“Did You Know?”: 30 Interesting Facts About The World You Probably Didn’t Learn At School
Did you know that sloths can hold their breath longer than dolphins can, or that it would take more than 1,200,000 mosquitoes to completely drain the blood of an average human? Well, now you do!
In today’s technological age, we can access the world’s knowledge without having to leave the house. Having a working computer and the internet is enough to explore the depths of information flowing at the speed of light. All the new ideas, perspectives, and insights are at our fingertips. The only thing you have to do is want to learn something new. And if you do, “Einstein Fact” is here to help!
With more than 110 thousand followers on Instagram, “Einstein Fact” makes sure that our brains are fed with some fresh information about the world we live in. From random facts you didn’t even know you needed to really useful material, there’s tons of knowledge to impress others! Scroll down to add an extra wrinkle to your brain!
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Learning doesn’t stop at school or university. The key to remaining relevant, in sync with the latest trends, and able to adapt to the ever-changing world is to have an insatiable appetite for learning. We here at Bored Panda always want to learn something new, so we reached out to Nate Kornell, Ph. D., a professor of cognitive psychology at Williams College, to ask some questions about learning and memory. Scroll down to read the whole interview!
Nowadays, there’s an overabundance of information, easily accessible to anyone with an internet connection. It’s simply impossible to get a grip on all of the ‘flies on the web’. Even after filtering the information, it might be hard to remember all the interesting facts over the long term. Speaking about flies and memory, Nate Kornell shared that memories are kind of like flies in a web. “Sometimes flies escape, so it helps to connect them to the webbing as many times as you can. Similarly, you can make a new memory stick by thinking about how it connects to other things you know. (A great deal of research has demonstrated this finding.) It also helps to close your eyes and quiz yourself on what you learned, and to return to it after a significant interval of time.”
Radium stickers is just another name for the glow in the dark stickers. Like the stars that everyone used to have all over their bedroom ceiling and walls in the 90's that needed to absorb light and then they'd glow all night :)
In a world where vast amounts of information are available at our fingertips, you might be wondering if it is important to focus on improving our memory and learning techniques. According to Nate Kornell, remembering facts is less necessary now that we can just ask our devices. “But at a deeper level, it's never been more important. Creativity and innovation often take the form of noticing connections between different ideas, and you can't do that unless you have stored a lot of ideas in your memory. Personal growth and work productivity are all about developing and learning. I believe that successful people are often the ones who continue to learn and grow when others have reached a plateau.”
We asked Nate Kornell if there are certain types of information that are easier to remember than others. “There's a legend that Bill Russell, the great Boston Celtics basketball player, could remember an almost limitless number of specific plays from specific games that had happened many years earlier. This kind of memory is possible because he was such a basketball expert. Russell understood the game so well that to him, every play was vivid and unique and distinctive. In general: The more you know about X, the easier it is to encode new information about X. We're also highly attuned to human stories, and so they are far easier to remember than facts or statistics,” the professor answered.
Does anyone know if it counter acts the bromide? It would be awesome to eat without leaving my mouth raw
Learning allows us to acquire knowledge, make decisions, and adapt to our environments. However, not everyone learns and remembers information in the same way. Nate Kornell shared that memory abilities peak when a person is in their 20s. “The subsequent decline tends to be slight and imperceptible for a long time. There are also individual differences in memory ability; interestingly, though, having a powerful memory is not always helpful in life. Anecdotally, at least, people with truly exceptional memories have not found it to be much of an advantage in work or social situations (Alexander Luria wrote a case study about one such case in The Mind of a Mnemonist).”
This sucks. Is he the only person in this situation? There are many other actors who do all sorts of crazy action things.
Every other color than brown has actually an increased risk for eye diseases and difficulty driving at night. People with blue eyes (includes gray and green) also have existed for only 10 000 years and they originated from Middle East
Wow, I didn't know this. I have green eyes, my maiden name is McCabe, and according to my brother, we are descended from the Maccabes, a Jewish tribe from that part of the world. He'll like this fact.
Load More Replies...I think the woman in the picture technically has hazel eyes instead of pure green ones.
Why is it that green eyes with brown around the pupils are hazel, but blue eyes with gold around the pupils are still just blue?
Load More Replies...…actually violet or red eyes are the rarest naturally occurring. They sometimes occur, but it’s incredibly uncommon
They say while casting a green eyed woman to play the mother of blue eyed Harry. I get that he couldn't wear the colour contacts, but all they had to do to stay consistent was get a blue eyed actress to play his mum.
Load More Replies...Having green eyes is literally the most interesting thing about me. I am completely average in every other way! :)
Yes! Yes! Multiplex times! I'm so happy it's not only me 😅
Load More Replies...I love my green eyes, I had no idea it was "rare". I feel so special now. 😃
It’s even rarer to meet a redhead with green eyes. Only 2% of the world is redheaded, and I believe only up to a quarter of those folks have red hair and green eyes.
The eyes of the woman in the pic aren't green - they're hazel, a mixture of green and brown. Green eyes, however, come in many shades. I have green eyes, but they are a mossy green - like the moss you might see under a slow running stream.
Both of my sons and I all have mossy green eyes as well. No brown or gold in them. Possibly gray. I'm also part of 0.07% of females with "color deficiency" Which is a fancy way of saying I'm partially color blind. University of Texas took photos of my corneas in the 90's so they can study them
Load More Replies...2 of my exes had eyes with a ring of gold around them. One where it was so prominent that her eyes appeared yellow, the other they were blue with a ring of gold. Never again.
My mom has green eyes. Occasionally at least. They are usually a grey -green. Pretty either way
My mum used to tell me that mine went grey right before I'd get a migraine.
Load More Replies...I have green eyes and I was the only one in my first grade class!!!
I have green eyes, red hair and my skin is so fair I'm almost clear. I can't drive at night. If I'd been born in a different era, I'd be considered beautiful and I wouldn't have to drive anyway!
Anyone else reminded of the movie Big Trouble In Little China. The main villain specifically needed to marry a girl with green eyes for his magic spell.
So my eyes were blue for almost a year after I was born, then they turned green. Is that common for people with green eyes? Edit: well more of a greenish hazel with a bit of blue. So probably not considered a true green?
Most Caucasian babies are born with slate blue eyes. They charge as they get older.
Load More Replies...Some albino people have red eyes. Albinism is more rare than green eyes and not all albino people have red eyes si wouldn't red eyes be more rare? (Feel free to correct me if im wrong! 😊)
My mom had green eyes. She was 1 of 9 siblings and they all had blue except for her. I'm one of three and we're green, hazel and brown
Mine appear to change colour depending on the lighting of the day... some days they appear blue, or grey, or sometimes brown.. other times they're a distinct green, or hazel. When I joined up and they were doing the medical and putting down my 'distinct features' on my temp. ID card the 1st doctor was mulling over what to put and then got a colleague to have a look cause he wasn't sure. and half a dozen doctors later after none could agree on my eye colour they got put down on my ID as mixed. It's a running theme between me and my missus when we wake up and are going through the whole 'mornin' babe..' routine that I ask..'so what colour eyes do i have today?' It's generally gonna be a good day when the answer is green.
In some places they have a process that skims the melatonin off the iris resulting in blue or green eyes. This is a real thing...google it :)
That's 160,000,000 people!! That's more than Russia's population!!!
My eyes could pass for green. It depends on the lighting and who I ask
I guess that makes me part of the 2%, though everyone on my dad's side has green eyes. My mother has blue.
What a waste. All those materials could be recycled. Or the planes used for housing.
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someone needs to help that channel with their grammar. Sentences seem to be missing information in some cases.
Agreed. It's not an issue if individual people make mistakes but if you're a monetized channel that takes time to fact check you really should take time to grammar check too.
Load More Replies...BP needs to lean what the word 'facts' mean, some of these were not facts
I don't think they give a f**k tbh....it's not like any of these topics are moderated at all by visible 'mods' and most of the content is straight up nicked from other sites like reddit. The only 'moderation' they do to weed out spam posters for instance relies on enough people downvoting them to get an uncontestable ban which also captures and bans just those whose comments aren' t liked too. As far as I'm aware there is a near to zero chance of anyone in power on BP actually noticing feedback and responding to it. It's a bit of a shitshow... yet we're all still here. Maybe we shouldn't be :)
Load More Replies...Last week I discovered that when my dad was working on the restoration of a mansion for The National Trust, he used to talk with Sting from The Police and showed him the oak panelling he’d done. Sting owned the neighbouring estate. My dad worked there for months and Sting was a regular visitor who also asked my dad to do some work at his home. This was back in the late 90s and only finding this out last week has sent me a tad crazy. Sorry - just had to share cos there’s no one else to tell.
My brother-in-law once installed a snooker table for one of the Bee Gees. I'd love to say he asked for a reference and they spoke very highly...but that bit's not true :( .
Load More Replies...I stopped reading after #7. I can't stand the colors and every picture starting with "Did you know". It's annoying
Some of these facts were quite fun and quirky. I understand that these facts were likely not written by a native speaker, however, why didn’t BoredPanda at least correct some the grammar on a lot of these posts?
It's just fun to read something I had never heard of before. Fact or not!
I wish people would stop complaining about grammar. We are all aware that not everyone has the same language skills, due to being new to the language, or lack of education. Can't we just give people a break? Does it really matter that much?
When your actual gig is to communicate with a language, it doesn't seem like much to ask that you learn to use the primary tool of the gig, which in this case is English. In my experience, many ESL speakers can at least write English more correctly than some native English speakers because they've been exposed more to "correct" English as opposed to vernacular
Load More Replies...someone needs to help that channel with their grammar. Sentences seem to be missing information in some cases.
Agreed. It's not an issue if individual people make mistakes but if you're a monetized channel that takes time to fact check you really should take time to grammar check too.
Load More Replies...BP needs to lean what the word 'facts' mean, some of these were not facts
I don't think they give a f**k tbh....it's not like any of these topics are moderated at all by visible 'mods' and most of the content is straight up nicked from other sites like reddit. The only 'moderation' they do to weed out spam posters for instance relies on enough people downvoting them to get an uncontestable ban which also captures and bans just those whose comments aren' t liked too. As far as I'm aware there is a near to zero chance of anyone in power on BP actually noticing feedback and responding to it. It's a bit of a shitshow... yet we're all still here. Maybe we shouldn't be :)
Load More Replies...Last week I discovered that when my dad was working on the restoration of a mansion for The National Trust, he used to talk with Sting from The Police and showed him the oak panelling he’d done. Sting owned the neighbouring estate. My dad worked there for months and Sting was a regular visitor who also asked my dad to do some work at his home. This was back in the late 90s and only finding this out last week has sent me a tad crazy. Sorry - just had to share cos there’s no one else to tell.
My brother-in-law once installed a snooker table for one of the Bee Gees. I'd love to say he asked for a reference and they spoke very highly...but that bit's not true :( .
Load More Replies...I stopped reading after #7. I can't stand the colors and every picture starting with "Did you know". It's annoying
Some of these facts were quite fun and quirky. I understand that these facts were likely not written by a native speaker, however, why didn’t BoredPanda at least correct some the grammar on a lot of these posts?
It's just fun to read something I had never heard of before. Fact or not!
I wish people would stop complaining about grammar. We are all aware that not everyone has the same language skills, due to being new to the language, or lack of education. Can't we just give people a break? Does it really matter that much?
When your actual gig is to communicate with a language, it doesn't seem like much to ask that you learn to use the primary tool of the gig, which in this case is English. In my experience, many ESL speakers can at least write English more correctly than some native English speakers because they've been exposed more to "correct" English as opposed to vernacular
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