“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!
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Natural burial is getting huge. Makes sense. If I were not going to be cremated then I would want this. Ashes to ashes and all that. Who wants to be underground in a vault for all of eternity? So unnatural. We are organic.
Headstone hunting genealogist here, with fun facts about burials. * At 1 meter depth, average soil weight on body is 1.6 tons. Coffins will crush. If you buy concrete shell, the concrete acids leach into soil. * Metal coffin parts of steel, copper, brass degrade and leach into soil. * Over 3,028,000 liters (800,000 gallons) of embalming fluid is dumped yearly into the soil and air. It is a carcinogen. * 4 million acres of trees are destroyed yearly just for coffins.
And there’s no guarantee that all that will preserve the body for any real length of time.
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Never get buried with a fungus. They take up too mushroom.
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If you aren't embalmed and just put in the ground without a coffin wouldn't you decompose pretty quickly anyway? Maybe it depends on soil conditions.
Us Jews for example aren't embalmed and we're put in a simple pine box so we're gone relatively fast.
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I hate the idea of being buried to be preserved with a headstone. I am just taking up precious space on this Earth so some people hundreds of years later can say "Oh there's a dead body named Mick underneath where I am standing!". So I would much prefer a place to decompose and help the Earth grow.
Same here. If possible I'd like a tree to mark my grave instead of a tombstone. Maybe some simple signage to help visitors know it's my tree, but other than that just stick me right in the ground after the funeral. I feel like contributing to the growth of new life is more meaningful to me than being preserved for preservation's sake.
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You should probably sign your son up for archery lessons, nothing like going out in a blaze of glory!
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I've expressed my wishes for one many times over the years and my husband hates the idea.
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I love this! I love the idea of returning our bodies to the earth. It's really a beautiful concept if you really think about it!
Terramation, or NOR natural organic reduction. I think 6 states have made it legal. I keep seeing more and more of it
There are services that will legally scatter your cremated ashes into the ocean, with or without anyone in attendance. Google it and you’ll see the service costs between a few hundred to a few thousand. This is how I’ll finally be able to travel the world and eventually become part of the earth.
I’ve always told my family to put me in a pine box for all I care. I know where my spirit and soul are going, so I’m not worried about my body.
Yes. Funeral industry is big business though, and it has made people believe expensive $15,000 burials are the 'respectful' thing to do.
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Some cultures in history would take the corpse to a wooden tower (about two stories high) in the desert for the vultures to ingest. The reconning is that the souls of the person ingested by one of the highest flying birds in the world will be taken to heaven.
@old roadie thank you for all that important info. I did not know all that. I am alrdy set to be donated to science or organs to someone in need. Rest cremated. Always know about ash tree burials. Besides being scattered to wind what are the facts on ocean burials for coral wildlife growth?????!!!
Franklin D. Roosevelt was buried in a wooden coffin with a side panel that slid out as he was lowered. Appropriate that he’d return to nature since his name was Dutch for rose field.
Washington, Vermont, Cali, NY, Colorado and Oregon that I know of
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When I die, my family has instructions to cremate my body. If they do not, I will haunt them for the rest of their lives!
I want my ashes mixed with a weeping willows roots, and soil. I want my children to come sit with me, have barbeques, and my enjoy sitting in my shade.
Can I choose the type of mushroom? I would want something edible, like portabella or magic...
I am going to go with Recompose who will turn me into liquid fertilizer
Don't worry, unless you have a very expensive well-sealed vault, it won't take that many years for your coffin to rot, and you as well. It's really not all that natural to decompose 6 ft under ground in either case. I do like the idea though!
Speaking as someone in the funeral industry, I'm glad that these kinds of burials are becoming more popular, slowly but surely. I think it's beautiful that the last of your life (aka, your body) can give to new life. Plus it may be more expensive at first because of the "novelty" but it should also eventually make funerals cheaper, not to mention the environmental goodness compared to traditional burial or even cremation.
Water composting has just been legalized in my home state of NY and I think that might be an interesting way to go
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
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.
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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 :)
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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 :( .
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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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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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