years.

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7916. Nancy Bentley-A 6-year-old girl named Nancy Bentley was the first and youngest female ever to be enlisted in the Australian Navy. In 1920, the captain of the HMAS Sydney enlisted Nancy with the rank of Ship's Mascot so that the Navy could treat her for a poisonous snake bite. She was returned to her family and discharged 8 days later.

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7917. Gillette During WW2-During World War 2, Gillette assisted the U.S. Army in military intelligence by producing copies of German razor blades for secret agents venturing behind German lines. They also manufactured razors that concealed money and escape maps in their handles and magnetic double-edge blades that were used as a compass.

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7918. Operation Meetinghouse-Operation Meetinghouse was the single deadliest bombing raid in human history, even more, destructive than the atomic bombing of Hiroshima or Nagasaki. On 10 March 1945, United States bombers dropped incendiaries on Tokyo. It killed more than 100,000 people and destroyed 267,171 buildings.

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7919. Algerian Sheep Fighting-Though illegal, sheep fighting is a popular sport in Algeria. No gambling is involved, but the loser is sentenced to slaughter while the winner has its value increased. They are even given names that inspire fear, like Hitler, Ebola, or Lawyer.

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7920. Elton's Pride & Predator-In 2009, Elton John's production company was developing a film adaptation of Pride & Prejudice that would feature the Predator. It was going to be called Pride & Predator.

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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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