50 Bits Of Information From The ‘Unusual Facts’ FB Page That May Raise Eyebrows
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Hungry for some interesting bits of information? You're in the right place! Today, we have prepared for you a list of quite unbelievable and amazing facts you may not have heard about. The range of topics is wide, so we believe anyone can find some knowledge that matches their interests.
The Facebook page 'Unusual Facts' is dedicated to collecting the most fascinating information and sharing it with their community. Scroll down to find out which facts impressed us the most that we just had to feature them in this post, so you can check them out yourself!
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Bored Panda got in touch with Hazel Lindsey, the founder of SwH Learning, an online educational platform for students aged 11-18 with a passion for all things science- and math-related. We were curious if the tutor could share an unusual or lesser-known scientific fact from her area of expertise that has the potential to amaze or intrigue our readers. Hazel said: “There are more than 60,000 miles of blood vessels (veins, arteries, capillaries, etc.) in the human body. If they were laid end-to-end, that's enough to wrap around the Earth at least twice.”
We were curious if Lindsey ever encountered any scientific mysteries or enigmas that still puzzle the scientific community. Hazel provided us with some insights about the teenage stage in human life: “We're still not completely sure why humans seem to be the only species that go through a teenage stage in their life. One of my lecturers at Cambridge University, Dr. David Bainbridge, wrote a book on this (Teenagers: A Natural History). He believes that adolescence evolved between 800,000 and 300,000 years ago, extremely close to a great leap forward in human brain size when our ancestors’ brains grew to the size of those of modern humans. However, there is also a large reorganization of the brain during the teenage years, as it doesn't grow much between the ages of 12 and 20, so it could be that the teenage years allow our brain to develop more than other species.”
What happens to the sunflowers after they die? If they're storing radioactive contaminants in their stems and leaves, do they need to be stored somewhere after they die to prevent the contaminants from leaching back into the soil? Is there a science panda who knows?
We also wanted to know what areas of science or scientific theories have been widely misunderstood or misrepresented and would benefit from clarification. The founder of SwH Learning shared with us: “This is a tricky one! In my experience, it's not necessarily certain scientific theories that have been misrepresented, but more how science in general is reported in the press, on social media, etc. Everything is geared towards clicks, meaning scientific advances and breakthroughs are often hyped up well beyond what they actually mean in a practical sense.”
In Australia, we use horses instead of opossums in the production of snake antivenins. Rabbits and sheep are also sometimes used.
Good. That makes a lot more sense than the usual story of fish eggs hitching a ride on the legs of the ducks. PS. Tomato seeds remain alive when eaten by humans.
Finally, Hazel added: “The discovery of a new compound that could potentially be used to fight cancer 15-20 years in the future, for example, will be revealed as a miracle cure on an Instagram post, leading to a lot of false hope and skepticism about science in general when inevitably nothing more is heard for a long time.”
Perhaps Bruce Lee was indeed a dragon reincarnate and a being that was out of this world. A legendary man, mad respect *bows*
For similar reasons, the Chinese can read texts that are two thousand years old. Despite the profusion of mutually-incomprehensible spoken dialects, written Chinese has remained exceptionally stable. For comparison, The Canterbury Tales are six hundred years old and are all but unintelligible to an unprepared reader.
Gosh, I hope the love letter was addressed to her mom...
PBS American Experience did a great documentary on her. She's often portrayed as a butch woman, but she was extremely ladylike and had a penchant for dressing well and being well groomed. She married a man who was pretty great. Considering Victorian morays about women, he was a chill guy.
If only his cousin was called Roll...just so you could have Rock and Roll
Yet we have local governments who are putting in more restrictions, more lights causing more pollution and claim they do it for green issues. How can closing a section of road 200 meters long causing vehicles to drive an extra 3 KM environmental, especially when it now goes through a residential area and held up at several junctions.
They make most of their money selling gifts (like mugs and t-shirts), coins, stamps, and peerages (you too can become a baron for $50).
Interesting thing: All branches of a tree bound together would be as thick as the stem. Or to say it in other words: If a branch branches into two other branches, those other branches would each be 50% as thick as the original branch
If this is true, no man anywhere gets to tell a woman she should smile more ever again.
Well, technically everything is edible, it's just that some things are edible more than once.
If someone is interested, I can sell it to you... some assembly required after delivery of the parts
I'm so glad Disney's Finding Nemo wasn't accurate. That would be a whole different kind of movie.
I think it's enough to cut down on meat consumption, there are so many tasty options that don't require meat, we maybe consume more than we need to but our taste buds will rebel if we try to cut it out altogether. I just try for meat free days or 2 out of 3 main meals being meat free, I don't think I could stick to much more than that, at least right now, maybe I'm getting there slowly.
I have been fully vegetarian for 7 years, (I am 14). You get used to it, there are lots of other foods out there and I have never regretted it. I think it is important, but it is different for everyone. I don’t judge people who make different choices than me.
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14 years ago I went vegan for 6 months just to try it out. I conceived my daughter toward the end of this time. One of my first clues, a day or two before I took a pregnancy test, was a strong craving for BBQ ribs…. So I got my ribs and gobbled them up!
For most people It is possible to eat a healthy, nutritionally complete vegetarian diet, it does take some extra planning and is more work than being an opportunistic omnivore. I agree with Libstak, for most people, a goal of less meat is more attainable and still has health and sustainably benefits
Big shock - I've had vegetarian meals and never felt full (or satisfied might be a better word) afterward. I could never make the switch away from meat.
What did you use as a protein source? I know that some people who try a vegetarian meal, simply make their normal meal but without meat or with a way too small portion of protein source, without realizing that this way it would never be filling enough.
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I've been on a vegetarian diet (pescatarian - I eat fish, as well as eggs and dairy) as an experiment to see if it reduces inflamation. Recommended by another person in my martial arts classes, it appears that it does. Only a sample of two, but both of us found about the 2.5-3 month mark, we were less sore and recovered quicker after classes. I went from taking 2 or 3 classes a week back up to the 4-5 I'd been taking a year or so earlier. I'd been questioning whether I'd be able to test for my second-degree black belt or not; It's back to looking like it's possible again. I'm 68 years old, by the way. Netflix has a show about Olympic-level athletes, MMA fighters, and others who are vegetarian and/or vegan - quite an interesting watch; search for "vegetarian MMA" and you should find it - obviously, my diet hasn't made me any less lazy or I'd look up the name... :) There are many serious studies (*many*) demonstrating that chronic inflamation is connected to a lot of diseases.
Chronic inflammation is part of mine; personally, I used to thrive on a vegetarian diet. Then I got ill, and now I am caught up in a situation where I am damned if I do, damned if I don't. Vegetarian would help my kidney failure and possibly reduce inflammation; unfortunately I do not process most of the vegetarian protein options correctly due to gastrointestinal issues related to my illness. Go figure.
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Most of them make the error of not researching the body's needs well enough and end up with 'cravings' that they can't accommodate. I've been down this path several times.
And 84% of them haven't watched a documentary on the industrial meat industry.
I have, it hasn't changed anything. People need to stop acting like a video will change my life.
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I'm no example of a healthy diet but extremes are dangerous. Many studies are merging now on the long term effects of not easting meat and The worse part is the cult following these diets have. They are as bad as Musk or Apple fanboys.
The cultish following of some diets are really getting out of hands these days. However, any diet can be pushed into extreme and turned unhealthy. Veganism has probably the worst reputation of those and it can be limited even more like eating only raw food. But being vegetarian is hardly limiting at all, and it kinda irritates me that it gets bad reputation because those few lunatic preachers who try to turn the whole word into vegans.
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Haven’t eaten meat for 48 years. Don’t see it as food anymore. I love animals too much.
It's been 8 years, with so many new plant-based options all the time :-)
To each their own. I became vegetarian for environmental reasons when I was 18, so 48 years ago, and still am vegetarian. I went vegan for about a decade but feel better if I eat yogurt a few times a week. I never liked meat even as a kid and have never missed it. But everyone is different and some people really love eating meat (everyone else in my family, for example). Eat what you like and enjoy!
I could never be a vegetarian. My husband swears I'm trying to make the chicken an endangered species.
27 years and counting and the thought and smell of meat makes me literally want to vomit. If you're doing it because you really feel it and believe it, anything's possible.
You only need 3.5 ounces (raw weight - cooked it's 2.5 ounces) of meat per day. If most of us stuck to that, that'd be progress.
I've been a vegetarian for 23 years and I've never looked back.
I’d be interested in this stat with an age breakdown. I suspect it’s much lower for people who convert in their 20s, and much higher for those who convert in their 50s. I converted in my late 40s and felt great for 2 years, then started to have memory issues. Introducing fish fixed the problem. The younger you start, the easier for your body to adapt to new sources of nutrients.
I find that in the summer, when it's hot, it's really easy for me to go vegetarian. In the fall and winter, though, I get meat cravings.
The Mediterranean used to be a lot shallower because of ocean level decrease during the last ice age. The Strait of Gibraltar is high enough that when the water level in the Atlantic dropped enough, it cut the Mediterranean off. There are entire villages that are now underwater. When the ice age ended and sea levels began rising again, the Mediterranean began refilling. There was likely a point at which this caused catastrophic flooding, and this is a very good potential source for the biblical flood story.
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Why don’t you just use the website? In 2-3 years of near daily use, I’ve never had an issue other than a couple of brief server errors. If it’s to avoid the adverts they aren’t that intrusive (for me).
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Gabija Palsyte - most of your posts and your profile are broken links for app users.
Y'all- it says I got an upvote on my comment but I don't see it- what dose it say again lmao
I cannot believe that humans is the only species that goes through a troublesome teenage phase. If you go to a catshelter you will undoubtedly notice that a lot of owners "have developed allergy to cats" when their cat is 9-11 months old! I don't believe that, because I have had kittens growing up, and noticed the desire to get rid of that little monster when they are about that age. Fortunately they become sweet little kitties again at about a year.
Why don’t you just use the website? In 2-3 years of near daily use, I’ve never had an issue other than a couple of brief server errors. If it’s to avoid the adverts they aren’t that intrusive (for me).
Load More Replies... Gabija Palsyte - most of your posts and your profile are broken links for app users.
Y'all- it says I got an upvote on my comment but I don't see it- what dose it say again lmao
I cannot believe that humans is the only species that goes through a troublesome teenage phase. If you go to a catshelter you will undoubtedly notice that a lot of owners "have developed allergy to cats" when their cat is 9-11 months old! I don't believe that, because I have had kittens growing up, and noticed the desire to get rid of that little monster when they are about that age. Fortunately they become sweet little kitties again at about a year.
