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8011. Penn Jillette’s Hot Tub Patent-American magician Penn Jillette and American singer Debbie Harry were once in a hot tub when Harry suggested that the water jets should be angled for a woman’s pleasure. The idea stuck with Jillette, and he later filed a patent for a device called a

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8012. China’s Trillion-Cigarette Tobacco Monopoly-China consumes about 46% of the world’s cigarettes, with more than 2.4 trillion sold there every year. No country burns through more cigarettes, and the scale comes partly from China Tobacco, a state-run monopoly that dominates the country’s cigarette market. The company has also resisted stronger tobacco controls for decades.

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8013. Ostriches Preferred Humans Over Mates-Ostrich farms can struggle to get male ostriches to breed because some males find their human caretakers more attractive than female ostriches. Researchers studying farmed ostriches found that the birds often directed courtship displays toward humans instead of potential mates.

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8014. Comus Krewe Refused Integration Rules-The Mistick Krewe of Comus, the oldest active organization affiliated with New Orleans Mardi Gras, has not marched in the parade since 1991 because it refused to let non-white people join. That year, New Orleans passed an ordinance requiring Carnival organizations to certify that they did not discriminate by race, religion, gender, disability, or sexual orientation. Comus chose to withdraw from public parading instead of complying, but it continued holding its private ball.

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8015. San Bernardino Burglars Returned Computers-In August 2013, thieves broke into a San Bernardino nonprofit support group for victims and stole several computer towers and monitors. The organization, Sexual Assault Services, helped survivors of sexual violence, which made the burglary especially cruel. The next day, the thieves returned the stolen equipment with an apology note encouraging the group to keep making a difference in people’s lives.

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8016. Harry Truman Worked His Library-American president Harry S. Truman stayed heavily involved with his presidential library after it opened in Independence, Missouri, in 1957. He worked there 5 or 6 days a week, personally trained staff, and turned visits from schoolchildren into impromptu press conferences. He even answered the telephone and gave directions, treating the library less like a monument and more like a working extension of his public life.

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8017. Maria Antonia’s Habsburg Inbreeding Peak-Maria Antonia of Austria, born in 1669 into the House of Habsburg, had one of the dynasty’s most extreme family trees. Her inbreeding coefficient reached 0.3053, which was higher than the usual coefficient for a child born to a brother and sister or to a parent and their own child. She became the only surviving child of Holy Roman Emperor Leopold I and Margaret Theresa of Spain, but she died in 1692 at just 23 years old.

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8018. Thailand Defied Abbott Over Kaletra-In 2007, Thailand legally issued a compulsory license to make cheaper generic versions of Abbott’s HIV drug Kaletra. Abbott responded by withdrawing 7 medicines that it had planned to launch in Thailand, but Thailand held firm, and the move helped expand HIV treatment coverage to hundreds of thousands more patients.

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8019. Spirit Airlines Forced Cheaper Fares-The

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8020. Marie Tharp Mapped Seafloor Rift-In the 1950s, American geologist and oceanographic cartographer Marie Tharp identified a giant rift valley running down the Atlantic seafloor. The discovery supported the then-controversial theory of continental drift, but her male colleague dismissed her interpretation as

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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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