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8071. Petain Met De Gaulle Silently-During the Battle of France in 1940, French marshal Philippe Petain found himself dining in the same Bordeaux restaurant as French officer Charles de Gaulle, just one month before Petain became leader of the Vichy regime. The meeting carried weight because de Gaulle had once served under Petain, who had been his early military mentor, but by then they had split over France’s future. Petain supported seeking an armistice after Germany’s invasion, while de Gaulle wanted France to continue the fight from abroad. While in the restaurant, De Gaulle came over and shook Petain’s hand in silence, and the two men never met again.

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8072. Bhutan Hid Founder’s Death Secret-In 1651, Tibetan Buddhist lama Ngawang Namgyal, the first unifier of Bhutan, died after building the country into a unified state. To prevent a dynastic struggle and a return to warlord rule, the authorities hid his death and kept issuing orders in his name. From 1651 to 1705, they claimed he had entered an extended silent retreat, turning 54 years of political cover-up into a religious explanation.

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8073. Joy Survived Romanov Family Execution-A dog named Joy was the only member of Nicholas II’s household to survive the Romanov family’s execution in 1918. The Bolsheviks killed the former Tsar, his wife, their five children, four retainers, and two other dogs, but spared Joy because he did not bark. Joy was later rescued and taken to England, where he lived out the rest of his life.

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8074. Newton Wrote Mostly Religious Papers-Only a fraction of British physicist and mathematician Isaac Newton’s surviving written output focused on science and math. Of the roughly 10 million words he left behind, about half dealt with religion, about 1 million words covered alchemy, and roughly 3 million words focused on science and math. The papers showed that the man remembered for gravity and calculus spent much of his private writing on biblical interpretation, prophecy, and alchemical studies.

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8075. White Blood Cells Cast DNA-Some white blood cells fight infections by bursting themselves open and casting their own DNA like a net. These traps, called neutrophil extracellular traps, can catch and help kill invading pathogens. The cell dies in the process, turning its own genetic material into a last-ditch weapon.

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8076. Metacomet’s Head Haunted Plymouth-The son of the man who welcomed the Puritans and helped feed them when they were starving later had his head cut off and displayed on a spike for about 20 years in Plymouth. That man was Metacomet, also known as King Philip, the son of Wampanoag leader Massasoit. After Metacomet led Native resistance during King Philip’s War, colonial forces killed him in 1676, dismembered his body, and displayed his head near the place remembered for the first Thanksgiving.

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8077. Jimmy Swaggart Changed Scandal Defense-Popular televangelist Jimmy Swaggart responded to his first prostitution scandal with a tearful

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8078. Solomon Northup Couldn’t Testify-In 1841, free Black New York man Solomon Northup was kidnapped during a trip to Washington, DC, and sold into slavery in Louisiana. After he proved his freedom 12 years later, authorities prosecuted one of his kidnappers. The case collapsed because DC law did not allow Northup, a Black man, to testify against a white man, and the kidnapper was acquitted.

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8079. Park Sung-Hyun Lost Eleven Days-After a shopping mall in South Korea collapsed in June 1995, rescuers found the last survivor buried in the rubble after 16 days. She was a 19-year-old woman named Park Sung-Hyun, who had survived alone beneath the wreckage. When rescuers pulled her out, she thought she had only been trapped for five days.

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8080. Rupert Murdoch Was Red Rupert-Australian-born media businessman Rupert Murdoch had the university nickname

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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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