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The Twitter account 'WTF Facts' has earned itself 274.1K followers by sharing random trivia about the world. While this figure alone isn't enough to determine whether or not the content on it is high-quality, you have to admit, it's kind of impressive that a quarter of a million people want to see it.
Why did so many people sign up to see the account's posts? Well, the main reason is probably the element of surprise. From unique locations across the globe to people's wholesome acts of kindness, 'WTF Facts' touches on a wide variety of topics. So, we decided to compile some of its most popular uploads and ask you if you think the account is worth all the buzz surrounding it.
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Jules (they/them) 2 years ago
"His wife" has a name too, and it's Lélia Wanick Salgado. They're both environmentalists so they both should be recognized.
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Terry Tobias 2 years ago
Elephants mourn their dead... they made this man an honorary member of the herd. This is so sweet and sad.
Going through obscure facts isn't just temporary fun. Turns out, it can also be 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.
Whether we're playing Trivial Pursuit at home or attending a pub trivia night, the basic premise remains the same: we experience the thrill of providing correct answers to questions about lesser-known facts.
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"You get a rush or a neuro reward 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.”
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Johnnynatfan 2 years ago
Gray story but healthcare to save someone’s life should not drain your f*****g life savings
Kounios said the benefits can also be similar to those of playing video games.
However, Kounios stressed that trivia is generally not a problematic hobby.
“I don’t think there are any pitfalls,” he said. “Like anything else that’s fun, it takes up time.”
Sarah Kishler, who works as a librarian in California, loves trivia games and enjoys attending a monthly pub trivia night in which a team of librarians participates.
"Learning facts so that I can get better at trivia is definitely a passion of mine," she also told Healthline. "Getting a question right is definitely very satisfying to me."
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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
When a loved one leaves the pain is insurmountable. In my opinion,this pain never leaves. This insurmountable loss and pain becomes a part of our life as we cherish the memories.
Over the past decade, pub trivia nights that are popular in the United Kingdom appear to have grown in popularity in other parts of Europe and the United States as well.
Enthusiasts like Kishler enjoy getting to interact with people at these events, especially compared to electronic trivia games.
She has learned that doing well at these social trivia games gives her "a feeling of validation" and increases her self-esteem.
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Lakota Wolf (she/her) 2 years ago
✨AMERICA✨, land of the free, amirite? (speaking as an American, lol)
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Mint Sauce 2 years ago
How any country can call itself the greatest country in the world when people have to do this just to get medical care!!!!!! Whether you have an in-growing toenail or need a heart transplant, the cost in the UK is just the same, Nothing!!!!!!!
Tracy Butler 2 years ago
🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 May as well get a free college education while he’s in there too!
Michelle C 2 years ago
That’s heartbreaking! 💔 I hope the courts have mercy on him and got him the help he needed instead.
Tim Taylor 2 years ago
In Bermuda we had a well known street person who would smack a police officer upside the head round about November so that he could be sent to jail for the month of December and enjoy a really nice Christmas Dinner with people around him. The Bermuda Chief Magistrate who shoved him in the nick every year more or less admitted that this was a sort of charitable donation because otherwise the fella would be alone on the streets for Christmas. Everybody (including the cops) were okay with him because although he was permanently pissed (drunk to non-anglo speakers), he was not too much violent or mean, was a real character, , and he is now deceased, so no names, no pack drill - that's just how it was in Old Bermuda in them days. Try that in the Southern US now and they'd shoot him in the head just for being black and homeless and assaulting a police officer. Go Figure.
Hollow Man 2 years ago
That's 'Murica for you, the greatest country in the world that doesn't take care of its citizens even a little. No "rights" no healthcare. This country literally isn't even in the top 25 hahahahhelpus
Vasana Phong 2 years ago
Seen a clip of almost same scenario in Shameless, the character walked up to a cop and punched him, as he was being detained the other character screamed why’d you do that, he said, I need health care
DadManBlues 2 years ago
And the man who was smart enough to hack the system successfully was unemployed. I'd give him a job.
Ember Flame 2 years ago
Wanna know the sad part about these, from someone who has been through the system for years? 1. If you make ANY kind of income at all, you are disqualified. 2. No matter how urgent your problem is you are not getting into one of these places in less than a month from asking (and I am underestimating.) 3. The health care that they provide uou is the absolute minimum that they can give you to get you on your way. Not to mention the fact that they don't treat so many different things, and there are NO programs to help people get and stay sober. Believe me I had to nearly die coming off alcohol without insurance. It's a give no s**ts program. At least in jail they have dental once a month.
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Penelope Davis 2 years ago
That’s just sad… the fact that the world is this messed up, people are trying to get locked up for food, bedding, and health care. And people wonder why America has so many people in prison.
D Gangwere 2 years ago
Many for drug offenses. The War on (some) drugs has created private prisons. If a society must resort to private prisons because the law ensnares so many, then We The People need to push for getting rid of laws that create the issue. One (of many) issues with the "drug war" is simple possession is a crime. A Citizen has zero defense against a cop who plants drugs. And don't get me started on Asset Forfeiture, which is outright theft.
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DC 2 years ago
... now, if that doesn't spark a debate that results in healthcare being a lot cheaper and easier to get by, the society in question deserves a major disruptive event. Pretty much like a defibrillatore, shock it to silence to have a restart leading to actual working conditions. A society in which this doesn't happen as a result of the least likely, yet happenable, events happening, but this, pretty much unspectacularly, just is the tip of a huge iceberg of similar fück ups, deserves those benefitting from this atrocity to lose any and every security. That may make them reevaluate their egoism as obviously leading life principle.
Riley Quinn 2 years ago
Funny thing about this medical plan, it's still occurring in the "greatest" country in the world. Never underestimate how far the US will stoop when it comes to protecting its people.
NetworkNate 2 years ago
America is becoming trash, and has been dwindling this way for a while.
smugdruggler 2 years ago
I read that this happens a lot in Japan, where elderly people with no family to support them commit crimes just to get jailed and have a roof, a bed and three meals a day.
Marianne Nielsen 2 years ago
And then USA claims to be the land of prosperity ! That certainly depends...
Justin Castillo 2 years ago
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/nc-man-allegedly-robs-bank-health-care-jail/story?id=13887040
Jeffrey Diehl 2 years ago
Must be a third world sh!thole country without national health or single payer.
Jenna Logan 2 years ago
Yea, excuse my French but that's f****d up. Healthcare really needs to be torn down and reworked from the bottom up, the system is still so completely flawed
Mónica Elisabeth Sacco 2 years ago (edited)
Well, now You know, US. Get jailed and get health care for free
Janet Chaney 2 years ago
I knew a guy who kept going back to prison because he got free tv and three meals a day
Robert Rogers 2 years ago
Wait till he learns that prison health care is a joke. Republican health care, get sick, you're done.
Rahb in Oz 2 years ago
Whatever works! At least you are fed, housed, and given treatment now! Probably better off.
Cassie 2 years ago
There were several hospitals within his vicinity that had free and low-cost programs where he could have gotten healthcare without committing a crime (and very likely better than the healthcare he would receive while in jail). It is generally a little extra work to find these programs and many hospitals don't make that information readily available, but the hospitals in his area had them listed on their website. Check your local hospitals before going to jail for healthcare.
Synsepalum 2 years ago
The joke's on him, access to healthcare in American prisons is abysmal.
Mimi M 2 years ago (edited)
Actually there are government run medical clinics in all major areas of the US that treat people who cannot afford it. This guy would likely have qualified if he was unemployed. https://www.nachc.org/community-health-centers/what-is-a-health-center/ also https://www.hhs.gov/answers/health-insurance-reform/where-can-i-find-free-or-low-cost-health-care/index.html
PowellSkier 2 years ago
Sounds like a good plan to me. I've been ripping tags off mattress' for years with the hope I'll be arrested some day. No sight of the Feds yet. (Maybe I should post pics and videos. Start a new TikTok challenge focused on the removal of mattress tags.
whiterabbit 2 years ago
This is BS and 100% a choice of that guys for reasons other than medical treatment. I work in the medical field in the US and there are thousands of clinics in the US that will treat all patients and charge based off income, no income = "free" treatment. I put the "free" in quotations because the tax payers foot the bill.
Raccoon 2 years ago
Both my parents work full time and they are in debt from my brothers cancer. He had said cancer when he was less than a year old. He is now 11
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FeelingFrisky 2 years ago
Not everyone can get medicaid. Especially since he worked. If it were that easy to get we would have a Healthcare problem, would we?
Load More Replies...“People really like to have some expertise on something and the brain is very good at focusing on things that you’re interested in,” Deborah Stokes, Ph.D., L.P.C., B.C.N., a psychologist in Virginia, who focuses on neurotherapy told the same outlet.
According to Stokes, learning large bodies of knowledge can often start with trivia. And people who are interested in trivia can be brainy, have a high IQ, and be smart on a lot of levels.
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Moxitron Jazz 2 years ago (edited)
we Aussies are ashamed. To be fair, Emu's are fukn frightening and tough buggers...
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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
Student confronted with a knife? What was he supposed to do? Get stabbed?
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Oh Gosh 2 years ago (edited)
I need to know how f'd up the dude was after. So after some googling. The gorilla was intoxicated on fermented bamboo. He came at the photographer with all his weight and it felt like being hit by a train he said. He was left with a souvenir scar on his forehead. (I'm guessing from where his camera went into his face.) Then the gorilla just walked right over him and went on his way. (Super lucky he's alive imo).
"In typical people, my observation, not backed up by any research, is that their interest in trivia is confined to topics that they are generally interested in," Kounios added.
"So if a person is very interested in history, then they may either seek out history trivia, or they might just naturally pick it up in the course of learning about nontrivial aspects of history."
Stokes also pointed out that trying to retain information about things we're interested in can be like a good exercise for the frontal cortex as the brain ages.
So if you're up for more, fire up our earlier publication on 'WTF Facts!'
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Pixie Peck 2 years ago
When I was a kid I was told by my great grandma's 2nd husband that in the late 50s early 60s him and his friends were responsible for several faked foot prints and other evidence such as howls of Big Foot in Skamania County WA. The irony of it all is that later in life he was a converted believer in Sasquatch. I've been wanting to tell this secret since I was 15.
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Mora Chilis 2 years ago
They had questions if she was that old-like maybe her daughter took over her identity. The other fascinating thing is her lawyer went into contract with her to purchase her apartment en viager when she was 90. Basically someone makes a monthly payment until the seller’s death, when the property becomes theirs. She outlived him. And his children had to continue the payments by law until her death. Maybe karma thinking he was getting a great deal on real estate.
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️Crystal️ 2 years ago
This makes me feel better, it's a great reminder to check yourself for thinking in stereotypes. My IQ is close to that, and I've not made any noticeable accomplishments that would give it away. I am disabled, and feel I can never live up to the potential I had as a child. I think everyone expects that a high IQ means we've gotta be nerdy, awkward geniuses. Higher IQ does, however, increase existential depression, so please, bring on the cannabis so we can make it until tomorrow. Do not judge a book by it's cover, or even by it's reputation 💜
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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
That was unintentional but Genghis became an eco warrior through his wars
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ninjaTrashPandaBoom 2 years ago
Framing the dog...what a jerk! Fido only has his learner's permit.
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Skara Brae 2 years ago
I'm guessing it's already been secretly emptied and keeping it closed means nobody will look for the culprits.
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David A Paterson 2 years ago
For Newton, his foray into mathematics, gravity and optics was just a temporary distraction from his real hobby, alchemy, about which he wrote a huge amount of total(?) rubbish. His paid work was as master of the British Mint.
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Moxitron Jazz 2 years ago (edited)
what about the daughter he doesnt communicate with because she's queer?...Edit: thanks to other pandas and further research, yeh, he abandoned her before birth, because she was the result of a fling...what a fukn champ(douchepickle)
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Michael P (Perthaussieguy) 2 years ago
They were mourning their loss of this guy. Perhaps in the not so distant future, this record number of people gathered at a funeral may be broken for the total opposite reason. I think we all know whom...
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Vasana Phong 2 years ago
I guess my husband stole all the IQ when he was created, his 2 younger siblings reminds me of another version of Beavis & Buthead
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BetterBitterButter 2 years ago
It should've been Brenda Fricker to deny this insulting comparison
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𝐆𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐦-𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚 2 years ago
TBF he looks like the sort of guy who would try to make a living that way.
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Abby da great 2 years ago
It’s because “cow” (牛) in slang means someone that has extremely impressive abilities. The original “牛姐” (literally translated “cow girl” or “cow sis”) was a nickname for Mariah Carey, and people in China thought Ariana’s voice was similar to Mariah’s, so she was known as “小牛“ (little cow).
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Terry Tobias 2 years ago
So this guy bought a car, insured and registered it, then abandoned it, just to get back at his ex? He probably put more work into that revenge plan than he did in their relationship.
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ThéviNinja (she/her) 2 years ago
Wait wait wait. As a woman, I have to ask how chest size factors into this
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Terry Tobias 2 years ago
If AI written essays are as bad as AI created people, those students are in trouble.
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Legendbird 2 years ago
PSA: The crown jewels were actually given as a birthday gift from South Africa to the British King.
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happyplants28 2 years ago
That man needs some counselling for his mental health. Hopefully this will help him feel appreciated instead of manipulating the emotions of people around him. He must be in a very bad place if this is the only way he can think to get love.
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Fun fact: Pluto has a heart on its surface made out of solid nitrogen and it has toothpaste like consistency. It’s called Tombaugh Regio
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
Fun fact: I love the list, hate the title. I don't say "WTF" when I learn something because I know more words than that. What's wrong with "Fascinating Random Facts"? And by the way, unless they start the sentence, words like "of", "the", "and", "may" aren't capitalized in headlines.
Stardust she/her 2 years ago
Fun fact: Pluto has a heart on its surface made out of solid nitrogen and it has toothpaste like consistency. It’s called Tombaugh Regio
Jerusalem Cat Syndrome 2 years ago
Fun fact: I love the list, hate the title. I don't say "WTF" when I learn something because I know more words than that. What's wrong with "Fascinating Random Facts"? And by the way, unless they start the sentence, words like "of", "the", "and", "may" aren't capitalized in headlines.
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