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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. :(
Yes i realise the same! It is so obvious after you know.... don't know how i didn't see it before
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I lived in san francisco for many years so did robin it was common to see him out jogging by the golden gate bridge. once downtown i was going down on the elevator, i think it was the 101 california building, and who should get in but robin williams, i was amazed. it was just him and me on the elevator and i thought he would make some lighthearted joke or comment about being on the elevator together, you know owning the moment as only he could, but he was completely shut down and didn't say a word. i've heard this same story about him from several places, when he didn't have an audience he was very quiet and reserved but have three people staring at him and suddenly he came to life.
For me his passing was a “where were you when you heard” moments. I feel horrible he did so much for me but I couldn’t do anything for him.
For me it's a more selfish reason. I don't want their sadness to depress me further so I do my best to comfort everyone or just brighten their day. The more happy people there are around me, the happier I am myself.
Even love is totally selfish thing. We work around our egos. It's nice to at least being conscious about it
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Strange, but true; most of the best comedians suffer from mental disorders or abuse.
This hits man. I'm a nurse in a Covid unit, and I am so, so tired and exhausted and sad about the whole thing, but if I can make people feel better, I know eventually I'll get rest.
t pow, I hear you. The road gets so hard when you are taking care of people in physical and psychic distress. Your patients will remember your kindness forever, and if they make it through, it will get them through dark moments. I saw a great vid the other night that you would like. It was a nurse trainee who was at an event at her nursing school, and met the RN who took care of her after a terrible car crash. That male RN inspired her to go into nursing. They are both wonderful people, and I bet that you are as wonderful as they are. Be safe, and remember to take care of yourself-
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Omg, the way he worded this!! My family says that I'm "too nice" to strangers and I "try too hard" to thank people. But THIS, THIS is why...... I hate myself so much.... I always want others to feel appreciated and to not feel like I do.
You are SO not alone in this. Similar things have been said about me, many times before. Thanks for my therapist, I'm doing little better. Trying to help myself for a change. And it's really working! I hope you will be better yourself. Hugs ♥️
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I think being a comedian is what made his performance as a broken person in The Fisher King movie so strong.
Truly some of the greatest comics are those who have very tragic backgrounds. "If you laugh the world laughs with you, but cry, and you cry alone."
Robin Williams was suffering from a terrible disease that was eating away at his brain and robbing him of the most basic ability to function. He had also had been misdiagnosed. So suicide was the only way for him to end his suffeting.
Robin Williams was suffering from a terrible disease that was eating away at his brain and robbing him of the most basic ability to function. He had also had been misdiagnosed. So suicide was the only way for him to end his suffering.
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Robin Williams was such an amazing and hilarious man and he is greatly missed. His sentiment is right. I try to make the people around me laugh because I know how hard depression can be on a person.
[Pauline] I don't agree, I think it is the opposite because I am always spreading happiness and kindness around. My email signature says "it is not the years in your life that matters, it is the quality of your life that matters." RW has a dark side to him and has dim views of things.
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
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.
