40 Interesting Facts About Practically Everything You Might Not Have Known, Shared By “Fact Point”
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The internet is full of knowledge and often picking up fun and intriguing tidbits of information is something we can’t avoid. Luckily, we enjoy learning new things, and we know that you do too. After all, studying about the world not only satisfies our curiosity but also helps us unwind and forget about our daily troubles.
So let’s take a deep dive and learn some of the most surprising truths from Fact Point. This Twitter account, self-described as the ‘House of Amazing Facts’, is dedicated to sharing the never-ending supply of cool trivia and enlightening their 419.9K followers along the way.
Scroll down to see some of the best posts we have collected from the account, be sure to learn a thing or two, and upvote the ones that surprised you the most! And if you’re hungry for more mind-boggling facts, check out our recent posts about them here and here.
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Bored Panda has reached out to the founder of the account, Amit Baghel, to learn more about the project and the inspiration behind it. He told us that the journey of Fact Point began in 2014 when he regularly started posting short snippets describing interesting, little-known facts on social media.
Amit admitted that he loved to read about the fascinating tidbits of knowledge—and the more obscure they were, the better. “I would collect articles on facts like others would collect coins or stamps,” he said.
Initially, Amit managed his hobby alone by posting short extracts from the information he read online. “Later on, my brother Sandeep Baghel also started assisting me with social media strategy ideas and suitable graphics,” he revealed. “With consistent posting over time, backed up by some canny research into our audience’s preferences, the accounts grew quickly across platforms.”
“Much of our content comes from closely monitoring the levels of user engagement in order to keep our audience happy,” the founder told Bored Panda. “We do not perceive any difficulty in managing the account.” On the contrary, they love to be a part of it by sharing exciting knowledge with their followers.
“After managing Fact Point successfully on Twitter, we started a page on Instagram with infographics dedicated to facts,” he said. The content they post is unique and verified with multiple credible sources before publishing. “This has solidified the presence on the platform and turned it into one of the biggest communities for inquisitive minds on Instagram.”
When the founder noticed that people were eager to learn new fascinating things about the world and their community started quickly growing, they spread onto other platforms. They created a new Facebook page and then launched a YouTube channel.
“During the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown, we also started a YouTube channel for Hindi-speaking users from our home country.” And it seems there are even more plans ahead since Amit revealed that they plan to launch a website and a mobile app quite soon.
When asked why so many people enjoy learning new facts, the creator revealed that it’s always useful to discover new things. “We believe that the more knowledge we gather about the world around us, the greater is our understanding of our place in the Universe.”
“Factual information on any subject is crucial for our existence in this world,” he continued. “If our perceptions about the world are based on false premises, it is obvious that we shall have a hard time preserving life and happiness.”
“In this era of fake news, we feel that our audience supports us because we go to great pains to ensure that the information we post is verifiably and justifiably factual in nature,” Amit added. They set up another account on Tumblr “where details of our sources are openly displayed for anyone to inspect and dispute if it can be proven to be mistaken or inaccurate.”
Bet loads of Bored Pandas do that too😉. I do, especially with bread or chips. If its a chip butty then my songs become operatic.
THIS!! THIS IS THE REASON MY MOM WON'T LAUGH AT MY JOKES YESTERDAY! THIS!
Or we need a sample of your jokes --- they may be terrible.
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I do, so I always brace myself, waiting for the other shoe to drop.
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"Those who laugh in the morning will weep in the evening". Some dumbass saying I read here in Germany... Anyways, I have this and now I have a name for it :)
My mother told me a version of that in the UK - 'laughing before breakfast, crying before bedtime'.
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I wonder about the name of the phobia! I suppose it comes from Greek but the Greek word for joy is chara not chera! Shouldn't it be charophobia? Although that sounds like you are afraid of Charon in Greek😏
You are right, the Greek word for joy is "chara" and even so it is the root word for "cheraphobia". Thing is there is no explanation for why the changed to "chera" and now I'm dying of curiosity 🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies... I do this! I rein myself in if I feel too good about how things are going. Or if Im too proud of myself. Because Im convinced it causes things to go to s**t at a later date.
I don't know if I'd use the word 'afraid', but I definitely grow uncomfortable. I've had depression my whole life, and anxiety, and these all just seem to go hand-in-hand.
Think some have a hidden worry that they don't deserve to be that happy, thus they think it may set off tragedy as punishment.
Let's play ''Name that Disease''! Actually, what you have here is a culturally based superstition, found mostly in Central and Eastern Europe, info courtesy of my German grandmother. Say you break your favorite teacup; this mishap is said to protect you against a greater, more painful loss. People actually throw dishes at newlyweds in the hope of attracting good luck to the couple to compensate for all the bad luck symbolized by the dishes.
Not me jumping at every little creak, sound and sudden movement after 2 days of consecutive happiness.
100% me. I'm always waiting for the other shoe to drop. It feels wrong to be too content and I get anxiety.
Phobias are irrational. But what if indeed EVERY time you are very happy about something, you lose it? That's why I won't ever be too happy again.
I get excited about a new project I'm planning, but then I have to calm myself down to get on with the work that's involved. Then I need to make sure I don't get a terrible shock because of the anti-climax, when I find I can't complete it.
Sounds like some of the crap priests and nuns used to feed us in grammar school....
Yes I was happy and the worst thing ever happened….my daughter (18 and on her way to college to be a vet was killed by a drunk driver. ) Nothing will ever be the same again and I’m done with being happy
Yup. Something good happening causes me great stress and anxiety because I'm waiting for the bad part. Recently I had a 1:1 Zoom call with my boss where he sang my praises and thanked me, asked me to let him know if I was thinking of ever leaving etc. The entire call I spent on high alert for the bomb to drop but it didn't and it left me really confused.
Great. One more thing to add to my issues. This does not make me happy.
That's in fact sad. One has to really enjoy the joyful happenings in his/her life.
Is it Cherophobia or just continuous bad luck? Happy about new phone = brakes the same day. Just got a new puppy = stole my computer and damaged my car. Excited about getting paid for a big project = getting bad family news. Honestly, whenever I'm super happy about something, I get a slap on my face. If I don't share or show my happiness, all keeps being ok. Wtf is that?
This is my entire Serbian family. All of their group photos look like they're from funerals.
I can be happy, I just can't say I'm happy out loud because something always happens to bring me down a notch when I do
Bruhhhh nothing bad or even a little bad happened last week and I’m so scared of this week
Who the hell cares I'm happy! i know some phobias are very serious but some are so obscure and have weird names!
I just ensure that i dont feel too excited because i always feel that the universe wantes me to be miserable
Ah i have this. Stems from when i was having too good of a day as a kid, my mom would make me take a nap
Well, this isn't quite fair on the mosquito. The mosquito isn't killing anyone itself, it is transmitting a disease. By that rationale, humans should carry the can for all human-to-human transmitted diseases, on top of murders, wars, car accidents etc., bringing their total into the millions.
I watched the vid, not only she performed wonderfully, she had a perfect landing, as well. Bravo!
In Germany, when a holiday falls between a workday and the weekend, say Thursday or Tuesday are the holidays, then the Fryday/Monday are holidays too. "Brückentage", bridge days, is the name of this. The whole thing is called "verlängertes Wochenende", enlonged weekend. And in Scandinavia, if a holiday falls on a weekend, it is free the next Monday. This is so to give the people more free time.
I thought this sounded like BS, so I googled it. Turns out there *was* a study that showed the brain is flooded with CSF during deep (non-REM) sleep, and while the researchers who discovered this think that it *might* have a flushing or cleaning effect, there still needs to be a lot more study/research to determine that for certain. Still, an interesting discovery: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/deep-sleep-gives-your-brain-a-deep-clean1/
Wikipedia: Eigengrau (German for "intrinsic gray"), also called Eigenlicht (Dutch and German for "intrinsic light"), dark light, or brain gray, is the uniform dark gray background that many people report seeing in the absence of light. The term Eigenlicht dates back to the nineteenth century, but has rarely been used in recent scientific publications. Common scientific terms for the phenomenon include "visual noise" or "background adaptation". These terms arise due to the perception of an ever-changing field of tiny black and white dots seen in the phenomenon. Eigengrau is perceived as lighter than a black object in normal lighting conditions, because contrast is more important to the visual system than absolute brightness. For example, the night sky looks darker than Eigengrau because of the contrast provided by the stars.
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I totally love bored panda, I look forward to the 10 mins of laughing my socks off everyday
I totally love bored panda, I look forward to the 10 mins of laughing my socks off everyday
