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8101. Donald Glover Improvised Community Punchlines-While writing scripts for the TV series Community, the writers sometimes ended scenes with the note,

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8102. Eminem Hired Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. Protection-In 2003, Eminem planned to travel to the West Coast, but some Crips members allegedly demanded payment before they would back off. Eminem responded by asking the Samoan rap group Boo-Yaa T.R.I.B.E. for protection. The group agreed to help him, but they wanted one thing in return: an Eminem feature on their album.

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8103. Tapeworm Cancer In HIV Patient-A man in Colombia who was living with HIV developed tumors that looked nothing like any cancer doctors had previously encountered. As his condition worsened, researchers discovered that the abnormal cells did not come from the man himself. Instead, they originated from a parasitic tapeworm whose own cancerous cells had spread into his body. Doctors concluded that his severely weakened immune system, impaired by HIV, allowed the tapeworm cancer cells to survive and grow, making it the first known case of a person developing cancer that originated in a parasite.

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8104. Jonestown Basketball Team Refused Suicide-On November 18, 1978, members of the Peoples Temple basketball team were away from Jonestown, Guyana, playing a game in Georgetown when the mass murder-suicide unfolded. As more than 900 followers of cult leader Jim Jones died at the settlement, the team remained one of the few groups of Temple members outside the compound. According to survivors, Jones radioed the players and urged them to commit what he called

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8105. Fever Effect Improves Autism Symptoms-Researchers have documented a phenomenon known as the

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8106. JCM Farming Sued Balloon Companies-In California, a highly secretive company called JCM Farming owns an 80-acre olive farm surrounded by unusually high walls and guarded by armed security personnel. The property attracted attention from hot-air balloon operators who regularly flew over the area and questioned why an olive farm required such extensive security. In 2011, JCM Farming filed lawsuits against several balloon pilots and ballooning companies, arguing that the flights invaded the privacy of people on the property. The legal battle proved costly, and reports indicate that several balloon operators went out of business as a result.

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8107. Yeehaw Junction's Massive Missed Exit-Missing Exit 193 for Yeehaw Junction on Florida's Turnpike can lead to one of the longest highway detours in the United States. The interchange is located in a remote area of central Florida, where access points are scarce. Drivers who accidentally pass the exit must continue to the next opportunity to turn around, resulting in a detour of about 96 miles before they can return. This is the longest such detour anywhere in the U.S. highway system.

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8108. Shmita Required Seven-Year Debt Forgiveness-According to Jewish tradition, Moses declared that debts should be canceled every seven years as part of the Shmita, or Sabbath year. The practice was established in ancient Israel and required creditors to release certain outstanding debts at the end of the seven-year cycle. Shmita also called for agricultural land to lie fallow during that year, creating a broader system of economic and social renewal. The debt-release provision was intended to prevent long-term poverty and keep financial burdens from accumulating indefinitely.

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8109. Honey Bear Beer Meth Bust-In 2023, a 21-year-old New Zealand man named Aiden Sagala drank from a can of Canadian

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8110. Eugene O'Neill Disowned Oona Chaplin-In 1943, American playwright Eugene O'Neill disowned his 18-year-old daughter, Oona O'Neill, after she married 54-year-old actor Charlie Chaplin. O'Neill strongly opposed the marriage and cut off contact with his daughter shortly afterward. The estrangement lasted for the rest of his life. He never saw Oona again and never met any of the eight children she had with Chaplin.

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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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