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We appreciate all your support and hope you will contact us anytime regarding general feedback of our site, site improvement suggestions, or topics requests. We will not be able to grant all the topic requests, but we do grant them occasionally. Also, we, as writers, always appreciate your feedback on new articles (positive feedback makes us especially happy), so please leave a comment or give a thumbs up if you liked the article!
Again, we appreciate your continuing support!
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A collection of interesting facts and historical trivia about a variety of fun topics.
Random Facts added 99 Interesting Facts about Dreams (11/9/2009)
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You cannot snore and dream at the same time.
Random Facts Fun Halloween Fact: Bobbing for apples was traditionally associated with predicting future mates or fertility.
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The Jack-O-Lantern has its origins in an Irish tale of a man named Jack who tricked the devil.
Random Facts added 60 Random Facts about Depression (10/27/09)
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Abraham Lincoln first fell into a deep depression after Ann Rutledge, his first love, died. Lincoln reportedly suffered from chronic depression his entire life.
Random Facts added 53 Interesting Facts about Opera (10/26/09)
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Opera composers would sometimes hire a group of people to cheer their works or boo the works of their rivals. This group was called a claque (clapping) and was common at European opera performances.
Random Facts added 38 Interesting Facts about Junk Food (10/24/09)
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Mothers who eat junk food while pregnant or breast-feeding have children who are prone to obesity throughout life. The children are also more prone to diabetes, raised cholesterol, and high blood fat.
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Random Facts added 50 Random Facts about Autism (9/21/09)
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In 2007, the World Health Organization (WHO) argued that the world faces a critical problem with the growing number of people with mental and neurological problems, including autism, which accounts for 11% of global disease. The number is projected to reach 14.7% by 2020.
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added 45 Random Facts about Earth (9/17/09)
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Earth was originally born as a twin to the planet Theia, which was about half as wide as Earth and roughly the size of Mars. The two planets shared an orbit for several million years until they collided. Earth absorbed Theia, and the remaining debris eventually coagulated into Earth’s moon.
Random Facts 78 Important Facts about STIs/STDs (9/7/09)
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Although teenagers and young adults represent only 25% of the sexually active population, 15- to 24-year-olds account for nearly half of all STIs/STDs diagnoses each year. Every day in America, 12,000 teenagers contract a sexually transmitted disease.
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Random Facts added 34 Random Facts about Drunk Driving (8/28/09)
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The deadliest drunk-driving accident in the U.S. occurred in 1988 on Interstate 71 in Kentucky when a drunk driver with a BAC level of .24 g/dL caused a head-on collision with a school bus. The crash and ensuing fire killed 27 people (most of them children) and injured 34 others.
Random Facts added 82 Delicious Facts about Wine (8/21/09)
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Women are more susceptible to the effects of wine than men partly because they have less of an enzyme in the lining of the stomach that is needed to metabolize alcohol efficiently.
