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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.
Especially the "cherry bomb"mufflers that roar when they race the engine. I can almost hear Shrek saying "think he's compensating for something?"
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Then the male researchers turned and looked at one another with some kind of suspicion and embarassement. "Still want to yell at us all day long, Bob ?"
Hey, I don't yell at nobody. And I drive a mini.
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I wouln't want to be that researcher who was tasked with measuring the monkey d***s
Let's be straight here, there is nothing shameful about having smaller genitals. FFS, what is the matter with us. Men should feel shame for being thieves, sexual harassers, liars, manipulators, cruel, violent and so forth. Nobody, including them, should place any value on them as a human by the size of the penis. BTW, in Ancient Greek plays a quick way to get a laugh was to depict a male character as having a huge penis because it was consider as ridiculous and laughable as showing someone with massive earlobes or nose. So the obsession with penises having to be large is a modern conceit anyway.
Go look at ancient images. Giant penises have ALWAYS been a thing.
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Just like all the yee yees around my area in trucks with lift kits and 4' tall tires "rolling coal"... Classic look at me syndrome, since they have nothing else to see...
Of course men would research this. Could've saved themselves the time simply by asking women if a small d*ck makes men overly aggressive to compensate.
No need to be a researcher for this observation: the bigger the SUV... :D
They probably weren't *really* surprised though, as testosterone is responsible for the enlargement of the hyoid "resonating chamber" (Adam's apple) so it is logical that more testosterone (generated in balls) would result in a louder screaming monkey. If you want an actually cool testicle ratio fact, look at bars. Across bat species, the bigger their balls the smaller their brains.
It's almost the same in our world with pick up trucks and flashy cars.
I'm not smiling because it's funny, I'm laughing because it's true! 🤣
Well, they can't go build penis-shaped rocket ships, so I guess they work with what they can do....
Same goes for those tools who rev their engines so loud literally the entire town can hear it.
Same could be stated about the size of jacked-up loud arsed pickups and their drivers.
We call it "Short Horse Syndrome". SHS means the smaller the horse, the "bigger" they act (up)... over-compensating. And YES, it applies to men much more than women.
I guess we haven't evolved as much as we think. ((cough cough McDonald Trumpers))
So howler monkeys are the animal equivalent to racist, queerphobic, human males?
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
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.
