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As President of Venezuela, Hugo Chavez realized that he technically had unlimited power to use Venezuela's Emergency Broadcast System. TV stations were legally required to stop whatever they were airing and air Chavez's message instead. He often used this power to deliver rambling speeches on whatever topic he felt important at the moment.

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"A True Story" is the first known work of fiction to include travel to outer space. It was written in the 2nd century AD by Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian living in the Roman Empire.

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From 1774–1777, the unofficial flag of the colony of New York was the George Rex flag. It looked like this:

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In the late 1700s, doctors and medical students in New York City were known for raiding cemeteries. They were looking for fresh corpses which they would dig up and use to practice surgical technique. Understandably, this angered the non-medical population. In 1788, after a med student was caught dissecting a corpse, a mob of 2000 people formed and forced all doctors in the city into hiding. At least 6 people died in the rioting.

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In 2022, just 327 people represented over 1/3rd of all shoplifting arrests in New York City. Collectively they were arrested and released over 6,000 times – an average of more than 18 times per person.

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Nov 30, 2023

Tesla's Cybertruck can outpace a Porsche 911 - while towing another Porsche

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Level 61

Nov 30, 2023

im pretty sure that Aaaaba and Zyzzyzus are the first and last scientific animal names

Level 73

Dec 2, 2023

Well I just discovered two species and named them aaaaaaaaaaa and zzzzzzzzz respectively

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Dec 3, 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaaaba

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zyzzyx

Level 73

Dec 3, 2023

Well I haven’t updated Wikipedia yet

Level 61

Dec 4, 2023

good luck with that

Level 68

Dec 2, 2023

The Mississippi River was once five miles wide. Some whales known to have swam up it have had their remains found as far as Michigan.

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Dec 2, 2023

Around 40% of all vandalism on Wikipedia is reverted by one bot, ClueBot NG.

Level 58

Dec 6, 2023

THATS WHY HES THE GOAT

THE GOAT

Level 59

Dec 8, 2023

or as the 2023 Wikipedia Razzies puts it: "ClueBot NG has "contributed" exclusively by reverting other editors' work and sending them threatening messages on their talk pages."

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Dec 11, 2023

perfect

Level 68

Dec 2, 2023

There was once a serious U.S. proposal to nuke the moon in order to show strength in the face of the Soviets. It was scrapped at the last minute in favor of landing humans there.

Level 68

Dec 2, 2023

When the U.S. bought Alaska, due to a change in the calendar system, October 8th through 17th never occurred in the territory.

Level 59

Dec 5, 2023

Which happened to most other places switching from Julian to Gregorian calendars albeit without the buying bit and at different times.

The Swedes tried to do it more gradually instead of doing it all in one go until the Great Northern War happened and a bunch of confusion later, the Julian calendar was restored by adding an extra leap day to an already leap year, thus February 30th existed once in 1712.

Level 60

Apr 11, 2024

And in Samoa, December 30, 2011 never happened.

Level 65

Dec 2, 2023

If you were to look at earth from space, it would look like there was one extra day in a year.

Level 64

Dec 2, 2023

Veritasium fan?

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Dec 3, 2023

Yes.

Level 68

Dec 4, 2023

The Nebraska Legislature is the only unicameral legislature in the United States. It is also the only one to be officially nonpartisan.

Level 68

Dec 4, 2023

There are coral reefs in the Arctic Circle.

Level 61

Dec 5, 2023

in china, May 35 is used when referring to the Tiananmen Square massacre of june 4

https://www.nytimes.com › Opinion › Global Opinion

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/May_35th

Level 61

Dec 5, 2023

how to do hyperlinks again?

Level 73

Dec 5, 2023

a href="url">Whatever you want the link to say

and remove the enters

Level 49

Dec 22, 2023

Like this?

Level 64

Dec 22, 2023

Yes

Level 50

Dec 16, 2023

you mean its used by the people, right? because it wouldnt make sense for the government to confirm the existence of the massacre

Level 63

Dec 6, 2023

If you laid out the DNA found in just one singular human cell, it would be about 9 feet long.

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

Concrete bunkers are ubiquitous in Albania. They have an average of 14.7 bunkers per square mile. Over 750,000 were built by Enver Hoxha.

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

The Ig Nobel prize is a prize given to the most unusual scientific discoveries.

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ig_Nobel_Prize_winners

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

List of places that no longer exist in Spain: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_destroyed_landmarks_in_Spain

Level 61

Dec 7, 2023

Alexander the great may have been buried alive

Level 61

Dec 7, 2023

George Washington owned a distillery

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Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

Ima Hogg was known as the first lady of Texas.

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

SI rules states you can't use a capital letter for a unit unless it's named after a person, but everyone uses L for the litre... so they made someone up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_%C3%89mile_Jean-Baptiste_Litre

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

The longest article paper on wikipedia is a scientific paper that itself only contains 5 words. The full text is: "I got it there then (8068)."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cneoridium_dumosum_(Nuttall)_Hooker_F._Collected_March_26,_1960,_at_an_Elevation_of_about_1450_Meters_on_Cerro_Quemaz%C3%B3n,_15_Miles_South_of_Bah%C3%ADa_de_Los_Angeles,_Baja_California,_M%C3%A9xico,_Apparently_for_a_Southeastward_Range_Extension_of_Some_140_Miles

Level 73

Dec 8, 2023

Okay we'll just do a link

Level 60

Apr 12, 2024

What do you mean by longest article paper? I assume longest title?

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

According to the Raven Paradox, an apple being green supports the implication that all ravens are black.

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

The fourth, fifth, and sixth derivatives of position (the first three being velocity, acceleration and jerk), are named snap, crackle and pop.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth,_fifth,_and_sixth_derivatives_of_position

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

In 1897, three Swedes tried to make it to the north pole in a balloon. It didn't work.

Level 58

Dec 7, 2023

This is the greatest comment section of all time

Level 73

Dec 7, 2023

+∞

Level 65

Dec 10, 2023

Longest interesting facts section ever, most likely because it hasn’t been open for a month.

Level 73

Dec 10, 2023

And unimp0rtant, ooftownroad and I went crazy on this one. And then you have the infinite money plan chain as well as the “xth” comment

Level 58

Dec 11, 2023

the north pole massacre one goes hard

Level 64

Dec 11, 2023

It all adds up...

The December 2023 edition of the Greatest Comment Section Ever Award goes to: Interesting Facts - Page 188!

*applause*

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Dec 12, 2023

YEAH BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOY

Level 60

Dec 14, 2023

I’ve seen better comment sections, gonna be real here and say that this comment section really hasn’t been that funny.

Level 73

Dec 15, 2023

The others already got their awards. I mean, they just had the “3 letter body parts” quiz on the front page. Quizmaster isn’t going to feature this comment section

Level 61

Dec 8, 2023

Ohiowa is a village named for Iowa and Ohio, and is located in Nebraska

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Level 50

Dec 8, 2023

Some US Police Departments can set an IQ Limit for Police Officers, meaning that they will hire nobody above a certain IQ.

Barbados has a regressive corporate tax rate, which means that companies that earn more money have to pay less tax (for this one, multiple wikipedia articles contradict each other but the one that says that Barbados does have regressive corp. tax has a source

Level 65

Dec 11, 2023

The Christmas song named “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” is based off a book of the same name.

Level 64

Dec 13, 2023

New facts! and none of them were the ones we suggested!

Level 68

Dec 13, 2023

Such is life.

Level 73

Dec 13, 2023

Quizmaster just found some cool stuff about new york he couldn't wait to tell

Level 58

Dec 13, 2023

I feel like I've heard 939 before on this site before

Level 73

Dec 13, 2023

I got excited and thought the highest page number said 198...

Level 64

Dec 13, 2023

that flag would fail.

Level 73

Dec 14, 2023

That was interesting.

Level 68

Dec 14, 2023

According to his very arbitrary grading scale, indeed. However it's a fine flag.

Level 64

Dec 15, 2023

lol

Level 73

Dec 15, 2023

I thought his grading scale was quite reasonable, my state got a decent grade. I forgot Utah got a new flag, it really does look sweet though.

Level 68

Dec 14, 2023

The Aztec Empire was not a single, unitary country. It was actually an alliance of three separate city-states.

Level 68

Dec 14, 2023

Following the Spanish Armada, the English sent their own Armada to Spain in less than a year. It also failed.

Level 64

Dec 15, 2023

Minnesota has just adopted a new flag

Level 73

Dec 16, 2023

Looks a lot cooler, I think it would pass.

Level 64

Dec 16, 2023

It has

Level 73

Dec 17, 2023

I meant pass in the one guys video

Level 73

Dec 18, 2023

yes

Level 64

Dec 18, 2023

oh my mistake. yes, actually, he does

Level 65

Dec 20, 2023

... And they ruined it with an official redisign

Seriously, I think the Minnesota state flag as of current is better

Level 64

Dec 21, 2023

ugh it's no longer as good as it was. tricolor was better. oh well

Level 64

Dec 21, 2023

it's still better than some ~~most~~ of the other state flags.

Level 65

Dec 21, 2023

I would accept this flag any day over the travesty that is the Delaware state flag

Level 68

Dec 17, 2023

Jean-Claude Duvalier, former dictator of Haiti, became the country's president when he was only 19.

Level 68

Dec 17, 2023

When the Congo gained independence from Belgium in 1960, only sixteen people in the entire country had graduated from college.

Level 68

Dec 18, 2023

Senator James Shields represented Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri in the Senate.

Level 68

Dec 18, 2023

Rebecca Latimer Felton, former Senator from Georgia, holds the record for not only being the first woman in Congress, but also being the last one to own slaves and holding the shortest term (one day).

Level 73

Dec 18, 2023

We need a separate page for your US senator government facts.

Level 68

Dec 18, 2023

Such has been proposed before. I think it's a wonderful idea, myself.

Level 60

Dec 19, 2023

If you think the George Rex flag is bad, you should see the unofficial New Mexico flag (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9c/Flag_of_New_Mexico_%281912-1925%29.svg/1920px-Flag_of_New_Mexico_%281912-1925%29.svg.png)

Level 50

Dec 21, 2023

Honestly, the unofficial NM flag is a masterpiece compared to , , , , ,

Level 50

Dec 21, 2023

looks like i cant really do hyperlinks so im just gonna put the links here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Liberia#County_flags (Liberia County Flags)

https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/973mlf/i_give_you_the_flag_of_helena_in_all_its_comic/ (Helena, MT)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_County,_California#/media/File:Flag_of_Riverside_County,_California.png (Riverside Co. of CA)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_flags_of_the_United_States#/media/File:Schenectady_Liberty_Flag.svg (Former Flag of Schenectady, NY)

looks like i cant really do hyperlinks so im just gonna put the links here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Liberia#County_flags (Liberia County Flags)

https://www.reddit.com/r/vexillology/comments/973mlf/i_give_you_the_flag_of_helena_in_all_its_comic/ (Helena, MT)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riverside_County,_California#/media/File:Flag_of_Riverside_County,_California.png (Riverside Co. of CA)

Level 50

Dec 21, 2023

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Vermont#/media/File:Flag_of_the_Vermont_Republic.svg (Former VT flag)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_flags_of_counties_of_Iowa#/media/File:Flag_of_Van_Buren_County,_Iowa_(Sesquicentennial).svg (Van Buren County, IA)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags_of_counties_in_Arkansas#/media/File:Pulaski_Flag_AR.png (Pulaski County, AR)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:SVG_flags_of_counties_of_Kentucky#/media/File:Flag_of_Perry_County,_Kentucky.svg (Perry County, KY)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_counties_and_municipalities_in_Mississippi#/media/File:Flag_of_Jonestown,_Mississippi.svg (Jonestown, MS)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags_of_counties_in_Wyoming#/media/File:Flag_of_Park_County,_Wyoming.gif (Park,WY)

And finally, the worst of them all: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Flags_of_counties_in_Wyoming#/media/File:Flag_of_Converse_County,_Wyoming.gif (Converse County, WY)

Level 50

Dec 21, 2023

Wait i forgot the worst is actually https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_County,_Nebraska#/media/File:Flag_of_Brown_County,_Nebraska.svg Brown County, NE

Honorable Mention: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bienville_Parish,_Louisiana#/media/File:Flag_of_Bienville_Parish,_Louisiana.svg (Bienville Parish, LA)

Level 64

Dec 23, 2023

Who puts a road map on their flag??

Level 63

Dec 20, 2023

Imagine being a delegate from the Constitutional Convention celebrating after the Constitution was ratified and then some medical students from New York City cause a riot from digging up corpses

Level 68

Dec 21, 2023

I had a dream that two more fact pages were added, but they were very mundane ones, such as "Tibet is in China." The last newly-added fact, however, simply read "shut up." I'm sure this means something.

Level 50

Dec 21, 2023

i had a dream that ooftownroad's "i dont have a fact" fact from page 176 was added so when you completed a quiz you could literally just see "interesting fact: ooftownroad cannot think of a fun fact"

Level 49

Dec 22, 2023

Fun Fact: There is a sign near Llandrindod Wells that says “Llandegley International Airport“ except that airport doesn't exist.

Level 64

Dec 23, 2023

There is a folk story in the United Kingdom that it is forbidden for a commoner to die in a royal palace, apparently due to the 'fact' that anyone who dies on royal grounds technically is entitled to a state funeral. This, however, turned out to be false. Several people have died on royal palace grounds and they didn't receive a state funeral.

Level 64

Dec 23, 2023

Or something. I'm a little tired/distracted rn feel free to check or correct

Level 64

Dec 23, 2023

Christiania is an intentional community and commune on the site of a former military base in Copenhagen. Known for its trade in cannabis, which is illegal in Denmark, the micronation was ranked in 2016 as the fourth most popular tourist attraction in Copenhagen.

yes i pulled that straight from Wikipedia, why'd you ask

Level 73

Dec 23, 2023

The most powerful supercomputer in Spain is housed in a church built in the 1940s.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcelona_Supercomputing_Center

Level 64

Dec 23, 2023

In 2006, a Coca-Cola employee offered to sell Coca-Cola secrets to Pepsi. Pepsi responded by notifying Coca-Cola.

Borrowed that one off of BigGeographyGuy, if anyone remembers him

Level 64

Dec 24, 2023

In 1882, a man named James A. William invented the gun-powered mousetrap. According to him, it can also be used as a trap for "any person or thing" attempting to open a door or window into a home. Ouch

Level 65

Dec 24, 2023

If you get food poisoning from a burger, there is a larger chance it was from the lettuce than from the meat.

Level 65

Dec 24, 2023

You know that surf rock song Miserlou by Dick Dale? Well its actually a surf rock cover of a Middle Eastern folk song of the same name.

Level 69

Apr 28, 2024

But it smells so good.