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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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A mother's love. Poor kitty, I hope she recovered and lived a long happy life.
I remember reading a book about this in like 6th grade, I belive the mother cat's name was Scarlett
Yeah, her name was Scarlett. She was a hero kitty.
Load More Replies...A mother's love is like no other. I would have done the same thing over and over again without any hesitation hand down, for my kids!
Too bad I didn't have a mom like you. My "mother" was a neglectful, abusive bit(h😪
Load More Replies...That's such a lovely way to put it - I heartedly agree!!
Load More Replies...Scarlet did fully recover and was well loved and cared for until she passed away in 2008. Unfortunately, one of the kittens, a little white one, died a month after the incident from a virus. However, after 3 months of recovery, the remaining four kittens were adopted out in pairs and Scarlet herself received a loving home.
Load More Replies...Here is the rest of her awesome story. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlett_(cat)
If only people were as caring and unselfish for their own children.
Scarlett! Unfortunately, one kitten died shortly after rescue, but everyone else survived and thrived. They were also all adopted, including Scarlett, so none of them had to find abandoned buildings to live in anymore. Also, those are burns on Scarlett’s face and paws. After recovery, she had scars and bald patches from them. Her new family didn’t care, and loved her until she finally passed several years ago.
Scarlett was her name, I believe and she went on to live a good life. She was a true hero kitty :)
This cat's maternal instincts were much stronger than my own mother could ever possess.
Mine too. She hated me for being born, like it's my fault she was a horny teenager 🙄😒 It was suuuuch fun being told that by my grandmother 🥺
Load More Replies...Meanwhile she probably slapped her human as it tried to escape the fire
Yes! Unfortunately, one of the kittens died a month afterwards due to a virus, but everyone else, including Scarlet, were adopted.
Load More Replies...If you tap on those three little dots that are ONLY by your name you can edit/delete. Good luck 😻
Load More Replies...Cats will rule the world long after humans are gone. I swear, the things I've seen cats survive are stories of fantasy, but very true.
If my cat could have kittens she would definitely do the same thing!
My cat would definitely do the same thing if she could have kittens!
Bless her heart. I hope she went to a loving family that took good care of her!
Cats have 9 lives! Brave mommy exhausted 5 of hers for the precious loves of her life.
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
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.