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7971. Jennie Wade Died Baking Bread-In 1863, a woman named Jennie Wade became the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg. She was baking bread when a stray bullet passed through a door and struck her. In 1882, the U.S. Senate granted her mother a pension, citing that Wade had died serving the Union cause by baking bread for soldiers.

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7972. Silent Parade Shook Fifth Avenue-In 1917, more than 10,000 African Americans marched in silence down New York City's Fifth Avenue to protest lynching and anti-Black violence. The NAACP organized the Silent Parade after deadly racial violence, including the East St. Louis riots. The march became one of the first major mass civil rights protests in U.S. history, though not usually receiving the same level of attention as the later Civil Rights protests.

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7973. Calaveras Skull Fooled Josiah Whitney-In 1866, California miners planted a skull to prank American geologist Josiah Whitney, whom they disliked. Whitney announced the Calaveras Skull as proof that humans had lived in North America two million years earlier. He refused to accept it as a hoax, even after the first fluorine analysis ever performed on human bone showed the skull came from a recent person.

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7974. Tiwai Smelter Drains New Zealand-New Zealand's Tiwai Point Aluminium Smelter uses about 13 percent of the country's electricity supply. The smelter needs enormous amounts of power to turn alumina into aluminum at an industrial scale.

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7975. Hanshan Wrote Sutra In Blood-In 1577, Chinese Buddhist monk Hanshan Deqing decided to copy the entire Avatamsaka Sutra, one of the longest Buddhist sutras, using his own blood. When the Empress heard about the project, she gave him golden pages to write on. Hanshan spent two years completing the massive devotional work.

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7976. Greg Oden Draft Class Outlasted Him-Greg Oden was tabbed by the Portland Trail Blazers with the No. 1 pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, but injuries derailed his NBA career to just three seasons. The four players drafted directly after him were Kevin Durant, Al Horford, Mike Conley, and Jeff Green. Nineteen years later, those four players were still active, turning Oden's draft-night promise into one of the NBA's strangest what-ifs.

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7977. North Korea Exports Fake Hair-Trade data shows that fake hair is North Korea’s biggest export, worth around $188 million and making up 46.5% of the country’s official exports. The category includes products such as wigs, false beards, eyebrows, eyelashes, and other artificial hair goods.

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7978. Daylyt Took Boos Literally Onstage-In 2014, American battle rapper Daylyt was removed from the stage during a rap battle after the crowd started booing him. He warned the audience,

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7979. Toronto Film Debris Exposed Records-In 2005, a film crew in downtown Toronto shot a movie scene about 9/11 and blew what they thought was scrap paper into the air to mimic debris falling from the towers. After the papers scattered through the area, the crew realized they had accidentally used real medical records. They then had to try to retrieve the documents to avoid a privacy breach.

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7980. Mewing Became A Jawline Myth-Mewing is the practice of pressing the tongue against the roof of the mouth in the hope of improving facial and jaw structure. The idea spread widely online, especially among people looking for a sharper jawline without surgery. However, there is no solid scientific evidence that mewing can reshape an adult face or produce the dramatic results its supporters claim.

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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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