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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.
I went to school with a boy whose Granny served with her. She came in to the classroom one day during the schools Open History day and told us all about it.She said the Queen just sat and talked to everybody like they were her equals at meal times and was always happy in her work and never complained. She was just "Happy to do her bit". She get's her attitude from her mother, who said "I am sort of glad that Buckingham Palace got bombed as now we can look the East end in the eye". The east end of London was heavily bombed during the Blitz.
what , she didnt use her power and money to dodge the draft 5 times , ( looking at you Trump )
Princess Anne has an official military rank and uniform though? Queen Elizabeth is the only woman in the Royal Family to have served full time in the military, there have been others who served in the Reserves and hold Reserve Ranks like Princess Anne
She hasn't served in the military. It is an honorary rank, one of many that gets given to them, and means absolutely nothing. Kudos to the Queen and all and I have nothing against Princess Anne, but it is meaningless.
Load More Replies...Whilst we're on fun facts, she is the only person in the UK who isn't required to have a driving licence in order to drive a vehicle on a public road.
Wasn’t her son a pilot in the Falklands war? Weren’t her grandsons William and Harry both in the military?
I know Harry isn't part of the "royals" anymore, but he was in the armed forces wasn't he?
Yes, Anne's ranks are honorary, Edward did not complete training (read stories of some quite severe bullying of him) but the rest have served to a lesser or greater extent.
Load More Replies...Almost all of the royal men have joined the armed forces. Some of them have led them. While the Queen was the only one (apart from her husband) to serve in WWII, Prince Harry, and his dodgy uncle have both seen War (Falklands and Afghanistan). Its still expected that they do National Service. Prince William and Harry were in the Air Force, Andrew in the Navy, as was Philip. They don't wear their uniforms to weddings etc as a fashion statement.
QEII is the very best, most gracious queen that England (or the world) has ever known!
And her military service is more than the entire Trump family and their in laws combined.
Most, if not all, members of the family have served in the armed forces.
Even though he's a lying sex predator, Prince Andrew did serve in The Falkland's War, and Harry has done two active tours of Afghanistan. William used to be a search and rescue helicopter pilot for The Royal Navy,
Load More Replies...She's also a SnapOn dealer and owns a Fuel Dragster (not really...) Just being silly.... (Let's see a Kardashian or Jenner figure out which end of a screwdriver to use.... and they seem to THINK they're royalty...)
She is wanted for crimes against the people of Ireland. Hang this bitch by her entrails!
And people still have the absolute audacity to insult the royal family...
Ok, great, but now she is a racist who thinks she is better than everyone and just won't die.
Sodding off apparently isn't your strong suit.
Load More Replies...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.