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In the Roman Empire, only about 30 years passed between the end of the persecution of Christians and the beginning of the persecution of Pagans.
592
In the War of 1812, the United States captured and looted Toronto (then called York). The Parliamentary mace of Upper Canada was taken back to Washington D.C. and wasn't returned until 1934.
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Texas only needed about 2000 soldiers to successfully rebel against Mexico and establish the Republic of Texas in 1836.
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The first Indian restaurant in the UK was opened 50 years before the first fish and chip shop. (Hindoostane coffee house, in 1810).
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It is possible that Phoenician sailors circumnavigated Africa in 600 BC, more than 2000 years before it was done again.
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Quizmaster
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Jan 25, 2021
Credit @HornetTF666 for #594.
SirPhilippines
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Jan 25, 2021
"Ring Around The Rosies" is a song about the bubonic plague.
SirPhilippines
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Jan 25, 2021
Colorado has 697 sides, meaning it is a hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon
MDW
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Jan 23, 2025
No it isn't. A hexahectaenneacontakaiheptagon is flat. Colorado is concave because its on a sphere, and it has mountains and valleys as well.
plattitude
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Apr 26, 2021
@SirPhilippines, it really isn't. That interpretation has only been around post-ww2, and folklore scholars regard it as baseless.
mundidades
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Jan 25, 2021
In 1818, Argentina invaded California when it was in Spanish hands.
SlipperyEel
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Jan 25, 2021
You are taller in the morning than at night.
Pookminstamum
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Level 63
Oct 22, 2022
Unless you work nights. I joke with my s.o. when I seem taller, that he's not been working and is a bum.

We have uneven floors; makes it more dramatic.

Insaniot
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Jan 25, 2021
Thing to add to the brain getting smaller fact, the size of your brain isn't necessarily going to affect how smart you are. The number of folds you have in your brain has a greater impact on how smart you are. Apparently scientists believe that the reason for these folds is the increase the surface of the brain, which is why a small, wrinkly brain is smarter than a large, smooth one.

I think.

WhaLFC
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Nov 24, 2025
Whether it's true or not (makes logical sense though), it still explains why smoothbrain is a great insult!
MG17
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Jan 25, 2021
From the top of Mount Etna, in Catania province, converge ten Italian municipalities. Credits to HelveticaBold.

turnbacktwo
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Jan 26, 2021
Strange map
MG17
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Jan 26, 2021
Totally agree LOL
SirPhilippines
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Jan 25, 2021
Walmart has a lower acceptance rate than Harvard. Harvard has a 4.6% percent rate and a job at Walmart in Washington D.C. is 2.6% acceptance rate
SirPhilippines
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Jan 25, 2021
Oxymoron is an oxymoron
SlipperyEel
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Jan 26, 2021
You are a genius
SirPhilippines
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Jan 29, 2021
thanks!
sacheth9
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Feb 11, 2021
Oh yeah! It derives from the greek words oxus (sharp) and moros (stupid)
HornetTF666
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Jan 26, 2021
The South Pole is around 2800 meters (9200 feet) above sea level. But due to the way Earth spins, it feels more like 3400 meters (11200 feet). So many polar explorers suffer from altitude sickness when reaching the pole.
Geographystar
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Jan 27, 2021
Jimmy Carter was only born 7 years and 4 months after JFK.
PitifulExcuse
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Feb 5, 2024
Ronald Reagan was born before JFK
Destrochloridium
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Apr 30, 2025
Ronald Reagan was born before me too!
Blitz12
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Jan 27, 2021
595 sounds about right
Zylco
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Jan 27, 2021
Another fun fact, in Mandarin, there are only 19 words that start with O and all of them are just different ways of pronouncing "O" and "Ou"
SirPhilippines
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Jan 28, 2021
There is a version of Moana in Hawaiian
turnbacktwo
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Jan 28, 2021
Pineapples take two years to grow.
ItzIngenious
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Sep 5, 2021
Pen-Pineapple Apple-Pen
turnbacktwo
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Jan 28, 2021
China used more cement in 2011-2013 than US in the 20th century
turnbacktwo
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Jan 28, 2021
Cheetahs can not roar.
turnbacktwo
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Jan 28, 2021
Nintendo was founded in 1889.
SirPhilippines
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Jan 29, 2021
As a card company
turnbacktwo
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Jan 28, 2021
Bananas are berries but strawberries are not.
AlexThirkell
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Jan 28, 2021
Strawberries aren't made of straw either. They in fact don't exist at all.
Quizmaster
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Feb 2, 2021
False. Strawberries are berries and bananas are not. Source: Anyone with a shred of common sense.

Scientists don't get to arbitrarily redefine words. The word "berry" has been around for hundreds if not thousands of years, and has never referred to a banana.

It's as if scientists looked at a wheelchair, decided that a chair was something with wheels used for getting around, then said "a bicycle is a chair but a throne is not".

In conclusion, this fact is berry stupid.

turnbacktwo
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Feb 5, 2021
Quizmaster copy this https://www.livescience.com/57477-why-are-bananas-considered-berries.html
ItzIngenious
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Sep 5, 2021
Bananas ARE berries
JetPunker180
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May 3, 2022
Bananas are everything except Bananas.
SirPhilippines
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Jan 29, 2021
The second most language with the most pages in Wikipedia is Cebuano.
Quizmaster
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Feb 2, 2021
"The Cebuano Wikipedia is the Cebuano-language edition of the free online encyclopedia Wikipedia. In August 2017, it had more than 5 million articles, of which more than 99 percent were created by bots. It currently contains 5,502,819 articles, most of which were created by the automated program Lsjbot. There are only 184 active users."
SirPhilippines
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Feb 3, 2021
That's what I mean
sacheth9
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Feb 11, 2021
Yeah, that's kinda crazy
1ProximaCentauri
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Jan 29, 2021
Interesting Fact: if you randomly select a person in South Korea, There is a 20 percent chance that their last name is kim
AchillesFirstStand
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Apr 23, 2021
40% for Nguyen in Vietnam. I think that might already be on one of these fact pages though.
NV1
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Jan 29, 2021
The prime meridian on Mars was agreed on before the Earth-Prime Meridian was. Mars was in 1830 while Earth was agreed by every country much, much later in 1984.
tervuren
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Aug 23, 2021
I don't think you are telling the full story of fact 592, because I will remind you that we (Canadians) burned down the white house, and had won countless victories with the help of Isaac Brock and Tecumseh.
ItzIngenious
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Sep 5, 2021
The most common letter for a word to start with is a. The percentage is an astounding 100%.
Insaniot
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Nov 16, 2021
I’m pretty sure that there would be at least one word that doesn’t start with A…
ItzIngenious
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Feb 1, 2022
A word starts with a
In2restingFacts
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Apr 22, 2025
r/woooosh
PHG1960
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Level 69
Sep 15, 2021
Yeah, but Mexico had Santa Anna. He was worth 5000 soldiers for Texas.
brandybuck96
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Feb 4, 2024
Tangentially related to #594, the fad for coffee-drinking vastly precedes that for tea-drinking in the UK. In the 18th century, the UK/England was probably one of *the* countries you'd associate with coffee.
In2restingFacts
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Apr 22, 2025
It's because Texas is so badass
giommaso
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Feb 4, 2026
591 really depends on what you consider persecution of pagans.

There was no state-mandated persecution of paganism in the Roman empire for at least 100 years after the edict of Constantine, for instance.

However, it is true that the government started acting much more leniently towards crimes committed against pagans, and some acts of mob violence went completely unpunished.

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