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.”
In China's case it's all monoculture plantations so there's no biodiversity. Don't know about India
Well, the same thing was done in Germany a long time ago and this problem is slowly being fixed over decades. Reforresting is a start. Diversity will come later because, apparently, it is impossible for countries to learn from other countries mistakes. -_- Still, a start.
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We're gonna need that to make up for Brazil burning down half the Amazon rain forest.
Worry about the plankton in the ocean, it recycles far more CO2, than the supposed, "Lungs of the planet."
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These are likely just artificial tree fields which will never get a chance to grow into a real forest, with all the biodiversity and the capacity to resist climate change and other environmental issues. Besides, while these new plantations are still growing, China is actually pillaging forests in the rest of the world to maintain its heavy wood industry. So, not as a good news at it seems, unfortunately.
We made mistakes, corrected them and we're marching ahead with a greener, fresher world
This is a general, overall increase in trees being planted. Governments understand now that trees are good. Johannesburg and the surrounding cities and counties is the world's largest artificial forest and the largest metropolitan area with the highest number of cars with the lowest CO2 air concentration for such a megacity.
I read about this. China planted them to stop the advance of the desert.
A while ago, there was a 'info'-desk of people who thought climatechange was not real or not something we can influence. One of their arguments was 'look, our world is much greener than in the 80s' So, obviously, it is all hysteria. This drives me crazy, because I still remember the droughts and environmental disasters, back then - and all the measure taken against them. Saying 'hey, Acid rain was no real, because, look, we don't have that problem anymore' is just insane. We don't have that problem, anymore, BECAUSE WE FIXED IT!! And it could be fixed, because back then, there was no internet where thousands of people convinced each other of 'alternative facts'.
I live on the prairies, where trees only grow in river valleys. It's strange to look at very old pictures of the two cities I've lived in and see older neighbourhoods on open grassland with a few tiny saplings planted out front. Now when you drive through those neighbourhoods it's a forest of mature conifers and old poplars.
I found the global map. VERY encouraging. Most of the Earth is much greener, except the Eastern edges of Brazil and Tropical Africa.
Don't forget the green belt across Northern Africa, which is helping prevent the spread of the Sahara as well as obviously being good for the planet because greenery/trees = good. :) China is monoculture though sadly
I suspect at last great part of this plantation is for economic purpose, aka source for paper industry, energy source, furniture, etc.
At least someone is doing something to try and make a dent into global warming
It's already done, and still being done. In total, the estimated forest cover in the conterminous United States is 36.2%, or a whopping 818.8 million acres. The United States contains 8% of the world's forests, there are more trees than there were 100 years ago. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) ....there are approximately 3.04 trillion trees exist on the planet today https://twosidesna.org/paper-production-supports-sustainable-forest-management/
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We need to plant more trees in places like Arizona and New Mexico.....
Pakistan's right next to India. No one mentions their Billion tree Tsunami project
Wrong. China's #1, the US is #2. And China's #1 only because the US is getting it to make everything for it. So, go figure.
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“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!
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
