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“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.”
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RagDollLali 2 years ago
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.
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Zoe DiAnni 2 years ago
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).”
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Lyone Fein 2 years ago
This sucks. Is he the only person in this situation? There are many other actors who do all sorts of crazy action things.
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Pink Aesthetic 2 years ago
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
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Lyone Fein 2 years ago
What a waste. All those materials could be recycled. Or the planes used for housing.
LK 2 years ago
They are stored, not abandoned. Occasionally aeroplanes from these storage facilities are brought back into service. More often, parts are removed to keep other aeroplanes flying. There's a point when the machines are scrapped and are recycled.
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RagDollLali 2 years ago
I've been there, it's actually pretty cool. Interesting museum and graveyard tour. Many of those planes are kept for parts until they're all used up, then the remaining metal is eventually scrapped and reused.
James Frail 2 years ago
There's an important distinction that's missing. These are ALL military aircraft. This is, as mentioned by others, the best storage option for them to be returned to service, SHOULD THEY BE NEEDED. The point of them in the desert with wings detached, is proof of disarmament and that they have been taken out of service to honor agreements with Russia, and is therefore verifiable via satellite. This would not be true if they were hangered. But equally important, is that they CAN be returned to service faster than building new ones. It's a deterrent.
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I used to live near the "graveyard" (near Davis-Monthan AFB) and it's not a place for aircraft to die. The low humidity in the area greatly reduces rust and preserves some of the most sensitive of instruments. These aircraft have parts that can be harvested to replace parts on active planes. We called these craft "can birds."
Your Local Forza Enthusiast 2 years ago
Is it wrong to try to buy a old F-15 from here and try to fly it to work everyday? Asking for a friend.
Ron H. 2 years ago (edited)
Might want to get a Harrier or Osprey for easier parking. 😅
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Kimberly Alison 2 years ago
Yes, it’s not all that interesting of a place, however. I’ve been there.
James Frail 2 years ago
Military deterrence is worth even more than that.
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Mary Lugo 2 years ago
These planes are not "collecting dust". They are in the Pima Air and Space museum. I was just there. It's well thought out. I had a ball going thru and seeing replicas of the first, smallest, war planes, and Air Force Ones. I would highly recommend it. Their docents Know their stuff. As far as 'dust' is concerned. . . hey! It's Arizona whadda you want?!
AnneFromAccounting 2 years ago
This is FAKE; it's a photographic manipulation of a "plane graveyard" that does not exist. Enlarge and notice all planes are exact copies and
Spooky Scary Skeletons 2 years ago
The reason it's in a desert is because of the low humidity and the alkaline soil, airplanes stored there can last for years without corrosion.
Tyrolian Glow 2 years ago
They have several of the homes that people made from airplanes on youtube.
PrettyJoyBird 2 years ago
Been in several movies too. According to a few of those movies its what under them thats really fascinating.
Chris Landrum 2 years ago
actually, many of them can be cleaned up and used again. They are their because we aren't ready to reclaim them
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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
someone needs to help that channel with their grammar. Sentences seem to be missing information in some cases.
Monday 2 years ago
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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YourSecretSanta 2 years ago
BP needs to lean what the word 'facts' mean, some of these were not facts
GenericPanda09 2 years ago
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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Jods 2 years ago
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.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago (edited)
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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Nick 2 years ago
I stopped reading after #7. I can't stand the colors and every picture starting with "Did you know". It's annoying
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
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?
Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago
It's just fun to read something I had never heard of before. Fact or not!
Carla Beck 2 years ago
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?
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
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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censorshipsucks 2 years ago
someone needs to help that channel with their grammar. Sentences seem to be missing information in some cases.
Monday 2 years ago
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... YourSecretSanta 2 years ago
BP needs to lean what the word 'facts' mean, some of these were not facts
GenericPanda09 2 years ago
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... Jods 2 years ago
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.
Apatheist Account2 2 years ago (edited)
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... Nick 2 years ago
I stopped reading after #7. I can't stand the colors and every picture starting with "Did you know". It's annoying
LokisLilButterknife 2 years ago (edited)
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?
Dorothy Cloud 2 years ago
It's just fun to read something I had never heard of before. Fact or not!
Carla Beck 2 years ago
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?
Andy Frobig 2 years ago
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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