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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
So the solution to global warming is to bring back Gengis Khan. Go Gengis, Go! /s
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I seriously doubt carbon levels from human activity were of any significance in regards to global climate in the early 13th century. And for the most part, the vast areas Mongol conquests wiped people off from were not farmland but grassland - rather empty spaces from the start, then. Basically the Mongols were looking for more and more pasture for their sheep herds, enhancing their nomadic way of life all around, while fighting anyone who could threaten it.They killed so many people because they sacked and destroyed the big cities of the mighty Asian empires they had as their neighbours, but I think it wasn't very long until the populations from these regions came back to normal under their rule afterwards.
Right. Like, what environmental scientists were evaluating and documenting the Earth’s carbon levels in the 13th century?
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I think this would be hard to pinpoint, as the Black Death hit around 1300, almost 100 years after his death.
Well, he also, shall we say, spread his seed far and wide. So far and wide in fact that there’s a good chance we all, or at least a majority of us, may have some of his DNA.
It's also said that everyone on Earth has some genealogical connection to him, because he fathered so many children.
I believe he also did his part to repopulate the region with his own offspring.
Maybe this should be done again.... start with the fools that stormed the Capitol... Then do the fools in Texas who want to legislate women's bodies and the border patrol personnel who think they're herding cattle...
Covid is helping, pity its killing innocent people not just antivaxxers
Just goes to show how over-populated the earth is. When the world was in lockdown, the skies became blue and the waterways ran clear. Now it is all back to pollution. We have destroyed the earth and nature is fighting back.
Maybe that's why Covid is killing so many people.......fighting world warming!
So that's their Plan with this pandemic thing..... (Dark Humor, refer to #25) (Thanks for that idea, Steve :))
His DNA is present in about 16 million men (as of 2003), so maybe it evens out. ?
And now, big pharma, with china, gates, and dr faucki are trying it again...upping the ante
Genghis Khan was the original Thanos. Both of them knew that overpopulation would destroy the planet. And look, it is!
Kind of like Thanos- You can almost see the benefit, makes you start rethinking things
He also repopulated it. The majority of people on the planet have some of his DNA.
Maybe he wasn’t a blood thirsty tyrant but a very early environmentalist
No way this is true. There weren't even that many people in all of Asia and Europe combined at the time.
Research your "facts" before you blabber nonsense. According to "Demographics of Europe" on Wikipedia, there were 40 millions in 1000CE and 78 millions in 1500CE, so by linear interpolation you get 55 to 57 millions in 1200CE to 1230CE when Genghis Khan ruled. Same goes for Asia: 183 millions in 1000CE, 284 in 1500CE, linear interpolation gives 223 (1200CE) to 229 (1230CE) millions, so we're at 278 to 288 millions combined. To back up the data, a paper from the university of Toronto states 40 million in 1000CE to "80, maybe 100 million" in 1300CE in Europe, so it'd be even more. I'm not wasting more time to find more backup data for Asia.
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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.
