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8281. Sioux Refused Black Hills Payment-In 1980, the U.S. Supreme Court awarded the Sioux nations $122 million for the taking of the Black Hills in United States v. Sioux Nation of Indians. The tribes refused the money because accepting it would extinguish their claim to the land, so the award remained in a federal account collecting interest and is now worth more than $1 billion. The dispute traces back to the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty, which protected the Black Hills from white settlement before a gold rush and a disputed 1877 cession transferred the land to the United States.

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8282. Lopes Owed Coworkers Lottery Millions-In November 2009, a 52-year-old New Jersey construction worker named Americo Lopes tried to keep a $38.5 million Mega Millions jackpot that his five coworkers said belonged to their workplace lottery pool at Berto Construction Inc. Lopes claimed he bought the winning ticket for himself, told his boss he was leaving for foot surgery that he reportedly never had, and then filed for unemployment after collecting $17,433,966 after taxes. In 2012, a jury unanimously rejected his story and awarded each of his five coworkers $4 million from the jackpot's $24 million cash-option value.

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8283. Coffee Fortunes Enabled Harem Gossip-Turkish coffee culture dates back roughly 500 years to the 16th-century Ottoman era, and fortune-telling from the leftover grounds became part of the tradition. It started in the Ottoman harem not just as magic but as a clever social loophole. Women used the

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8284. Robert Carter III Freed Hundreds-American planter and politician Robert Carter III, influenced by his Baptist beliefs, carried out the largest manumission, or voluntary freeing of enslaved people, in U.S. history before the Civil War, gradually emancipating more than 500 people he enslaved. He began the process by recording a Deed of Gift in Northumberland County, Virginia, in 1791, despite strong opposition from relatives and neighbors. Carter later settled many of the freed people on land he gave them and offered wages to those who continued working for him.

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8285. Penis Size Lacks Racial Differences-Despite widespread beliefs that penis size varies substantially by race, professionally measured scientific studies have found little evidence that race or ethnicity meaningfully predicts an individual's penis size. A 2015 review based on measurements by health professionals found no indication of differences between ethnicities.

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8286. Evocatio Invited Enemy Gods Away-The Romans practiced a siege ritual called

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8287. Jon-Erik Hexum's Blank Turned Fatal-In 1984, during a filming delay for the CBS series Cover Up, American actor and model Jon-Erik Hexum tried to lighten the mood by leaving one blank cartridge in a .44 Magnum revolver, spinning the cylinder, placing the gun against his right temple, and pulling the trigger. Although the cartridge contained no bullet, the muzzle blast fractured a quarter-sized piece of his skull and drove it into his brain, causing massive hemorrhaging. Doctors performed five hours of surgery, but Hexum was declared brain dead six days after the accident, at age 26. His heart, kidneys, corneas, and skin were subsequently donated for transplantation.

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8288. Smoke Odors Rarely Wake Sleepers-You may not wake during a nighttime house fire because the human brain does not reliably respond to odors during sleep, even when the smell is strong. A 1997 study from the Irondale Fire and Rescue Service exposed 10 sleeping adults to a smoke-like odor, but only two woke up, while none woke up to a strong citrus smell. Brown University researchers later tested six sleeping adults with peppermint and the noxious chemical pyridine and again found that odors rarely roused them, especially during deep sleep. Audible tones proved far more effective.

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8289. Basil's Deer Hunt Proved Fatal-Byzantine Emperor Basil I died in 886 A.D. after a hunting accident in which his belt became caught in a deer's antlers and he was allegedly dragged 16 miles (25 km) through the woods. An attendant finally freed Basil by cutting him loose with a knife, but the emperor suspected the man of trying to assassinate him and had him executed. Basil contracted a fever after the accident and died.

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8290. Crates Walked Into Family Feuds-Greek Cynic philosopher Crates of Thebes was known for entering his friends' homes uninvited and helping reconcile family members, even when they were

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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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