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8231. Chloe Moretz Avoided Film Title-Actress Chloe Grace Moretz, who played the superhero Hit-Girl in the 2010 comedy Kick-Ass, could not bring herself to say the film's offensive title aloud while promoting it because she was only 12 during filming. In public interviews, she simply referred to it as

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8232. Conan Stars Trained Each Other-While filming the 1982 fantasy film Conan the Barbarian, James Earl Jones and Arnold Schwarzenegger worked closely together and helped each other improve in different ways. Jones gave Schwarzenegger acting lessons and coached him on performance, while Schwarzenegger helped Jones with physical training and exercise.

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8233. Casablanca Ending Followed Hays Code-The 1942 film Casablanca could not simply end with Rick Blaine, played by American actor Humphrey Bogart, and Ilsa Lund getting back together because Hollywood's Hays Code forbade portraying a married woman leaving her husband for another man. Ilsa was still married to resistance leader Victor Laszlo, so the filmmakers had to keep the romance within the Production Code's moral restrictions. The final ending instead had Rick send Ilsa away with Laszlo, producing the bittersweet conclusion that became one of the film's defining moments.

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8234. Alan Napier Barely Knew Batman-British actor Alan Napier had never read comic books and did not even know who Batman was when his agent offered him the role of Alfred Pennyworth in the 1966 Batman television series. Napier recalled thinking it was

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8235. Megan Fox Had Seventeen-Year Relationship-Actress Megan Fox met American actor Brian Austin Green in 2004, when she was 18 and he was 30. They became engaged in 2006, ended the engagement in 2009, reunited and married in 2010, separated in 2015, then reconciled in 2016 and dismissed their pending divorce in 2019. The couple split again in 2020 and finalized their divorce in 2021, ending a relationship that had stretched across 17 years. Fox and Green have three sons together.

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8236. Delimar Vera Returned After Kidnapping-In 1997, 10-day-old Delimar Vera was kidnapped from her Philadelphia home by a woman named Carolyn Correa, who deliberately set a fire to cover the abduction and then raised the baby as her own under the name Aaliyah. Authorities believed Delimar had died in the blaze, but six years later, her mother, Luz Cuevas, spotted a young girl at a birthday party who looked strikingly like her. Cuevas pursued DNA testing, which proved in 2004 that the girl was her missing daughter. Correa was arrested and later convicted of kidnapping, arson, and attempted murder, receiving a prison sentence of 9 to 30 years.

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8237. Akira Kurosawa Rewarded Western Remake-After watching the 1960 Western The Magnificent Seven, Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa was so impressed by the American remake of his 1954 film Seven Samurai that he sent director John Sturges a ceremonial Japanese sword as a gift.

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8238. Worst Movie Sold One Ticket-When the 2011 comedy The Worst Movie Ever! opened at the Laemmle Sunset 5 in Los Angeles, it sold just one ticket during its opening weekend and grossed only $11, giving it the lowest recorded theatrical opening at the time. Director Glenn Berggoetz said the disastrous turnout was not a publicity stunt, blaming the film's midnight-screening schedule and difficulty generating interest in its release.

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8239. Ranavalona's Reign Halved Madagascar's Population-During Queen Ranavalona I's rule, Madagascar's population is estimated to have fallen by about 50%, from around 5 million in 1833 to 2.5 million in 1839. The enormous death toll came amid years of military campaigns, high mortality among people subjected to forced labor, disease, slavery, and harsh traditions of justice under her rule. Ranavalona maintained an army of roughly 20,000 to 30,000 soldiers and repeatedly sent it on campaigns to expand and enforce Merina control across the island.

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8240. Meth Python Needed Prison Rehab-A python owned by Australian drug traffickers running a methamphetamine lab became addicted to crystal meth after prolonged exposure to drug fumes and absorption through its skin. Authorities described the snake as

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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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