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8131. Going To The People Movement-During the

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8132. Queen Anne's Seventeen Pregnancies-British monarch Queen Anne was pregnant 17 times in 17 years, but at least 12 of those pregnancies ended in miscarriage or stillbirth. Of her five children born alive, only Prince William, Duke of Gloucester, survived past infancy. Anne deeply grieved him when he died in 1700 at age 11. When she died in 1714 without a surviving heir, the British crown passed to the House of Hanover.

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8133. John Denver's Unvisited Country Roads-American singer-songwriter John Denver was born in New Mexico, yet one of his most famous songs became an anthem for West Virginia. When

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8134. Monaco Hosts Most Formula Drivers-More than half of the current (2026) Formula 1 grid lives in Monaco, a country with a population of only about 38,500 people. Several factors, such as its favorable tax policies, proximity to numerous European race venues, and long-standing association with motorsport, attract drivers to Monaco. The principality is also home to the famous Monaco Grand Prix, one of Formula 1's most prestigious races.

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8135. Bull Sharks Occupied Golf Course-After floods near Brisbane, Australia, in 1996, six bull sharks became trapped in a lake on a golf course that had been connected to nearby waterways. The sharks adapted to the low-salinity environment and continued living in the lake for years instead of dying or escaping. Researchers monitored the unusual population and found that some of the sharks remained there until 2013. Their 17-year stay was described as the longest uninterrupted period ever recorded for bull sharks living in a low-salinity environment.

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8136. Sacculina Carcini Feminizes Male Crabs-A parasitic barnacle called Sacculina carcini infects crabs and takes control of their bodies in a remarkably sophisticated way. Once inside its host, the parasite alters the crab's hormones and behavior, encouraging the development of feminine traits that help the crab care for the barnacle's eggs. Infected male crabs may begin performing the same egg-tending behaviors as females, even though the eggs belong to the parasite. The sex change is permanent, and male crabs often retain these changes even if the barnacle is later removed.

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8137. Wisconsin Canoes Predate Egyptian Pyramids-In Wisconsin, archaeologists have discovered 16 ancient canoes in a lake, with the oldest dating back about 5,200 years. That makes the oldest canoe roughly 400 years older than Egypt's first pyramids. Experts believe people may have intentionally left the canoes in the water so other tribal members could use them later.

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8138. Prometheus Tree Cut For Research-In 1964, a graduate student and personnel from the United States Forest Service cut down a Great Basin bristlecone pine known as Prometheus in Nevada for research purposes. Only after examining its growth rings did researchers realize the tree was at least 4,862 years old, making it the oldest known non-clonal tree ever recorded. Prometheus had been alive since long before the construction of the Egyptian pyramids. Its destruction sparked controversy and helped increase efforts to protect other ancient bristlecone pines from similar fates.

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8139. Manuel Noriega Sued Call OfDuty-Panamanian dictator and drug trafficker Manuel Noriega reportedly had no idea he appeared as a villain in the video game Call of Duty: Black Ops II until his grandchildren asked him why they were hunting him in the game. The game, released in 2012, portrayed Noriega as a key antagonist during missions based on historical events in Panama. After learning about his depiction, Noriega filed a lawsuit against the game's publisher, claiming it used his likeness without permission. A court ultimately dismissed the case.

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8140. Alexander Hamilton Backed Enslaved Soldiers-During the American Revolution, Alexander Hamilton supported a proposal to recruit enslaved men into the Continental Army in exchange for their freedom. Writing in 1779, Hamilton argued that Black soldiers were as capable as white soldiers and could help address the army's manpower shortages. He also claimed that their

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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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