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8091. Lithium Batteries Burn On Planes-U.S. passenger planes now see about 1 to 2 lithium battery fires per week. The fires usually involve rechargeable devices or spare batteries that overheat during flights.

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8092. Charlie Day’s Rats Won Pacific-Guillermo del Toro cast Charlie Day in

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8093. Germany’s War Goals Grew Quickly-The German Empire entered World War I without a clear end goal because it initially treated the conflict as a defensive war. Early military success on the Western Front changed that calculation. German leaders then developed wider annexationist ambitions and outlined them in the Septemberprogramm.

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8094. Kumul Khanate Outlived Mongol Empire-The last remnant of the Mongol Empire, ruled by a direct descendant of Genghis Khan, lasted until 1930. It was the Kumul Khanate, a semi-autonomous state in Xinjiang whose rulers traced their lineage back to the Mongol imperial family. When the final khan died in 1930, that surviving political line came to an end.

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8095. Juana Maria Lived Alone Eighteen-The Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island lived alone for 18 years on an island off the coast of California, from 1835 to 1853. She was later known as Juana Maria, and she was the last surviving member of the Nicoleno people. She was also the last known native speaker of the Nicoleno language.

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8096. Caesars Waitresses Greeted As Slaves-When Caesars Palace opened in 1966 in Las Vegas, it leaned hard into its Greco-Roman fantasy theme. Cocktail waitresses wore Greco-Roman wigs and greeted guests by saying,

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8097. Wilfrid Laurier Rode Streetcars Daily-Canadian Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier rode a streetcar to his office on Parliament Hill every day and spoke with other passengers to stay connected with everyday Canadians. Laurier was not wealthy enough to buy a home in Ottawa, so his supporters pooled money to purchase one for him. That house later became known as Laurier House.

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8098. Erasmus Darwin Rhymed Evolution First-English physician and writer Erasmus Darwin proposed his own theory of evolution in a poem nearly 70 years before his grandson, English naturalist Charles Darwin, published his famous work. Erasmus laid out the idea in

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8099. Rich Dad’s Poor Dad Wasn’t-Neither of the men behind

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8100. Gallaudet Eleven Beat Motion Sickness-The Gallaudet Eleven were deaf men whom NASA recruited to study the effects of weightlessness because their deafness made them immune to motion sickness. In one experiment, researchers took them out on a boat to test motion effects, but the study fell apart for an unexpected reason. The researchers became impaired by seasickness, while the deaf subjects remained unaffected.

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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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