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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
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
If you're going to drop an influencer from a building, please make sure not to hit anyone on the ground.
I think we should accelerate the process, and start actively culling these folks from the species.
Remove all the warning signs and we're half way there.
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Influencers are the most prolific Darwin award candidates and winners
That's what I thought too!! Seems low for the past 10 years...
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No one with any sense would do this, without making sure all safety protocols were in place, then checking them again a few more times. So it’s obvious the only sense these idiots have is non-sense. Total nonsense.
Good. Thin the herd. I'll reserve any pity I have for folks who don't do stupid s**t for "likes".
If only more of them realised most of the things they were trying to re-create were photoshopped. How freaking ironic is that. When you think of all the people who've sacrificed their lives for a reason... this is just.... I don't know.
Risking one's life for oxytocin producing 'likes' sure seems sensible...we have an over population crisis soooo....
Yes, there are some people who'd be sadly missed. They're the same people who make you reload.
It should be published when it happens as a deterrent. Young people think they’re invincible.
Yosemite National Park has seen it’s fair share, however there are also rock climbers, base jumpers and the just plain curious who die every year there as well. I believe the statistics rate The Grand Canyon as having the highest rate of deaths. Many people died before the introduction of taking selfie’s, getting “the shot” has cost people their lives for generations
I would never rejoice in a tragedy, but you play with fire you get burned
Maybe it’s Nature’s way of insuring survival of the fittest. Certainly some of these people are brain difficient.
Hopefully all - or mostly - young enough to take their idiot-genes out of the gene-pool? A gene pool which is apparently in a worse state than at any time in the last 10,000 years; possibly why these idiots are out there!
Why do people keep doing this crazy s**t, its like looking at Darwin’s theory survival of the fittest and going hold my drink
If it wasn't for risky behaviour the human race would still be hiding in caves from wild meat eating animals wondering what's over that horizon.
Teach your kid to not do stupid $hit for internet "fame" as well as encourage them to actively engage what brain cells they possess now and then. Problem solved, and no further need for the tired "But the chiiiiiildren!!" rhetoric.
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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.
