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8051. Golf Courses Raise Parkinson’s Risk-In 2025, a study by Mayo Clinic found that people living within one mile of a golf course had 126% higher odds of a Parkinson's disease diagnosis than people living more than six miles away. The authors suggested that pesticides used on golf courses may play a role, especially in areas with vulnerable groundwater.

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8052. Blues Brothers Beat Theater Racism-When

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8053. Perth Orangutan Retrieved Her Son-Perth Zoo was placed under lockdown in 2017 after two orangutans momentarily broke free from their cage. A 5-year-old male orangutan fell over a barrier and landed in a garden bed outside the exhibit. His mother then dropped into the area, retrieved him, moved onto the visitor boardwalk, and voluntarily returned with him to the exhibit. Zoo staff cleared nearby visitors as standard procedure, and the whole incident ended in about 15 minutes.

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8054. French Babies Cry Rising Melodies-French newborns cry with a rising melody, while German newborns cry with a falling melody, matching the intonation patterns of their native languages. Researchers found that babies begin picking up and imitating their mother’s speech rhythm during the last trimester of pregnancy.

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8055. Laney Perdue Survived Father’s Hug-In 2021, 11-year-old Laney Perdue became the sole survivor of a Michigan plane crash after her father, Mike Perdue, wrapped her in a tight bear hug as the plane went down. When rescuers found her alive, many of her injuries were on one side of her body, while the side protected by her father had been shielded. The commuter plane had been flying to Beaver Island in northern Lake Michigan, and the crash killed the pilot and two other passengers.

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8056. Komodo Dragon Mauled Phil Bronstein-In 2001, actress Sharon Stone arranged a private visit to the Los Angeles Zoo’s Komodo dragon pen for her then-husband, investigative journalist and editor Phil Bronstein, who had always wanted to see one up close. A zookeeper invited Bronstein into the cage, where the lizard began licking his white shoes before he removed them on the keeper’s advice. When Bronstein moved to take a photo, the Komodo dragon lunged, bit his foot, and jerked back and forth as it tried to eat it. Bronstein survived and did not press charges, but Stone later said the top half of his foot was gone.

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8057. Horse Hooves Pump Blood Upward-Horses have no muscles in their lower legs, so each hoof helps push blood back upward like a “second heart.” When a horse cannot move, blood can pool in the hoof and damage tissue from the bottom up. That circulation problem is one major reason serious leg injuries can become fatal for horses.

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8058. Mexia Supermarket Became Biohazard Nightmare-In 1999, Mexia Supermarket in Fort Worth, Texas, suddenly closed, and the owners walked away with unsold food still inside. After the electricity went off, perishable food rotted for months in the Texas heat, drawing flies, cockroaches, and rats while neighbors complained about the stench. The Fort Worth Health Department declared the building a health hazard, and workers in hazmat suits spent about two weeks removing the spoiled food and sanitizing the store.

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8059. Mary Todd Lincoln Smuggled Letters-In 1875, former First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln was institutionalized at Bellevue Place in Batavia, Illinois, after her only surviving son, Robert Todd Lincoln, initiated proceedings against her. She then smuggled letters to her lawyer James B. Bradwell, his wife Myra Bradwell, and other sympathizers to fight her confinement. The pressure worked, and Mary left the sanitarium after about three months, later moving into the care of her sister in Springfield, Illinois.

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8060. Karl Schwarzschild Solved Black Holes-In 1915, German physicist Karl Schwarzschild solved Albert Einstein’s field equations while serving on the World War I Eastern Front and dying of disease. His solution described what would later be understood as a black hole, long before the term was coined. Schwarzschild wrote to Einstein,

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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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