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!
An elephant trunk poking out of Loch Ness is behind the most famous "monster" photos. There was a visiting circus nearby.
The guy who took the original photo that is so famous admitted it was fake after his partner died. https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/lochness/legend3.html. A descendant still has the model they used to fake it. The guy who took the 2nd most famous picture was a tour guide who admits it was a fake he made up to drive up business and he admits to still using the lie. (https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2013/oct/04/loch-ness-monster-picture-fake)
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The Asian nations that border the ocean and have elephants all navy/coast guard divisions to rescue them. Elephants are some of the best swimmers in the world but sometimes an elephant goes for a swim in the ocean, gets out of sight of land, then starts swimming circles because they are lost. Most of the time, they just send a couple small boats with ropes and the elephant will follow back to the beach. India has a helicopter/flatboat situation to getting one back if necessary. The other navies can buoy the elephant up until they arrive. Elephants can get far enough out they'd die of exhaustion trying to get back. Here's one from Sri Lanka. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrSE4IRrCwI
Everybody's seen that fuzzy old black and white photo of the Loch Ness Monster. Traveling circuses used to stop at Drumnadrochit and let the elephants go skinny dipping, so there's a possibility that it's just a picture of an elephant's trunk. Tigers are very good swimmers too. If they get driven away from their mainland habitat, they can swim a few miles to an island and set up a new home.
No, there's no possibility that photo was an elephant. The son of the man who took the photo eventually told how they did it.
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Not only do they have good memory, but also excellent swimmers. A whole lot better than me, that's for sure. lol
I wonder if being in the water that long makes them prune-y and adds to their already copious wrinkles...
Had a cousin that was 368 pds about 5' 6" and yet when she dove off a diving board, there was ) splash. Always amazed me
So theoretically, Elephants could swim across to Europe from Africa (after a long trek lmao), given the narrowest point of the Mediterranean (Strait of Gibraltar) between the continents is 8 miles wide, then an elephant could also cross the English channel (around 21 miles iirc) o.O
According to legend, two elephants escaped from a circus in Coney Island, Brooklyn in the 1800s. One swam across the harbor to Staten Island and was calmly walking around and grazing. NYPD lured it to the precinct with hay and set it up in the horse stable until it could be retrieved. The other was found not far from Coney Island.
Edit: before anyone Googles elephants & Coney Island (a VERY sad story comes up), here’s a link: https://untappedcities.com/2020/05/22/the-brave-escape-of-alice-the-elephant-who-swam-from-coney-island-to-staten-island/
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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
