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“Orcas Are Not Whales”: 63 Fun Facts To Fill Your Head With Wonder Instead Of Dread
Basically, everyone has that one friend who cannot get through a single conversation without leaning forward and saying, "did you know...". If you don't have that friend, you are that friend, and you have found your people. You are probably insufferable at a dinner party, the MVP at quiz night, and everyone secretly wants to be you.
The Fun Facts Instagram page has the sole and admirable mission of filling your feed with exactly this kind of information. No agenda or biased breaking news, and no comment section descending into chaos. Just bite-sized facts that make you pause mid-scroll and think "wait, really?" It is doing the Lord's work in a landscape that desperately needs it, and the following is a collection of the best it has to offer.
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Upstaged75 5 days ago
In 2023 Taylor was named Iowa's Woman of the Year by USA Today and included on Black Enterprise's 40 under 40 list for "Tech & STEM" achievements. She is the founder and CEO of VariegateHealth, a medical device company. Taylor cites research linking a higher infection rate for Black people post-surgeries, where signs of infection "like redness of the skin and swelling don’t appear as easily on darker skin tones". Taylor hopes to bring her invention to low and middle-income countries where it could better benefit mortality from common infections.
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Colleen Glim 5 days ago
This is awesome! Dialysis patients could do treatment at home instead of having to go to hospital for several hours 3 or 4 times a week
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Upstaged75 5 days ago (edited)
Women are still throwing their bras? Those things are crazy expensive these days! You might as well just throw money. 😂
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Janissary35680 4 days ago
The popup picture caption says "A dog-shaped train designed to scare deer".😅
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Elladine DesIsles 5 days ago
And today, the US has Supreme Court justices who treat the Constitution like toilet paper. Single-ply toilet paper at that.
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Analyn Lahr 5 days ago
Because if his fellow Marines knew, they would have called him "Bambi" forever.
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monsieur mabel 5 days ago
......hahahaha now we all now who the annoying neighbors are in the rainforest.........
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Richard Campbell 5 days ago
I'm skeptical about the diet, but a cat living 30+ years is pretty incredible so he must have done something right. There's also an injection being developed in Japan to treat feline kidney disease which could potentially allow cats to live into their 30s. Long live the fur!
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Roxy222uk 5 days ago
Few people understand that William Golding was specifically talking about the kind of boys that are created by the public* school system in the UK, not human nature or even just boys in general. *Public schools in the UK are fee paying but were formed centuries ago when a paying for your son to go to school was so much cheaper than employing, feeding, and boarding, a personal tutor or two. Thus these schools were open to the public. Nowadays they are the old ones that all the aristocrats and upper class send their children to. Private schools are smaller, newer, and much less renowned. The government provides state schools.
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Kika Gonzalez 4 days ago
In the first place, went rip someone off because they are desperate. Horrible person
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Sara Frazer 5 days ago
Being Australia it would've made more sense for the distance to be kilometers .-. where's Fred....
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Tyranamar Seuss 4 days ago
This is interesting. When my son is upset I calm him down by rubbing a cold wash cloth on his face and neck. Works like magic.
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Sara Frazer 5 days ago
Wow, my childhood town wasn't far from Wilkeson, I had no idea! Although that's probably the most novel thing about that town...
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Bouche and Audi and Shyla, Oh My! 4 days ago
Double your flavor. Double your fun. With Doublemint, Doublemint, Doublemint gum!
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Lily bloom 5 days ago
This reminds me of the Sesame Street visit to the crayon factory. Anyone else?
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 days ago
That's because we are causing all the fecking ice to melt.
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BeesEelsAndPups 4 days ago
These still exist. My kids went to one in Philadelphia called the Schuylkill Center for Environmental Education. But it is just pre-K to Kindergarten. During the winter months the kids just had to wear quality winter gear. They only went indoors during high winds, as the school is in the woods, and they had to worry about falling branches, or during lightning storms. The kids loved it, and it stayed open during COVID, as it was all outdoors.
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Upstaged75 5 days ago
He's blind from cataracts, has lost his sense of smell, and so cannot detect food ... but he has retained excellent hearing." In January 2016, the BBC reported that Jonathan was given a new diet intended to keep him healthy and extend his life. Due to his advanced age, Jonathan spends his days doing almost everything with his mate Frederik, another male tortoise he was introduced to in 1991.
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Roxy222uk 5 days ago
When I was a kid going round to see if another child could come out to play might be referred to as knocking them up. Back then it hadn’t gained the American meaning of the phrase. I have heard of a few times when Brits used it in that way while in the US and got extremely confused responses.
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Upstaged75 5 days ago (edited)
I'm from DC so I remember the first pandas that were given to the National Zoo, Ling-Ling and Hsing-Hsing. It was a big deal to get to go and see them.
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Upstaged75 5 days ago
Wow, I must have eaten millions of these! I have strawberries almost every day.
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QuincyForrest 4 days ago
Right. Go ahead, burst my childhood anti-trauma bubble that the stinging from Merthiolate that my dad would put on my big scratches and cuts was the pain of the germs being k****d. Oh, thanks. 😁
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Nathaniel He/Him Cis-Het 5 days ago
I have heard this before but my brain refuses to believe it.
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ABC NoThirteen FUCKCENSORISM! 4 days ago
Gotta love how Americans get triggered and downvote everyone stating that it's a stretch to call a game where you carry an egg in your hand "football" 🤣🤣🤣
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LakotaWolf (she/her) 4 days ago
I'm American and I remember getting a PB&J sandwich in my lunch as a kid, every single day while I was in elementary school. I never got tired of them. My mom would switch up what chips and vegetables she put in, but always the PB&J :) I'm 44 and still love them to this day.
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General Anaesthesia 4 days ago (edited)
"The Mop Myth: A popular internet rumor claims the name was changed because of a "SpongeBoy mop", but no such cleaning product exists in trademark databases."
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Tyranamar Seuss 4 days ago
Does Bored Panda fact check anything? That should be a requirement for all their writers.
Tyranamar Seuss 4 days ago
Does Bored Panda fact check anything? That should be a requirement for all their writers.
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