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In Latin, the word “generator” originally meant “one who produces or gives birth,” meaning that etymologically, this tool gives birth to facts!

Learning new information in small daily doses leads to stronger long-term memory retention.

In Britain, saying "Good morning, Mr. Magpie, how's your wife?" to a lone magpie is a way to avoid bad luck.

In 2018, a large bag of 54 human hands washed up on the Siberian shores of the icy Amur River.

In January 2012, a parrot achieved a world record for opening 35 canned drinks in one minute.

Platypuses look so weird that when scientists first discovered them, they thought it was a hoax.

In Kentucky, 1876, a field was showered by a steady rain of mystery meat. This became known as The Kentucky Meat Shower.

In 2018, The Fact Site celebrated its 10th birthday by publishing this list of 1,000 interesting facts.

Batman and Predator exist in the same fictional universe. Since 1991, they have been featured together in three comic books.

The smallest dinosaur ever discovered is called the Microraptor, and is only 16 inches long.

Did you know that OJ Simpson’s father, Jimmie, was a well-known San Francisco drag queen?

Your nose is always visible to you, but your brain ignores it through a process called Unconscious Selective Attention.

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