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8001. US Scores Erased Two Decades-US student math and reading scores have dropped so sharply that they erased nearly two decades of progress. In 2022–23, average math scores for 13-year-olds fell to levels not seen since the 1990s, while reading scores for high school seniors later hit their lowest point since NAEP testing began in 1992. The Nation’s Report Card also showed that 13-year-olds lost ground in both math and reading compared with 2020, making the decline part of a broader national slide.

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8002. Chinese Mushroom Sparks Tiny Hallucinations-If undercooked, a popular mushroom in China can cause

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8003. Casey Kasem Quit Over Burgers-American voice actor Casey Kasem, the original voice of Shaggy Rogers in

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8004. Steven Ford’s White House Bill-Gerald Ford’s teenage son Steven Ford once sneaked about 20 friends into the White House for a party and ordered food and drinks, assuming everything was free. The next day, his father called him into the Oval Office and showed him the bill. Steven then learned that the food and drinks came out of the president’s own salary, not some endless White House party fund.

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8005. Empress Ma’s Burning Cake Sacrifice-Empress Ma, born in 1332, came from a poor background long before she became the first empress of China’s Ming dynasty. During a famine, she secretly stole hot cakes to feed her husband, Zhu Yuanzhang, and hid them against her chest. The cakes burned her, but she still brought them to him, and Zhu later rose from rebel commander to the Hongwu Emperor. After he founded the Ming dynasty in 1368, he made Ma his empress and remained deeply devoted to her even from the throne.

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8006. Orphaned Negatives Lost Their Positives-Orphaned negatives are words like

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8007. Mona Lisa Margin Note Discovery-The Mona Lisa’s long-debated identity and creation date gained a major confirmation in 2005, when a German researcher found a verified handwritten note in the margin of a book. The note stated that Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci was painting a portrait of Lisa del Giocondo in 1503. That small marginal clue helped support the long-standing idea that the world’s most famous portrait showed Lisa, the wife of Florentine merchant Francesco del Giocondo.

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8008. Groupon’s Google Deal Disaster-Groupon once rejected Google’s $6 billion acquisition offer and chose to go public instead. In 2011, the company debuted with a market cap of about $17.8 billion, turning the daily-deals business into one of the internet’s hottest new bets. But the excitement did not last, and by 2023 Groupon had lost more than 99% of its value since its IPO.

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8009. Nzou Elephant Ruled Buffalo Herd-Nzou, a female elephant at Zimbabwe's Imire reserve, shuns other elephants and has led a buffalo herd for decades. She arrived at Imire in the 1970s after people found her orphaned in Zimbabwe's Lowveld, and caretakers placed her with buffalo when she was still young. Over more than 40 years in charge, she killed 14 young male buffalo that challenged her leadership. After several failed attempts to return her to an elephant herd, conservancy managers accepted that her place was with the buffalo.

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8010. Margot Robbie’s Audition Slap-Margot Robbie convinced Martin Scorsese to cast her in

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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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