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.
I can't even imagine what terrifying things existed back then in Australia. Probably a spider as big as a horse with wings and laser vision.
Emus will make you run that fast and so will a cassowary, both can kick you to death. Run like the wind if you want to live. download-6...728ab8.jpg 
Somehow I have no problem believing our ancestors being stronger than we are now
I do. You think some rando, with zero training, and most likely malnourished would beat a professional athlete who was been training their whole life?
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A flat, well-defined footprint from somebody running that fast in mud? Sounds like complete b******t to me, and I couldn't find anything that explained why it's not. What does turn up easily with a quick Google search is that stride cadence is a necessary factor, but in this case it's an unknown factor.
You may be able to postulate that they were running, but I can think of no way to estimate the speed at which they were moving.
Humans were much more trained in those times cause they needed it to survive. And they started "training" immediatly. Of course they were in better shape than nowadays Athleten. A bunch of experimentell anthropologists on a survival Trip anounced every 7 year old stone age kid would have done better than themselves.
I read about some Australian fossilised footprints where the person had apparently got one leg and was hunting.
Probably running from a dinosaur cuz, as we all know, humans and dinosaurs lived together.
Sounds to me like he was being chased. You'll never know how fast you can run until you're running for your life.
He was actually sprinting faster than any modern person has by about 2km/h.
Interesting to see the size of the little toe. Modern day, these have shrunk to nearly half the size of the other toes. This footprint shows all toes more or less the same size.
Length of the step, force the foot was put down with??🤷🏻♂️ Experts can get a lot of info from an inprint
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Length of stride, force the foot was put down with🤷🏻♂️ I dont know but is guess something like that, experts can say a lot about an inprint
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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?
Nope, we will beat it with our global warming and make earth covered with one single ocean.
I would have kept it and slapped a "My other car is the Popemobile" bumper sticker on it.
This is not the clearest picture taken... this is the clearest picture taken by that specific astrophotographer named Astronophilos. Someone took the "my" out of his reddit post that states "This is my clearest picture of a third quarter Moon that required 42,000 images and 74GB of data"
Yeah..and? Jimmy Savile ran marathons for charity...what's your point?
The image is photoshopped but the condition is real, the technical name is "polycoria" (not "pupula duplex").
It's not Nikola Tesla, this pic is a known hoax https://factly.in/image-of-a-man-who-resembles-nikola-tesla-is-passed-off-as-rare-photo-of-nikola-tesla-with-a-woman/
Nope, that's not true... Arabic numerals have evolved in shape over the centuries, and are themselves derivated from even older Indian numerals. And it's pretty clear the picture here distorts them just to fit the 'theory' behind their shapes. Look at that 8... nobody does an 8 with two triangles..Or the line at the bottom of the 7....
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.
