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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.
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Buren 3 years ago
Yes, because they are genuine, loving, not trying to screw you, to scam you, they are grateful, lovable, love you back unconditionally..
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
If you take a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principle difference between a dog and a man. - Mark Twain
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A B C 3 years ago
Well, if a dog is an ásshole, it's a human's fault. If a human is an ásshole, it's a human's fault. Case closed.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
Not at all. That's only true in the western world. I seriously doubt it is true in the developing world. Observe: https://www.latimes.com/world/la-xpm-2012-dec-27-la-fg-wn-southafrica-zuma-dogs-20121227-story.html
Tami 3 years ago
In Korea, dogs are mistreated before being slaughtered for Boknal, “dog eating days." The Koreans who do this believe the meat is better after the animal has suffered.
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Analyn Lahr 3 years ago
Any movie where an animal is a major player I need spoilers before I can watch it. If that dog/cat/horse/whatever dies, I can't handle it.
Carrie de Luka 3 years ago
One of my dogs hates black spaniels... 🤷 Can only assume he was attacked by one maybe. He's a scarred and damaged little rescue and black himself!
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Mewregaurd Hissyfit 3 years ago
Intelligent, civilized humans have more compassion and love for their pets of any kind, than they do for other humans.
Vicky De Raedemaeker 3 years ago
In horror movies i hate it when the dog or cat dies, people ok but no animals please
Gabrielle braswell 3 years ago
That's so tru im cuddling my little 1lb Chihuahua she is my baby
Fiona Autiero 3 years ago
I wonder why ……….not Us humans don’t deserve dogs, with their unconditional and never ending love and loyalty
Courtney Lunsford 3 years ago
Dogs are generally innocent. People can be vicious a**holes though.
Nubis Knight 3 years ago
Cause we bred dogs to affect us more and more. It's puppy dog eyes and not baby eyes for a reason. So cute! ♡
Giles McArdell 3 years ago
Well D'uh! I mean look at those eyes, we can't make our eyes do that.
ZAPanda 3 years ago
Also not true in far east in some places apparently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lychee_and_Dog_Meat_Festival
Cat Crazy Lady 3 years ago
I will not look at that. But you tell us about it in a respectful way. Thank you for that, seriously. :)
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Bobbie Meyers 3 years ago
Because people suck. Even those you are supposed to be able to trust... family...will screw you over in a heartbeat, the "good" Christians included. Dogs never screw you over!
Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
That's not true, animals suffer immensely at the hands of evil people, and those who are apathetic to pain and suffering of other sentient beings are as evil. This is very reason for violence and injustice toward other humans. There will be NO human rights WITHOUT animal rights!!! Period.
Cynthia Marrs 3 years ago
Of course they do. Dogs lack guile, ambition, greed, and other nasty human traits.
Sasquatch The Almighty 3 years ago
That's because we suck, and they don't. Dogs are superior beings, we only WISH we could be as wonderful as them
Jose Antonio 3 years ago
i am guilty of this. do i feel bad for this? no not really...have you met many people? if you have then you can understand this logic.
Palo Sulek 3 years ago
I'm sick of this saying. I have no empathy for assholic humans and there is no assholic dog so that's simply why I personally have less empathy for humans
Dragonlady 3 years ago
Obvious. I love my cat more than my own sister. My sister is abusive bty I'm not being rude.
Dawn Thomas-Cameron 3 years ago
Dogs have more empathy for other dogs than some humans have for other humans.
Mewton’s Third Paw 3 years ago
How the fück is that a fact and if it were true, so what? We aren’t required to be speciesist. You people don’t seem to give a damn about animals you can’t keep as pets.
Bob D. Lin Quint 3 years ago
Because humans can understand what's going on, do stupid s**t all day erry day, suffer the consequences of their own actions, and can help themselves out of their circumstances. Generally speaking of course. Where as animals are generally innocent cause they're too dumb to be evil.
Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Animals are intelligent and aren't evil despite that.
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Yeah because all dogs are very good bois and girls, but people? Well, people s**k.
GoddessOdd 3 years ago
I've always known this about myself. Kill all the humans you want in this book, but harm an animal and you're dead to me.
Chris Scritchfield 3 years ago
Isn't it for animals in general some plants too and maybe a few rocks........
Lily Mae Kitty 3 years ago
I have empathy for animals in general more than I have for people. people suck and they act that way on purpose.
Davo gifman 3 years ago
Yeah I don't think th that's anything new. I'll introduce myself to any dog I can, but people yeah not so much.
Patricia Stilwell 3 years ago
Of course we do. No dog has EVER cheated, betrayed, littered, destroyed the environment, talked nasty, put down anyone and a host of other evils that humans do. We don't deserve the love &loyalty they freely give us EVEN when some humans have done THEM wrong.
Katherine Boag 3 years ago
Just think about police dogs. Objectively, theyve been trained to seriously injure humans, and the police have less oversight and fewer restrictions on using them than they do firearms or tasers. But 99% of people see a police dog and go awwwww
Morgan Merrill-McNeal 3 years ago
I know that if I had to either save a dog or a person, I would probably pick the dog. Please don't downvote, just my opinion.
Mark Kelly 3 years ago
Because dogs don't screw you over and can't defend themselves as much as humans
jk nbt 3 years ago
dogs give unconditional love.... humans love with strings attached... or not at all... humans can love unconditionally, but people consider the person who does this as very shady or as someone with something terribly wrong with them... never as a human with something terribly right with them.... sooo sad...
Tracy Sellars 3 years ago
That's because dogs are kind souls looking for love. The human race is but a virus on the earth, destroying it slowly and painfully.
Ray Martin 3 years ago
As generalisations go, this is possibly the most ridiculously egregious one I've ever seen. Just add the word "some" at the beginning, unless your study tested more than 7.75 billion people.
Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Instead of "some" I would say "Except for few" people who are genuinely good.
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liam mckirdy 3 years ago
i mean if youve ever seen a movie were a dog dies then you care more about that then the humans dying
Sue Sanders 3 years ago
For good reason; dogs are loyal and loving and dependable - with exceptions, of course, but is generally true, but not generally for humans.
Evelyn Haskins 3 years ago
No No, no no. Some people maybe, but many many people are truly horrible to dogs. Electric collars, prong collar, being shut up day in and day out in a concretes yard, or kept in crates. Belting, baits. Fed utter rubbish, dropped off unwanted either at the refuge or worse just on a back street somewhere :-(
Rachel Arteiro 3 years ago
They have less chance of being attacked by a dog than a human as well
Sharon Madsen 3 years ago
For good reason, I think. Dogs deserve it more than a lot of humans.
Roxy Eastland 3 years ago
I think that humans find they can see dogs as 'blameless' whereas with humans they feel room to wonder 'did they bring this on themselves?' 'or have they done things in life that mean they deserve this?' I find it rather sad
Steve Fischer 3 years ago
If we only cared about each other as we care about our pets what a wonderful world this would be
Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
Steve, you obviously do not realize how many animals are mistreated, abused, tortured, and murdered. The link between animal abuse and violence among people is undeniable.
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WholesomeArmyweeb 3 years ago
Maybe bc it Is like a child of our own to nurse and care for, yet we can relate to it and feel comfort to the level of the age of a human we are comfortable with
LetsGoBrandon 3 years ago
Because most dogs aren't inherently evil, selfish, controlling, and power hungry!
Luis Hernandez Dauajare 3 years ago
Serial killer, rapist and paedophile Peter Kürten, known as "the vampire of Düsseldorf", actually said: "A thousend times, I would hit a man with my car rather than a dog".
Christina Uhlir 3 years ago
I know, heard about, many non-white people and they were so abusive to animals and other humans, including of their own race.
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Potato 3 years ago
You do not deserve empathy. So judgmental and hateful, and yet you expect to be liked more than a dog who loves unconditionally? Lol nah.
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"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.
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
I'm not a fan of his acting, but Keanu seems to be a genuinely good person.
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Ray Martin 3 years ago
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.
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
Charasmatic megafauna get a lot of attention. There are probably thousands of species that are less likable that are in the same situation.
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
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.
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“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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“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:
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Sarah 3 years ago
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!
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linlintong 3 years ago
I remember watching this on tv with my dad before he passed away. We were so happy for him!
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Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
Then I pity those who don't. I have no emotional stability at all
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Cactus McCoy 3 years ago
Fun fact: Men who kiss other peoples' wifes befor going to work live an average of 5 years shorter.
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Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
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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troufaki13 3 years ago
My cat also knows when I'm getting back home and I don't always come home at the same time :)
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
He should have stipuated that no one else would ever play the role.
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Chris Hooley 3 years ago
Ok, so what is it in Sprite that is the solvent and can we ingest it without having to drink 83 teaspoons of sugar?
#56
Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
Ok paw patrol must be shown all day everyday and this day will be named Turkey Dinosaur day
#57
Some Cool Guy 3 years ago
Mickey went to a lawyer asking for a divorce. The lawyer said "Mickey you can't ask for a divorce because Minnie is silly". Mickey replied "No I said she was f*****g Goofy".
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Monique Heemskerk 3 years ago
This is not true. They are registered as a charity and yes they do donate some money but it's just to avoid corporate taxes.
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Very Bored Panda 3 years ago
Too much to worry about. E= less taxes and this country needs mc2
#81
Call Me Mars 3 years ago
I knew this before I read this post, and whenever I see a murder of crows I love the eerie vibe they give off.
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
I'm just waiting for the news to break that octopi are from another planet.
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Tenacious Squirrel 3 years ago
Sad. The amount of plastic crap on this planet, and the constant demand for more, is a disgrace.
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Luther von Wolfen 3 years ago
George Washington grew hemp in his garden. It's a related plant, but not the same.
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Jayne Kyra 3 years ago
No, he didn´t. Gotta love these "fact" posts https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/stallone-keep-rocky-turtles/
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Kesam 3 years ago
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." 👎
Jon S. 3 years ago
I very much welcome this addition. Extra, easy to access context is always a boon.
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Gianna 3 years ago
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.
RebeccaRabel 3 years ago
But i find the news here interesting and sometimes double check on other sites to verify it if its legit
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NevadaJo 3 years ago
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...
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
In scrolling through answers a lot of down votes were given if the interesting facts were not interesting and it was so stated!
Kesam 3 years ago
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." 👎
Jon S. 3 years ago
I very much welcome this addition. Extra, easy to access context is always a boon.
Load More Replies... Gianna 3 years ago
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.
RebeccaRabel 3 years ago
But i find the news here interesting and sometimes double check on other sites to verify it if its legit
Load More Replies... NevadaJo 3 years ago
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...
Brian Bennett 3 years ago
In scrolling through answers a lot of down votes were given if the interesting facts were not interesting and it was so stated!
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