One way to make life more fulfilling and exciting is to simply have an open mind. A lifelong curiosity and an unquenchable thirst for knowledge can let you reinvent yourself repeatedly. After all, there’s always something new you can learn, even though sometimes it may be hard to find the energy and motivation to keep going.
Thanks to the Facts by Guff Instagram account, we can receive our daily dose of knowledge by reading the completely random, unexpected, and unusual tidbits of information they share every day. Whether it’s enlightening their followers about goosebumps, baby elephants, or diamond rain, it certainly triggers a desire to know more.
Bored Panda has collected some of the best facts from the page, so continue scrolling and upvote the ones you might not have known about! Although just to warn you—once you get started, you’ll probably want to keep reading until your curiosity is satisfied.
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This Instagram account was created by Guff, a data-driven content company that aspires to enlighten people with daily trivia and wisdom. They have amassed more than 825K followers by sharing different bits of information every single day. Unexpected and fun facts seem to often catch people off guard in the best possible way, and many think that it's worth their time.
Staying curious and open to new ideas is not only enjoyable but also provides us with a dopamine rush. Whether it’s learning something new about history, science, art, or even modern pop culture, there are many benefits to keeping our brain cells active.
A study by researchers at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business has found that our brains are hungry and always willing to learn new details about the world. Researchers revealed that "new information acts on the brain’s dopamine-producing reward system in the same way as money or food."
"To the brain, information is its own reward, above and beyond whether it’s useful,” co-author of the study and associate professor Ming Hsu, Ph.D. told Neuroscience News. “And just as our brains like empty calories from junk food, they can overvalue information that makes us feel good but may not be useful—what some may call idle curiosity.”
However, knowledge usually becomes useful when it’s put into context. While many think that learning cool and interesting facts is a waste of time, it’s quite the opposite. Sure, you can find out everything you need with just a few searches and clicks on hyperlinks but it won't do any good to your critical thinking skills.
Scott H. Young, author of Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition, wrote that factual knowledge determines the speed you can acquire new knowledge on a topic. "The more you know, the faster you learn." It also is an important driver of our reading comprehension and other high-level skills, for example problem-solving. When you’re reading a book, it’s much easier to understand the deeper meaning if you’re already familiar with the topic.
"You can’t reason critically or creatively without first having amassed a large amount of factual knowledge," Young explained. "This is why the existence of Google and Wikipedia doesn’t reduce the need to learn facts. Something being a Google search away doesn’t mean it’s available in the background to allow you to parse new information easily."
If you find yourself wanting to expand your mental horizons, the Wall Street Journal bestselling author suggested to simply be curious. By reading more articles and books, and by watching a variety of shows or movies, you always surround yourself with new knowledge. If it's hard to understand everything at first, don’t be discouraged and try to look it up.
Young advised not to be afraid of topics that are new to you: "Knowledge is exponential, so if you’re not used to reading something, you’ll learn a bit less. However, as you read more about it, you can read faster and smarter." So picking up a book that might be "above your level" could take longer but will get easier with time.
Just remember, we are the ones using the newly learned facts and putting them into context. So if you’re wondering whether you’re ever going to use this stuff, one day you actually might. Sometimes, our brains are capable of the most wonderful things, and bringing two completely unrelated ideas into one is certainly one of them.
I'm not a fan of his acting, but Keanu seems to be a genuinely good person.
![🐦 Cher Ami (French For “Dear Friend,” In The Masculine) Was A Male Homing Pigeon Who Had Been Donated By Britain To The U.S. Army Signal Corps In France During World War I. He Is Famous For Delivering A Message From An Encircled Battalion Despite Serious Injuries During The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, October 1918.
"Cher Ami" Was Dispatched With A Note, Written On Onion Paper, In A Canister On His Right Leg;
"We Are Along The Road Parallel [sic] To 276.4. Our Own Artillery Is Dropping A Barrage Directly On Us. For Heavens Sake Stop It."
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🇩🇪 As Cher Ami Tried To Fly Back Home, The Germans Saw Him Rising Out Of The Brush And Opened Fire. After Several Seconds, He Was Shot Down But Managed To Take Flight Again. He Arrived Back At His Loft At Division Headquarters 25 Miles (40 Km) To The Rear In Just 25 Minutes, Helping To Save The Lives Of The 194 Survivors. He Had Been Shot Through The Breast, Blinded In One Eye, And Had A Leg Hanging Only By A Tendon. Cher Ami Became The Hero Of The 77th Infantry Division. Army Medics Worked To Save His Life. When He Recovered Enough To Travel, The Now One-Legged Bird Was Put On A Boat To The United States, With General John J. Pershing Seeing Him Off.
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source: Link In Our Bio. 🔗](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CXMw05vOUwH-png__880.jpg "🐦 Cher Ami (French For “Dear Friend,” In The Masculine) Was A Male Homing Pigeon Who Had Been Donated By Britain To The U.S. Army Signal Corps In France During World War I. He Is Famous For Delivering A Message From An Encircled Battalion Despite Serious Injuries During The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, October 1918.
\"Cher Ami\" Was Dispatched With A Note, Written On Onion Paper, In A Canister On His Right Leg;
\"We Are Along The Road Parallel [sic] To 276.4. Our Own Artillery Is Dropping A Barrage Directly On Us. For Heavens Sake Stop It.\"
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🇩🇪 As Cher Ami Tried To Fly Back Home, The Germans Saw Him Rising Out Of The Brush And Opened Fire. After Several Seconds, He Was Shot Down But Managed To Take Flight Again. He Arrived Back At His Loft At Division Headquarters 25 Miles (40 Km) To The Rear In Just 25 Minutes, Helping To Save The Lives Of The 194 Survivors. He Had Been Shot Through The Breast, Blinded In One Eye, And Had A Leg Hanging Only By A Tendon. Cher Ami Became The Hero Of The 77th Infantry Division. Army Medics Worked To Save His Life. When He Recovered Enough To Travel, The Now One-Legged Bird Was Put On A Boat To The United States, With General John J. Pershing Seeing Him Off.
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True, so whatever you do don't think about how they feel when their new babies are taken away and placed in a field where they can still hear each other's cries. I live in the midst of cattle farms, and it's heartbreaking.
Charasmatic megafauna get a lot of attention. There are probably thousands of species that are less likable that are in the same situation.
My kid goes to a Montessori school where students clean up everyday. I think it's a good idea - helps kids feel responsible for their school, which helps them become responsible citizens.
In addition to what you said, I myself think it also teaches kids that everyone is equal and not one person is better than the other.
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In Japan there is a very strong sense of communal space. Children are taught from an early age to care for their environment. When kids have to clean up after themselves, it makes them much more conscious of making a mess. This is why Japan is very clean in general. Also why you see Japanese fans cleaning up stadiums after international matches.
It's also the emphasis on group as opposed to the individual. In the US, it's all about "my" rights and "my" freedoms.
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EXCELLENT IDEA FOR UNITED STATES SCHOOLS. MOST KIDS NOW HAVE A SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT AND ZERO MANNERS.
What do you mean now? Have you seen their parents?
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Why aren't these kind of principles woven into our American school system?
Because our culture and society i.e. the "system" emphasizes the "individual". Japan's culture and society emphases "group." US teachers would be happy to not be cussed and assaulted by the students and their parents.
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Yes in my country too ( Bhutan) schools are clean by student and also we don’t have gardeners, We plant ourselves as a part of school curriculum.
Another reason is that they hire people to pick it up.
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Great idea in theory. Unfortunately, the kids aren't actually taught how to clean, just told to do it. I caught my students trying to sweep AFTER mopping. They also weren't given anything except the mop, no bucket and no way to squeeze the water out. So dirty mops just pushed the dirt around. I did ask the kids if they were ever taught how to clean, no. The teachers just told them to clean. The bathrooms were cleaned with water by a "professional" who also just wiped things down and sprayed off the toilets and floor. I saw the same dirty spot in the bathroom everyday I worked there.
When Newt Gingrich pointed this out, and implied that it could make sense for USA public schools too, (when he was running in the '08 GOP Primary), people vilified him as 'wanting to force poor kids to be janitors.' Of course he had said this should apply to all kids, at all income levels. What an evil idea that was though!....When Newt said it, and not someone from Japan.
When a kid cleans, they are less likely to mess it up to clean again . . .
I work as a janitor at my school, we have janitors to sanitize the school and clean up chemicals and glass but the high school students employed by the school clean it after school for 2 hours and are payed for it
They don't use any cleaning supplies. Just water. It isn't really cleaned...
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It's definitely a good idea not to use janitorial work as a punishment.
At my school, we volunteer to clean classrooms to get out of doing work Lol
And they are happy and in great shape. Discipline is needed more than anything.
Education like this should be a home school subject before the get into schools!
they also take turns serving lunch to each other too. it is common for CEOs to be seen cleaning their company windows, floors etc. alongside their employees. needs to be mandatory alongside decent living wage.
Contributing to their community. I have no problem with it but the unemployed janitors are PISSED. *just kidding*
Can you imagine the screaming from American parents if their public school kids had to do this? Especially in the red states?
I remember sanding down our desks at the end of the year: the smell of dry sawdust always takes me back.
A lot of parents these days do nothing to teach their children anything, these schools are fixing the problem
Meanwhile in a high school in Great Falls Montana, they had to close a bathroom this winter, because students had taken to vandalizing it to become TikTok stars. We have so many great teens, but some ... aargh.
i think this should be the case in all schools. it teaches children how to be responsible along wtih many other things. however, sadly i think it's too late to introduce it most places, as i can imagine a lot of parents would react with 'you can't make my darling angel do manual labour! it's inhumane!'
This should be everywhere, well hire janitors too because they can do maintenance and give people jobs. But the kids should definitely clean up everywhere.
As we should. I have cleaned more glue and forgotten snacks out of desks in the classrooms I Was assigned to. I started a wall of shame for all the pencils which had their erasers eaten, the toys who had no tail or face, it was brutal what a class can do to the bullion dollars spent by teachers to make learning fun. I was able to get to the kid about to unscrew his laptop but wasn't able to save the pile another one sat on.
That would be an awesome idea to introduce this here: now we have lots of kids who march for less pollution and keeping the world clean... but mostly forget to apply that in their own real life. (I'm talking natural parks, skatepark, open air concerts, ... or in worst case : on the train after an organised march for less pollution).
It's true, and the teachers help clean as well. The school I work at has two groundskeepers that tend more to construction, landscaping and snow removal, etc. But the indoor cleaning and occasional floor waxing is all done by students and faculty. It's a good system but the downside is that it's one more thing for faculty to take on, since Japanese teachers are also guidance counsellors, coaches and administrators; these duties are also not outsourced to anyone else specifically brought in, so their number of duties the average teacher is tasked with besides actual teaching can be overwhelming and really stressful. But for the students, it's a productive and healthy thing.
this sounds nice, sure, but if you remove the janitors, you remove jobs from the table
This just makes too much sense, I can see the parents of entitled kids in the us now if they did that in the us
You mean like every art, woodshop and home ec class I've ever attended in the US? We had janitors for the halls but cleaned up messes we made. I dont think you really want students maintaining and operating the floor buffing machine. Its like a miniature Zamboni.
I love this. I had a few teachers when I was little, ask for help cleaning up the last class of the day. There were always at least a couple of kids who stayed and helped.
Your school don't employ janitors to teach discipline, mine is because the lack of fund. We are not the same
We should have it in Our Schools here in Denmark …. Maybe the Kids would learn to clean up after them self,take care more of the things…. At Home & Out….
Ya no thanx .. kids already have a lot on their plate . They don’t need this as well .. should kids have chores ? Absolutely, should kids have to help tidy up? For sure.. should they be cleaning toilets and bathrooms , disinfecting , emptying garbages and recycling , cleaning up another kids puke or blood etc ?? No.. leave it to the professionals .. while I admit I don’t know anything about this or how Japan does things ir even if this is true ( don’t feel like googling) this just reeks of not letting kids be kids and instead giving them adult responsibilities
They do clean the bathrooms. They eat their lunch in their classroom instead of a cafeteria and IIRC they take turns serving the lunch and taking the dishes back to the kitchen.
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![🚭 The Plans Include The Gradual Increase Of The Legal Smoking Age, Which Could Extend To A Ban On The Sale Of Cigarettes And Tobacco Products To Anyone Born After 2004, Making Smoking Effectively Illegal For That Generation.
also Under Consideration Was A Significant Reduction In The Level Of Nicotine Allowed In Tobacco Products, Prohibiting Filters, Setting A Minimum Price For Tobacco, And Restricting The Locations Where Tobacco And Cigarettes Can Be Sold.
“We Need A New Approach,” Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall Said, Announcing The Changes. “About 4,500 New Zealanders Die Every Year From Tobacco, And We Need To Make Accelerated Progress To Be Able To Reach That Goal [of Smokefree 2025]. Business-As-Usual Without A Tobacco Control Program Won’t Get Us There.”
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🇳🇿 The Proposals Were Welcomed By A Number Of Public Health Organizations. “This Proposal Goes Beyond Assisting People To Quit,” Cancer Society Chief Executive Lucy Elwood Said In A Statement. She Noted That The Number Of Tobacco Retailers Was Four Times Higher In Low-Income Communities, Where Smoking Rates Were Highest.
“These Glaring Inequities Are Why We Need To Protect Future Generations From The Harms Of Tobacco,” Elwood Said. “Tobacco Is The Most Harmful Consumer Product In History And Needs To Be Phased Out.”
shane Kawenata Bradbrook, A Long- Term Advocate For Smoke-Free Māori Communities, Said:
“For Too Long The Tobacco Industry Has Been Addicting Our People, Fleecing Them Of Their Money Before We Have To Bury Them In Urupa [burial Grounds] All Over This Land. I Am Looking Forward To Truly Making This A Sunset Industry In This Corner Of The World.”
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source: Link In Our Bio. 🔗](https://www.boredpanda.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/CWizmzxNQCs-png__880.jpg "🚭 The Plans Include The Gradual Increase Of The Legal Smoking Age, Which Could Extend To A Ban On The Sale Of Cigarettes And Tobacco Products To Anyone Born After 2004, Making Smoking Effectively Illegal For That Generation.
also Under Consideration Was A Significant Reduction In The Level Of Nicotine Allowed In Tobacco Products, Prohibiting Filters, Setting A Minimum Price For Tobacco, And Restricting The Locations Where Tobacco And Cigarettes Can Be Sold.
“We Need A New Approach,” Associate Health Minister Dr Ayesha Verrall Said, Announcing The Changes. “About 4,500 New Zealanders Die Every Year From Tobacco, And We Need To Make Accelerated Progress To Be Able To Reach That Goal [of Smokefree 2025]. Business-As-Usual Without A Tobacco Control Program Won’t Get Us There.”
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🇳🇿 The Proposals Were Welcomed By A Number Of Public Health Organizations. “This Proposal Goes Beyond Assisting People To Quit,” Cancer Society Chief Executive Lucy Elwood Said In A Statement. She Noted That The Number Of Tobacco Retailers Was Four Times Higher In Low-Income Communities, Where Smoking Rates Were Highest.
“These Glaring Inequities Are Why We Need To Protect Future Generations From The Harms Of Tobacco,” Elwood Said. “Tobacco Is The Most Harmful Consumer Product In History And Needs To Be Phased Out.”
shane Kawenata Bradbrook, A Long- Term Advocate For Smoke-Free Māori Communities, Said:
“For Too Long The Tobacco Industry Has Been Addicting Our People, Fleecing Them Of Their Money Before We Have To Bury Them In Urupa [burial Grounds] All Over This Land. I Am Looking Forward To Truly Making This A Sunset Industry In This Corner Of The World.”
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I'm always torn when it comes to things like this. On the one hand, I don't feel like the government should tell us "you can't do that because it isn't good for you". Your not my mom, back off. Sugar isn't good for me either. The last person I dated wasn't good for me. On the other hand, I'm all for the government telling us it's the law to wear a seatbelt, or that my doctor can't smoke crack before he operates on me. And this, Ladies and Gentlemen, is why I am not a politician. Glad I'm not the one who has to make the decisions on these kinds of things!
I remember watching this on tv with my dad before he passed away. We were so happy for him!
Then I pity those who don't. I have no emotional stability at all
Fun fact: Men who kiss other peoples' wifes befor going to work live an average of 5 years shorter.
That's so sad ☹️. Glad they managed to convince her not to. Not just because she's a celeb, but because she's a human
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Several of these so-called "facts" are misleading, unverified rumours, or downright false. Looks like Guff is not a source you can trust. But that might not be surprising coming from a content company that sells "hyper-engagement" and churning out content that is primarily designed to "drive human emotions." 👎
I very much welcome this addition. Extra, easy to access context is always a boon.
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I would say most of these "facts" are full of crap! They have no proof of what they are saying and most of them are so ridiculous that I had to stop scrolling.
But i find the news here interesting and sometimes double check on other sites to verify it if its legit
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This is the type of post I like... I get so disappointed when the title of a post is awesome but then you open it and it's nothing but words... pictures add a little pizazz especially when it refers to a person or place so that way you can get a better idea of what it looks like...
This was surprisingly sad, but I'm happy to have seen it. If you don't tear up Googling "Pocho crocodile funeral", you're not really living.
In scrolling through answers a lot of down votes were given if the interesting facts were not interesting and it was so stated!
Several of these so-called "facts" are misleading, unverified rumours, or downright false. Looks like Guff is not a source you can trust. But that might not be surprising coming from a content company that sells "hyper-engagement" and churning out content that is primarily designed to "drive human emotions." 👎
I very much welcome this addition. Extra, easy to access context is always a boon.
Load More Replies... I would say most of these "facts" are full of crap! They have no proof of what they are saying and most of them are so ridiculous that I had to stop scrolling.
But i find the news here interesting and sometimes double check on other sites to verify it if its legit
Load More Replies... This is the type of post I like... I get so disappointed when the title of a post is awesome but then you open it and it's nothing but words... pictures add a little pizazz especially when it refers to a person or place so that way you can get a better idea of what it looks like...
This was surprisingly sad, but I'm happy to have seen it. If you don't tear up Googling "Pocho crocodile funeral", you're not really living.
In scrolling through answers a lot of down votes were given if the interesting facts were not interesting and it was so stated!
