“Did You Know?”: 30 Interesting Facts About The World You Probably Didn’t Learn At School
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Not at all. Every disabled ramp needs a proper railing. Imagine being on a wheelchair and navigating through that? This only seems fun if you're able to walk. Not to forget it doesn't look like it's the right ratio at all... Too steep for wheelchairs.
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As a wheelchair user, this is f*cking terrifying, not to mention my disabilities make me very weak and to get up ramps I absolutely need railings so I can pull myself up. Love that they thought about us, hate that they didn't consult us when they designed it.
Thank you for explaining. At first, this seemed like a really good idea
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It would be a slip and slide for my wheelchair in the rain or right after. I'd end up going backwards too. The wheels on my electric chair are not the best.
What chair do you have? I'm a full time wheelie and have had active and electric chairs and many different makes and models over the years and never had one that would be that slippery! Your chair sounds dangerous, none of mine or any others I know friends etc have, would struggle on this unless the water is literally pouring down like a waterfall in which case it would be dangerous for all!
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When an architect and an engineer have never talked to a wheelchair user before
Looks cool but looks more dangerous. The steps are very narrow, the ramps are very steep and just as narrow. No railings but one for the ramps. Could you imagine being alone in a wheelchair trying to go up those ramps? Good idea just executed poorly.
Actually this would be both difficult and unsafe for me to use with me wheelchair.
Can't comment on the wheelchair utility but as a walking person this is terrible. Uneven steps, small curbs to trip over. Could you imagine trying to walk down the middle of the staircase?
I suppose it is a bit steep but at least someone had the idea and this may be beta test1.0 . Most of the time I like to look on the bright side.
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It's unconscionable that we still get excited about designs for people who need them. This is something that should have been standardized decades ago, yet some areas lag woefully behind.
As a wheelchair user, I love that this doesn't involve a ramp as an afterthought!
Gotta b an art installation bc this is NOT wheelchair friendly or accessible.
That is stunning and as a person who does have some challenges in life it makes things so much easier with a wheelchair it means my husband could walk beside me. Now all I need is for people to address me instead of who ever is standing near me. Had a cashier start talking to some poor woman behind me who I don't know from Adam. For the first time in my life I raised my voice and said in a very projected voice giving her the death stars "I'm first in the queue why are you ignoring me? I'm sure that's against your customer service guide lines. I suffer from anxiety but my rage was so much I didn't care so I suppose she did me a favour by making me more assertive by I threw up for an hour when I got home. Ablebodied world just because my legs don't work doesn't mean my brain doesn't work. Sorry for the rant but this happens so often is disheartening.
This is such a wonderful and thoughtful idea! I had both knees replaced, but can only use the steps, one step at a time! 👏👏💝💝
A very compassionate. considerate and aesthetically pleasing design.
Not a wheelchair user. But I'd straight up be "WEEEEEE". It looks pretty dangerous for actual disabled people though, I think it needs rails.
For someone with a disabled Mum - I like this. As someone who has Dyspraxia and has a disabled Mum, apart from the fear of letting go of my Mum’s wheelchair - I still appreciate it. 🥰
a walking person goes straight up the stairs, while one on a wheelchair must zig-zag
Either this is a photo of my hometown or it was built by the same people!
Again agreed in hindsight but it's a step forward and my gorgeous husband point out these to me when I showed him what I posted. I'm try really hard not to spontaneously combust from the heat of my blushes.
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It could just be the angle of the photo, but this ramp looks very steep to me. But it does eliminate the issue of the one at the local health centre (step down from a hospital, but more facilities than your average GP surgery) - there is quite a big difference in height between the building and the road, so they built a lovely, if very long, ramp. The steps cur across the middle of the ramp, but some genius decided to fill in the gaps with raised planters. It's a nice bit of greenery in a space which otherwise has very little, but means that as a wheelchair user, you can't see people on the steps. I suspect the reverse is also true. I fear that one day there will be a collision.
Of course, when I say it eliminates the visibility issue, it does introduce a new issue of slippage. One wrong push to disaster.
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that's unhuman... a walking person can go straight up the stairs, while a person using a wheelchair must zig-zag
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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