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.”
The rats aren't really drowning, just stuck in water. They are literally 100% safe and unharmed. Then their friend rescues them and shares chocolate.
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So stop calling people dirty rats! They are quite clean and nicer than way too many humans I've met
My ratties were the best... such intelligent and loving creatures!
To everyone saying this is animal cruelty: it is not, the rats were not in any danger, they were not drowning, just stuck in water, there was a podcast made about the experiment a few weeks ago: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3olHsFBu9yz9lPntf1KzvV?si=m4BNnC5pTamxGIrQLLlfsg
The intelligence of rats has been well established, and now empathy is demonstrated as well. Our sons loved rats as pets, the domesticated variety. We found them not only bright and cuddly but they keep themselves clean and silky, and were attached to their owners. I assume and hope the testers did not let any of them drown when others were given the choices. It was hard for me to change my opinion of domesticated rats, but I'm so glad our son insisted. The are delightful, affectionate pets.
What's new? Animals are way more empathetic than majority of people - boiling animals alive, heinously torturing them for fun...... yes, if words hurt, silence kills. - "Until he extends the circle of his compassion to ALL living things, man will NOT himself find peace." - Albert Schweitzer
I know from personal experience they rescue each other from live traps... They are very smart and social.
Same as get chocolate or the other rat gets an electric shock, rats are such kind little animals.
I’m horrified as to why this experiment was conducted to begin with. Animals are not your toys to play with and test things on. They feel and think just as we humans do. If you feel as comfortable doing this test with rats, or any other animal, ur sick and need help. STOP ANIMAL TESTING AND CRUELTY.
"Domesticated rats" are rather intelligent and despite being somewhat unattractive when compared to their prettier cousins, show strong emotions of neglect or attention.
Do you mean pet rats are less attractive than wild rats? Just curious as I don’t know much about them!
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exacyly how would they figure this out! stop experimenting with animals!!!
Maybe just a chocolate treat wouldn’t have satisfied him. Just sayin.
Who tf thought of THIS experiment?? What was there initial thought process?
Wouldn't they still survive if they chose not to save the other rat? You know, "every rat for themselves" sounds far more like survival than "risk life to save other rat" but maybe that's just me.
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I wonder what a human would do? Ignorance is bliss so is chocolate to some humans!
Save the drowning person then buy chocolate for both of us - simples!
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They are pragmatic though. If all other food sources disappear they will eat each other.
AND this is why experimenting on animals in laboratories is absolutely horrifying. May those lab workers be denigrated and ostracized, punished for their abuse.
Most mammals will attempt to help one of their own when given the choice. Heck, not just mammals. Tortoises will try to flip over a tortoise that has ended on its back. Why are we so surprised? And to the humans who are drowning the rat? What would science say about your empathy?
Not to say there haven't been horrific studies conducted (thankfully lessening), but I believe the behavioral experiments they're talking about here are set up in a way that the one rat thinks the other is in trouble but the other is actually not (at least similar experiments have been done that way). It's not very nice to make an animal think another is in danger, but the more it can be supported that animals are thinking, feeling creatures, the easier it will be to get protection for them as such.
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They're only saving their fellow rat so they can f**k it. Would you choose chocolate over sex?
“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!
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
