10 Entertaining Fun Facts to Keep Your Trivia Game on Point

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    Text - Fact #357 Simon FactRepublic.com IBM sold Simon, a smartphone with a touchscreen display input that could send emails and run third party apps in 1994.
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    Text - Fact #359 FactRepublic.com Pistol dueling with wax bullets was a popular pastime in the early 20th Century and even featured as a sport in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
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    Text - Fact #355 FactRepublic.com Stan Lee planned on quitting the comic book industry until his wife Joan told him to write the type of characters he wanted to for his last project. The result was the Fantastic Four, which created a more humanly flawed type of superhero.
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    Text - Fact #352 FactRepublic.com Black people in Ancient Rome were not discriminated against because of their skin color physical features. They were not excluded from any profession and there was no stigma against mixed race relationships. Classical writers did not attach social status or degree of humanity to skin color.
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    Text - Fact #358 FactRepublic.com France sent 800 women to Quebec. The "Filles du Roi" ("Daughters of the King") were poor women who in 1663 agreed to go to the New France colony that was predominantly populated by men, to marry them. It worked; the population more than doubled in 10 years, and two-thirds of French Canadians today are their descendants.
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    Text - Fact #354 FactRepublic.com In 1908, the Russian Olympic team arrived for the Olympics in London 12 days late because they were still using the Julian calendar instead of the Gregorian calendar.
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    Text - Fact #353 FactRepublic.com Tom Marvolo Riddle's name had to be translated into 68 languages, while still being an anagram for " am Lord Voldemort", or something of equal meaning.
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    Text - Fact #356 FactRepublic.com Penn Jillette from Penn and Teller once painted his fingernails red as a joke in response to his mother telling him to get manicure because people would be looking at his hands. Now he always keeps one finger nail painted red in memory of his mother.
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    Clothing - Fact #351 FactRepublic.com Actor Jon Hamm taught future CO-actress, Ellie Kemper when she was in the eighth grade.
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