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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."
But do you also have (Stupid American) tourists who are idiotic enough to get out of their cars and APPROACH THE ANIMALS?!? We do (USA) and it's insane. TV shows and movies have "taught" people that deer are "Bambi" and bears are "Yogi" or "Smokey" to the point where COMMON SENSE just utterly disappears. Locking up the people is a BRILLIANT IDEA, safer for the animals too👏😻👍
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interesting story-I was in one of these cage trucks when a lioness took against the women standing next to me. Don't know why? Smell? Began roaring at us from 6 inches away and trying to claw her through the cages. Got more and more wild until the driver decided to cancel, as we were driving out the lioness jumped on the roof and pissed all over us. I have genuinely never been so utterly intimidated. It would have killed us all in a heartbeat and my ears were ringing for hours. Plus we totally reeked. Dam those animals have a deep growl
I'm sorry to laugh, but I can just imagine you being peed on by a giant cat. :) That's the ultimate revenge - cat piss smells like the devil's butt hole!
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Uh-oh, battery is flat. Attention everyone in the back. You will all have to get out and give me a push start.
Better, uneducated, entitled tourists CANNOT get out of their cars and APPROACH THE ANIMALS for selfies, and risk causing the poor thing to be PUT-DOWN because of its reaction to the imagined threat.
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Did anyone notice those are white tigers, not lions? White tigers are no actual subspecies of tigers, they are just leucistic and (in) bred by humans. They most likely would not survive on their own without getting fed by those caged humans
"Hi! I'd like to order my human cooked medium rare. A small fries and a diet coke, please."
I would love to do this but would need a chair due to disability not comfort it would be an amazing experience
This is way better than those parks that let people drive through in a car. Always hear about people getting out of the car or rolling down the window...
Yup - there's a well known story about a family where the mom, dad, and grandmother all got out of the car in a TIGER park. (Seriously???) Thankfully they left their kid in the car with the door shut, but Grandma got killed and the other 2 were badly mauled. It all started because the mom felt nauseous and despite the giant signs everywhere saying not to, she got out of the car and got dragged off by a tiger. The other 2 followed to try and help her. SO incredibly stupid.
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"Did you lock the back door?" "ME? I thought YOU did!" ...then the truck stalls....
This is awesome. All zoos and wild life parks should be this way.
Yup, we went there, in Hangzhou (or there might be more than one). Interesting but gruesome fact is that the animals aren’t so much attracted to the people, as they are to the chicken that is brought along in a wicker basket. The chicken is being held above some kind of chute, so it starts to panic and make a lot of noise. This attracts the predators, but they never get the chicken, the staff keeps it dangled above the chute. 😖
I can just imagine being in that cage........don't stick a finger out!
Lessee...I'll have one of those...one of those...and two of those little ones...
Downvoted!. I've been to one of these and the tigers space was actually pretty decent, leopards cages were terrible thoug. The big issue, that I only learned about afterwards, is that these animals are bread for entertainment and then slaughtered for body parts and fake medicine for Chinese men with penis problems.
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
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.
