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8221. Ferrari Punishes Owners Who Disobey-Ferrari imposes strict rules and expectations on its car owners, including discouraging public criticism of the brand, prohibiting certain unofficial modifications, and restricting unauthorized resale during the first year of ownership. Buyers who sell early must generally give a Ferrari dealership the right of first refusal, while owners who violate company rules can be blacklisted from buying future Ferraris through official channels. Ferrari has also taken legal action over modifications and uses of its cars that it believes damage the brand, including sending musician Deadmau5 a cease-and-desist letter over his customized

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8222. Roman Trade Drained Imperial Wealth-Nearly 2,000 years ago, the Roman Empire faced a trade deficit with a major outflow of gold and silver through its booming trade with India, as Romans eagerly imported spices, silk, precious goods, and other luxuries from the East. Roman writer Pliny the Elder complained about this

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8223. Flat Earthers Witnessed Midnight Sun-In 2024, a man named William Duffy organized The Final Experiment, flying 24 participants, including several prominent flat-earth believers, to Antarctica to observe the Midnight Sun. The phenomenon keeps the Sun above the horizon for a full 24-hour period during the Antarctic summer, something that standard Flat Earth models cannot easily explain. Some participants said the experience changed or challenged their beliefs after witnessing it firsthand. Others in the Flat Earth community continued to insist that the expedition or its evidence had been faked.

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8224. Spartan Warriors Depended On Helots-Ancient Sparta could maintain its famous full-time warrior class because it had conquered, subjugated, and enslaved nearby Greek populations, especially the Messenians and Laconians, turning many of them into state-controlled serfs known as helots. The helots performed most of the agricultural and manual labor, freeing Spartan citizens to focus heavily on military training and warfare. They were themselves Greek and may have outnumbered full Spartan citizens by roughly 10 to 1, making their population a constant source of fear for Sparta. That imbalance helped drive Sparta's harsh system of surveillance, intimidation, and periodic violence aimed at preventing helot rebellions.

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8225. George Wallace Apologized To Students-In his later years, former Alabama governor George Wallace personally apologized to civil rights pioneers Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood, the two Black students he had tried to block from entering the University of Alabama in 1963. Hood later spent hours interviewing Wallace and believed that his remorse over supporting segregation was sincere. When Hood earned his PhD in interdisciplinary studies from the university in 1997, he asked Wallace to present the degree, but Wallace was too ill to attend. Wallace died in 1998, and Hood attended his funeral.

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8226. Disney Hercules Angered Greek Audiences-When Disney released Hercules in Greece in 1997, Greek cultural officials, academics, and parents heavily criticized the film for distorting and

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8227. Elliptical Machines Exaggerate Calories Burned-Calorie counters on gym equipment can be surprisingly inaccurate, with one study finding that elliptical machines overestimated calories burned by as much as 42%, making them the least accurate cardio machines tested.

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8228. Brian Robson Mailed Himself Home-In 1965, a man named Brian Robson could not afford the trip home from Australia to Cardiff, Wales, so he had friends seal him inside a 36 x 30 x 38-inch wooden crate and ship him from Melbourne as air freight. His plan called for a direct 36-hour journey to London, but a full connecting flight diverted the crate through Los Angeles, stretching his confinement to 92 hours. During the ordeal, workers left the crate upside down for 22 hours, and the cold, lack of movement, and awkward positioning caused Robson to suffer badly and repeatedly lose consciousness. Officials discovered him in Los Angeles, where he spent several days recovering in a hospital before authorities deported him to Britain.

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8229. Ough Has Nine Different Pronunciations-The mnemonic

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8230. Michael Jackson Hid Deeper Voice-Michael Jackson's famous high-pitched speaking voice was reportedly not his natural voice, which was much deeper and stronger than the one he usually presented in public. His close friend, concert promoter David Gest, said Jackson normally spoke in a

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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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