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This Twitter Page Posts Random Interesting Facts, And Here Are 40 Of The Best Ones (New Pics)
Some of you might remember the Twitter account WTF Facts from Bored Panda's earlier post but if you aren't familiar with it yet, all you need to know is that it shares weird but interesting trivia.
From celebrity life and movies to archeological finds and history, WTF Facts covers a wide range of themes, and reassures its 130K followers that all of the information which appears on the account is fact-checked and verified.
It's been a while since our last publication about this fun online project, so we thought it's the perfect time to revisit it and help you replenish your thirst for knowledge. Enjoy!
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It was only after he was gone that I realised in every picture, even when he was smiling, his eyes were so sad. :(
At first, you might not know what to do with this information. But I have two words for you: trivia night. As Jaya Saxena wrote in GQ, no one can claim to have invented "knowing random stuff for fun," but the trend gained a lot of traction in the 1970s. While the original Jeopardy! daytime game show premiered back in 1964, the nighttime syndicated version started airing a decade later, around the time when pub trivia began to take off.
Of course, pub quiz nights have evolved and a lot of that change has been organic, the first formalized version came about in 1976, when Sharon Burns and Tom Porter peddled quizzes to pubs in southern England.
At first, the idea was to give bars a way to get people inside on slow nights, but the concept of pub quiz turned into a cultural phenomenon. In the U.S., groups like Pub Trivia USA and America's Pub Quiz organize city- and state-wide competitions, often with serious cash prizes.
"We don't want people to walk into a bar and feel like they can't contribute for a round," Cullen Shaw, co-founder of the NYC Trivia League, said. "If there's a really difficult 17th-century poetry question, maybe there's one person in the bar that knows that, but a sports question comes up after that and they let someone else answer. That's what's fun about team trivia."
But you don't even need a team to participate now. Hundreds of thousands of people log on every night to play HQ, and though the app can be glitchy at times, it hasn't stopped folks from trying to claim hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars in prize money.
I've worked with Denzel and he is such a wonderful person. Gracious. Kind. Stand up guy.
But learning obscure facts isn't just fun. It's also good for our mental health. For example, experts say that playing trivia games can provide a dopamine rush much like gambling, but without the negative effects.
"You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning,” John Kounios, Ph.D., professor of psychology and director of the doctoral program in applied cognitive and brain sciences at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline. “I think whenever you’re challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know it, you get a rush. It’s sort of like gambling.”
Dolly is so amazing. My grandsons get a book each month from her literacy program.
And well-deserved too. That man is an absolute legend. And anyone who says they can switch channels when they hear his voice is a liar. There, I said it.
Kounios said the benefits can also be similar to those of playing a video game. However, unlike gambling and video games, Kounios said trivia is not a problematic habit.
"I don't think there are any pitfalls," he said. "Like anything else that’s fun, it [just] takes up time."
This is worse than it sounds- he was in the cold and dark in the capsized boat which sunk at a depth of 30 metres. When rescued he had to stay in a decompression chamber for 3 days before he could breathe normally again.
Wish I could sprout a coupla cobras to watch my back. Especially walking home at night.
That's awesome. And I thought I was doing well learning to tie a tie on YouTube
Well, he just would go down and up again, and cash an additionnal 20k since he's paid per climb :-)
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He does not get paid $20,000 per climb. He's an employee and climbs as many as 8 towers a day to perform maintenance. This climb went viral because it was captured by a drone.
About 50 years ago one of my friends got a job with a crew that painted these towers. Two hours into his first day there was an accident where a guy fell about 100 feet & was killed. My friend quit on the spot.
I wonder how big the radius of people hearing me yelling "F***" would be.....
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At that rate, I’d be climbing it more. Unless it was just one of many I climbed.
About 7 years again I bought 3 light bulbs for $36 the box said they could last up to 12 years . So far they are still working.
If it were an LED lamp (bulb) it wouldn't have to be changed every 6 months.
LED lights also need replacement. I actually changed one of those last week... Edit: I was so concentrated that I forgot to take out my mask, hahaha RN-614cf07...8-jpeg.jpg 
That tower is probably near an airport and the light is there to ensure planes dont crash into it
It's mandatory on every tower higher than x (depends on the country), you never know when a plane/helicopter will need to fly by and if there's no light ther may be an accident
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You could pay me a million dollars and I wouldn't climb up there!
I could live in a camper at it's base and only have to work two days a year! Sign me up!
I'd do that job, but only once, and only for a thousand times as much money. And I'd need some serious medication that day, before and after.
Looks like the one out past Chamberlain. You can see it from I90 to the north. I used to go backroading out there when I lived near Mitchell. Sometimes follow the Missouri, sometimes jeep up through the plains. Nebraska, SD, Wyoming and Montana have the best back road rides in the country. Me, bandog, jeep. Go.
$3333.33 a month? Not worth it. ( maybe he can find a few more towers and moonlight.)
Not enough. Especially if Rimmer was in charge of the budget.
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Oh, that was invented from the get-go. Lightbulb manufacturers just decided that if bulbs lasted forever, they can't sell replacements, so they bought the patent and deliberately made lightbulbs blow after a rather short amount of time.
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Can anyone else do it instead of one person monopolising it? What if something happens to him?
Pretty sure they can teach someone to climb the tower and change a light bulb in 6 months
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gets you downvoted on boredpanda- nobody likes to hear about blind people getting a cheese grater for a present and then thinking it to be a violent story
What an adventure and accomplishment. Imagine who you'd be at the end? Where are my hiking boots...
If he's South Africa's most infamous robber, why does the police board say ""Fort Lauderdale"?
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Very interesting. There are some really good people in this world. We need more like them.
Very interesting. There are some really good people in this world. We need more like them.
