The ‘Facts Encyclopedia’ Instagram Is Dedicated To Sharing “Unknown Facts Daily”, Here’re 40 Of The Most Fascinating Ones
With the rise of educational pages, it has become obvious that social media has so much more to offer than fakery that destroys people’s mental health and irrational obsession with looks. Accounts with random facts and trivia, cool historical photos and ‘did you know that?’ interesting stories seem to be popping up everywhere right now, because the demand is big. You see, it seems like people really want to get something useful out of their feeds.
This Instagram page titled “Factopedia” follows the trend by sharing “unknown facts daily” and “must-see stories” for their 111k followers. Their series of “Did you know?” posts is an absolute treat for anyone who’s thirsty for easily accessible knowledge.
Scroll down through the handpicked selection below, upvote your favorite facts as you go and be sure to check out more weird facts that might give you a fresh perspective and interesting facts about practically everything you might not have known.
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It’s no secret that all facts we find on social media have to be taken carefully. You see, with so much false information and fake news spread around online, it becomes increasingly difficult to tell facts from fiction. But in order to find out how to do just that, we spoke with Daniel Markuson, the cybersecurity expert at NordVPN, a while ago. He happily shared some insights into the topic, and they may help to train your eye to make sure you get legit information from the internet.
That was nice of her. It can't be easy to go off book like that when you are queen.
Daniel explained that there is no foolproof method to separate truth from misinformation. However, a general rule of thumb is to check the source’s credibility. “This particularly applies to social media platforms because they are optimized to increase engagement and lack appropriate gatekeeping features that filter out misinformation.”
“It is also important to weigh the claims against other sources. If a publication makes monumental claims that are exclusive to that platform, do not take them at face value,” he added.
In order to determine, you may want to look for some red flags. Daniel argues that unreliable news sources impersonate well-known ones by misspelling their names in the URL. “Similarly, they might use unconventional domain extensions instead of the usual '.com' or '.org.' In general, make sure that your news comes from established, well-known sources. These types of outlets get information directly from primary sources and must uphold their reputation.”
If you’re still not sure, Daniel suggests looking into the author, researching them, and making sure their credibility is up to par. “It is also important to weigh our own perception and not let our biases skew our understanding of events. Seek out differing opinions and try not to associate facts with ideological dogma.”
This is a misleading statement. It broadens the scale to the entire universe, which would include Uranus and Neptune where it rains diamonds. Nevertheless, I value wood much higher than diamonds.
Fake news has become so widespread due to factors that concern both the content of the messages and the technological foundation of platforms on which the news is proliferated, Daniel told us previously. He explained: “Fake news is usually related to current affairs and makes remarkable, emotion-inducing claims. This, combined with the fact that social media platforms collect data on what kind of posts users spend the most time on and feed them content with similar characteristics, provides the perfect conditions for the spread of misinformation.”
The problem would be with maintenance. Could probably do the same in Australian deserts but because they are so uninhabitable and far from everywhere, it's just not feasible.
Right, because calling them "Strawberry Popsicles" could lead to some horrible confusion by folks seeking a lick for themselves.
Don't quote me on this coz I have never tried it but I have heard there isn't a huge taste to saffron and is mostly used for colour. So isn't it a bit of a waste of time, energy and money?
uhh...what? Ram Sethu is a natural rock formation. it was never built.
So instead of sewing we should teach bees to fly back and forth through fabric?
To expand, when you drop I to such a hole at the centre you will be at the fastest speed as all the potential energy had been turned to kinetic energy and if not for air friction and other loses once you reach the other side you would return to the exact same height you dropped from and that's when you would have zero speed. Like a pendulum. Now with energy loses you would return to a position close to the centre and if you leave it long enough you would stop at the centre.
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Ummm... no. The diameter of the Earth is over 12,000 km across. To cover that distance in 42 minutes, you'd have to be falling at about 10 times the speed of sound.
That time seems to be based on constant acceleration of gravity at the surface, and ignoring wind resistance. Under those conditions the distance an object falls (in feet) is 16t^2. Falling an even 4000 miles would take 19.15 minutes. That's almost 1149 seconds of acceleration, resulting in a maximum speed of about 25,000 mph and an average of 12,500. Assuming an identical deceleration on the up side results in a total transit time of 38 minutes 18 seconds. The problem with the time suggested is that gravity won't be uniform, so the acceleration will vary. It will increase for a while, then decrease to zero at the center, then increase and decrease to normal on the up side.
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If you are relying on gravity you wont get through at all. Once you pass the half way mark gravity will move the other way
Ever hear of momentum? The time is based on no air resistance, in which case you'd theoretically oscillate forever.
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The math is extremely easy if you ignore air and assume gravity remains constant (it doesn't). Distance of fall in a vacuum is 16t^2, so work backwards from 4000 miles and multiply by 2.
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Even after reading all the comments, I still think it would be fun... for someone else.
No, you simply wouldnt make it. If we first disregard the heat that would burn you to a crisp before you even got close to the middle, your major problem is that you very quickly would reach terminal velocity and after you past the gravitanional centre of the world you would not get very far before gravity and the airfriction would stop you fall and just pull you back again. So you would get stuck in the middle with no way to get out
If the tunnel has no air or friction, as with a mag-lev train, the tunnel can be a straight line between any two points and the trip still takes 42 minutes.
Not true. Assuming you don't suffocate or burn to death. https://www.wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/10/04/what-would-happen-if-you-fell-into-a-hole-that-went-through-the-center-of-the-earth/
How come it takes 30 minutes to cross 23 miles under the English Channel?
Except you won't quite make it because of air resistance and opposing gravity once you passed the center.
As a minimum that's true only if we get rid of all the air, and gravitational pull gets complex as you descend. About 50% of Earth's 100 mile thick atmosphere is in the bottom 18,000 feet, and the atmospheric pressure would initially increase very rapidly with depth, greatly increasing wind resistance. Gravity would also increase for awhile, as you got closer to the center of mass, but the increasing amount of mass above you would results in gravity also exerting an upward pull. At the exact center you'd be weightless because there would be an equal gravitational pull in every direction. I really have no idea how high the air pressure would get, but it would be extremely high, and even though gravity at the enter would have reduced to zero the pressure of the air above would mean that reduced gravity doesn't reduce the air pressure. With air I suspect it would take an extremely long time to fall to the center.
Or you could be stopped halfway . . . at the center point, both directions would be uphill.
Damn that's quicker than getting the train under the British Channel from London to Paris
For the people that don't know: when going skydiving and you just drop with no parachute you don't just stop because of gravity you stop because of the land, the gravity is just helping you fall. Its kind of the same with this when dropped you immediately gain speed and when you gain that speed it doesn't just stop you in the middle it uses all that kinetic energy till its gone. When its gone thats when you stop. Thats why you could actually probably do this if possible
Wait what? The other side? If the earth's flat, you would jump through the hole to reach the bottom, right?
Terminal velocity means you would never even come close to the other side. Probably only a few miles from the center before your pulled back the opposite direction.
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All the misspellings and grammatical errors should make you wonder how many of these facts are fake
Did you know you probably can't remember the first Fact by now without scrolling back up?
Thank goodness for all of you here calling BS on this whole post. I thought I was going to be the only one. So many of these are misrepresentations at best, and just catagoricaly wrong at worst. Stay in school kids.
Examples: tiger pic missing, at least, melanistic color variation. The squirrel in a mask was an intentional gaff, the vid went around for years, no one was "terrorized:" you can even see the darn string in the pic. Flathead lake is that deep, but that pic is of about 10 ft of water. Oscar winners and nominees receive NO CASH, but they get a swag bag worth 150-200 thousand. This is well known. Yup, Project Immortality, (created by a video game bro-gramer,) sent Stephen Hawking's DNA into space; also playboy model Jo Garcia, so yeah, hell of an honor. Sending kids in the mail was never a practice, it was a stunt. The kid was sent one mile, and it was done to make a point about the lack of regulation in the brand new postal service. Ancient stone chain has been found in China and Egypt. Finally, if you have a stuffy nose from virus or allergies, ice will just make you miserable as your capillaries shrink on the congestion.
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#32 Bill Gates Periodic chart. Some elements are incredibly unstable and only exist for a fleeting moment. Others are so radioactive only tiny snouts could prove fatal and would present a massive security / health risk. So I don’t think he has a sample of EVERY element.
A lot of mistakes. Chinese never called India "heaven," they just transliterated Sindh.
All the misspellings and grammatical errors should make you wonder how many of these facts are fake
Did you know you probably can't remember the first Fact by now without scrolling back up?
Thank goodness for all of you here calling BS on this whole post. I thought I was going to be the only one. So many of these are misrepresentations at best, and just catagoricaly wrong at worst. Stay in school kids.
Examples: tiger pic missing, at least, melanistic color variation. The squirrel in a mask was an intentional gaff, the vid went around for years, no one was "terrorized:" you can even see the darn string in the pic. Flathead lake is that deep, but that pic is of about 10 ft of water. Oscar winners and nominees receive NO CASH, but they get a swag bag worth 150-200 thousand. This is well known. Yup, Project Immortality, (created by a video game bro-gramer,) sent Stephen Hawking's DNA into space; also playboy model Jo Garcia, so yeah, hell of an honor. Sending kids in the mail was never a practice, it was a stunt. The kid was sent one mile, and it was done to make a point about the lack of regulation in the brand new postal service. Ancient stone chain has been found in China and Egypt. Finally, if you have a stuffy nose from virus or allergies, ice will just make you miserable as your capillaries shrink on the congestion.
Load More Replies... #32 Bill Gates Periodic chart. Some elements are incredibly unstable and only exist for a fleeting moment. Others are so radioactive only tiny snouts could prove fatal and would present a massive security / health risk. So I don’t think he has a sample of EVERY element.
A lot of mistakes. Chinese never called India "heaven," they just transliterated Sindh.
