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8191. Fraudsters Starved On Stolen Yacht-Two British fraudsters stole a luxury yacht while fleeing police and were later found dead after apparently starving off the African coast. Peter Clarke, 49, and Sharon Arthurs-Chegini, 46, skipped bail in Britain after a 2005 yacht theft in Cornwall, then stole another yacht from Portugal in 2006 and sailed south. Fishermen found their badly decomposed bodies aboard the drifting yacht Skipper VII about 12 miles off the coast of Senegal on September 7, 2006. An inquest heard that the yacht had no fresh water or provisions, and Arthurs-Chegini’s diary said they had not eaten for four weeks.

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8192. Dale Steele’s Historic Liver Donation-The oldest organ donor in U.S. history was Dale Steele, a 100-year-old World War II veteran from Nebraska who died in 2026. Steele suffered a head injury in February, and after doctors placed him on life support, the Omaha-based organ procurement group Live On Nebraska asked his family about donating his liver. His family agreed, and doctors successfully transplanted the liver into another patient. The recipient recovered well enough to go home just five days after the operation.

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8193. Niagara Falls Is Eroding Away-At the current rate of erosion of about 30 centimeters, or 12 inches, per year, Niagara Falls will eventually wear away the remaining 32 kilometers, or 20 miles, to Lake Erie. The falls have been retreating since the last Ice Age as flowing water slowly cuts back through the Niagara Escarpment. If that rate continues, the falls could cease to exist in about 50,000 years.

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8194. Goliath’s Height Grew In Texts-Goliath’s height was originally described in some early textual witnesses as “four cubits and a span,” or about 6 feet 9 inches. Later versions of the biblical text increased his height to “six cubits and a span,” or about 9 feet 9 inches. The shorter measurement appears in sources such as the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Septuagint, and the writings of Josephus, while the taller version became the better-known reading in later Hebrew tradition.

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8195. Outlaws Beheaded Hells Angels Bikers-The war between the Outlaws and the Hells Angels began after three Hells Angels bikers were executed and beheaded by Outlaws members in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, on April 27, 1974. The killings reportedly came as retaliation for the beating of an Outlaw by a Hells Angel in New York City in 1973. Later in 1974, the Hells Angels declared war on the Outlaws during a club summit in Cleveland, and the conflict cost both clubs hundreds of fatalities over the following decades.

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8196. Lavender Scare Purged Gay Workers-The Lavender Scare was a mid-20th-century moral panic about homosexual people in the United States government, and it led to their mass dismissal from federal service. Officials claimed gay and lesbian employees posed security risks because foreign agents could supposedly blackmail them. The purge ran alongside McCarthyism and the Second Red Scare, with anti-communist fear and anti-gay suspicion reinforcing each other. In 1953, President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s Executive Order 10450 helped formalize the removals by treating “sexual perversion” as grounds for firing federal workers.

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8197. Singapore’s Germany Gambling PSA Backfired-During the 2014 World Cup, the Singaporean government aired an anti-gambling PSA where a boy complained that his father had bet all his savings on Germany winning. The National Council on Problem Gambling intended the ad to warn families about the harm caused by gambling addiction. The campaign backfired after Germany actually won the tournament.

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8198. Pink Duck Carries Chicken Risk-Eating duck medium rare can be just as risky as eating undercooked chicken. In 2015, the UK Food Standards Agency warned that duck should be cooked until it is steaming hot all the way through, with no pink meat and clear juices. The agency said Campylobacter, the same food-poisoning bacteria often linked to chicken, can also contaminate duck.

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8199. Sanmay Ved Briefly Bought Google-In 2015, former Google employee Sanmay Ved purchased the Google.com domain for $12 after it briefly appeared as available on the Google Domains platform. Google canceled the order within about a minute and regained control of the domain. The company later rewarded Ved with $6,006.13, a number meant to resemble “Google.” When Ved said he would donate the money to charity, Google doubled the reward.

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8200. Brodie Helmets Raised Injury Reports-During World War I, the British Army reportedly noticed that recorded head wounds rose after soldiers began wearing the Brodie helmet. Initially, this appeared to be a failure, as the steel helmet was designed to shield troops from shrapnel and falling debris. The better explanation was that many blows that once would have killed soldiers outright now left them alive with reportable injuries.

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  2. 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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  4. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  10. 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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  13. 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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  17. 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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  19. 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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  23. 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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  24. 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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  26. 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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