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796
In 2010, the owner of the company that makes Segways died when he accidentally drove his Segway off a cliff.
797
In the English language, the holiday of Easter was named for the festival of Ēostre, which celebrated the Germanic goddess of spring.
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Due to inbreeding, Cleopatra only had 6 great great grand-parents instead of the normal 16. It is also likely that she married two of her own brothers, both named Ptolemy.
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Seth MacFarlane, the creator of Family Guy, showed up ten minutes late and missed his flight in 2001. That same plane would later crash into one of the Twin Towers, killing everyone on board.
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Arctic comes from the Greek word arktos, meaning bear. That means Antarctica is literally anti-bear.
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Quizmaster
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Oct 15, 2022
Credit @JohnnyYeet for #799
YouLoveEagle
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Oct 15, 2022
Wow, so empty here
YouLoveEagle
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Oct 16, 2022
*not
SteveTheEagle
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May 12, 2025
You love me?🥲
eppek
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Level 69
Oct 16, 2022
There are over 20,000 species of worms.
IsleAuHaulte
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Oct 16, 2022
The first actual Kentucky Fried Chicken was in South Salt Lake, Utah. Pete Harman sold his friend Harlan Sanders' chicken under license at his establishment and came up with the name to distinguish its Southern origin. He also came up with "finger kickin' good" and the bucket of chicken.
YouLoveEagle
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Oct 16, 2022
Damn, my whole life is a lie
Zzineohp
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Oct 17, 2022
That's why no one in Kentucky actually cares about KFC
bentshaggyoil
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Oct 21, 2022
Who kicks fingers
Zzineohp
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Level 55
Oct 26, 2022
People from Utah apparently
Lightning10
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Nov 3, 2022
its finger lickin' good doh
IsleAuHaulte
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Nov 13, 2022
GD autocorrect!

The edit option expired after 60 minutes.

Quizmaster
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Oct 31, 2022
JetPunk fact checkers have rated this fact as "misleading". Unless you read it very carefully, it would leave readers with the impression that KFC. It did not. It started in Kentucky.
Zzineohp
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Nov 4, 2022
My reaction when somebody tries to convince me that KFC (it didn't)
TomGreene16
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Nov 9, 2022
it started in kentucky
THETBOSS5
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Oct 16, 2022
Mulan has killed more people than any other Disney princess
Quizmaster
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Oct 17, 2022
Elsa probably.
JohnnyYeet
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Oct 17, 2022
She probably killed people, and they then chose to let it go
Insaniot
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Oct 24, 2022
I dont think Elsa killed very many people in Frozen 1 or 2 combined, if any at all even. If you count people dying because of Let it Go being played on loop thousands of times over and over again then she’s definitely killed the most people, however I’d attribute that to the children that refuse to listen to a different song more than the character singing it. Also Elsa isn’t even a Disney Princess so she doesn’t qualify for this category.
Zzineohp
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Oct 27, 2022
And he has a higher level than you, so you have to listen to him
ItzIngenious
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Oct 31, 2022
Elsa froze the entire world - think of the famine, temperatures, and sheer misery of it all. People must have died.
AntiMatter8192
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Jan 22, 2023
She froze the entire world? She is definitely the worst Disney princess.
Fyreball
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Aug 8, 2024
Moana decided to kill thousands of coconuts.
FreeStater
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Oct 16, 2022
Interestingly, the Segway CEO apparently backed up too far while trying to make way for a dog walker.
Zzineohp
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Oct 17, 2022
Fun Fact: England is more popular than Russia, despite the latter having over 100 times more area!
AllOfSanMarino
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Oct 17, 2022
do you mean higher population, higher population density, or are you just wrong? because Russia has around 140 million people living in it, and the UK, all of it, not just England, has only about 60 million inhabitants.
Zzineohp
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Oct 18, 2022
I mean it's more popular, more people like it
Clark1
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Feb 26, 2023
uhhhh... the UK isn't Communist?
Clark1
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Feb 26, 2023
Rereading my comment, I meant that people like it more because the UK isn't Communist, not that I had previously thought that the UK was Communist.
LuigiDood227
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Oct 18, 2022
well no kidding I like countries that don't abuse other countries- erm well in the 21st century, I guess
bentshaggyoil
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Oct 18, 2022
Bangladesh has a greater population than Russia, along with the island of Java
bentshaggyoil
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Oct 21, 2022
Also what statistic are you using for “popularity”
Lightning10
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Nov 3, 2022
how much they like it themselves prob
AllOfSanMarino
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Oct 17, 2022
If all of Africa were a country, it would have the third highest population, still behind India and China.
YouLoveEagle
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Oct 18, 2022
About 1 million people behind or 2 million
Quizmaster
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Oct 31, 2022
Not for long.
Zzineohp
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Nov 4, 2022
What are you planning to do to the people of China and India?
Clark1
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Feb 26, 2023
QM means that Africa's population is growing faster.
Xtrordinary
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Dec 26, 2024
You dont know that
YouLoveEagle
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Nov 29, 2022
When I say this, it has officially passed China and India
JohnnyYeet
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Oct 18, 2022
Andrew Jackson once said that his only regret in life was not shooting John Caldwell Calhoun. That was his vice president.
Azawadu
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Oct 24, 2022
Out of all of the posts here, this is the one where I want to know your source the most.
JohnnyYeet
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Oct 27, 2022
https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Attempt_to_kill_King_Andrew.htm

My bad, he regretted not HANGING Calhoun. He regretted not shooting Henry Clay, his secretary of state.

Quizmaster
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Too good to be true, and in fact, it's not.

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Andrew_Jackson

Augustus Ceaser Buell, who is considered a very unreliable historian, notorious for inventing quotes, in History of Andrew Jackson, pioneer, patriot, soldier, politician, president (1904), recounting comments by Jackson to William Allen, Thomas Benton, and Francis Blair at Blair's house, just days after leaving the presidency. What is probably a paraphrase derived from this as if it were a direct quote of Jackson has appeared, without sources: "My only two regrets in life are that I did not hang Calhoun and shoot Clay".
LuigiDood227
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Oct 18, 2022
796 is the most ironic one I've ever seen
Lightning10
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SiloTheatrix
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IsleAuHaulte
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Oct 19, 2022
Prior to the United States' first major operation in World War One, the Meuse-Argonne Offensive, they shot off more artillery tonnage in under 3 hours along a narrow front than was used by both sides in the entire 4 years of the American Civil War.
Dimei
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Oct 20, 2022
The British Prime Minister with the shortest lasting premiership, Liz Truss, lasted 45 days. She was also the first Prime Minister in 70 years to witness the death of the monarch.
JohnnyYeet
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Oct 21, 2022
In 2003, basketball guard Anthony Carter wanted to opt into his $4 million extension with the Miami Heat, but his accountant forgot to file the request, leaving Miami with $4 million extra to sign Shaquille O'Neal, who would help Dwyane Wade win Miami their first title. Additionally, the player they traded to the Lakers for Shaq, Lamar Odom, helped LA win two titles in 2009 and 2010 alongside Kobe. On top of that, trading Shaq away indirectly made it possible for Miami to sign LeBron James and Chris Bosh in 2010, who both joined Wade in winning two more titles for Miami. So, these many major NBA events were tied to one relatively unknown players' agent's forgetfulness to file an extension.
JohnnyYeet
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Oct 21, 2022
Obv can't fit all that but just thought it would be interesting to share
HinesBrothers
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Oct 28, 2022
fasKinating
TWM03
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Oct 24, 2022
Liz Truss was prime minister of the UK for a shorter amount of time than her predecessor Boris Johnson was prime minister for after he resigned.
eppek
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Art Babbitt developed Goofy.
HinesBrothers
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Oct 28, 2022
The majority of U.S. states have a point east of a portion of Florida, and 10 states are entirely east of Florida.

Toronto, about 350 miles away from the nearest ocean, is east of Miami.

lordhagen27
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Oct 29, 2022
Instead of Gross National Product, Bhutan measures Gross National Happiness. Despite this, Bhutan was listed 95th out of 156 countries in the United Nation's 2019 World Happiness Report, and wasn't even listed in 2020 and 2021.
Dimby
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Nov 30, 2022
The Segway thing is less interesting when you read that he only bought the company in 2009.
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