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30 Random Facts About Everything, Shared By A Twitter Account Called “Interesting Facts”
In the old days, people often confused wisdom and erudition. At that time, the whole modern methodology of scientific research had not yet been invented, therefore, whoever knew more scattered random facts about the world around us was sometimes considered a sage.
Now those days are gone, and just knowing a lot of things about everything will only get you through trivia quizzes or might come in handy while playing Jeopardy. But how pleasant it is sometimes to show off one's erudition among friends! And just for such cases, various dedicated Twitter pages - like this one, for example - collect wonderful lists of cool and thrilling facts from here, there and everywhere.
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Thegoodboi 2 years ago
Lol I have a funny scene in my head of a man chasing a woman and she just plays dead and he walks away making sad man noises
Of course, many of the facts in such collections need detailed proofreading and some are partly taken out of context. For example, the one about George Washington, who never knew that dinosaurs existed. Yes, technically, this is absolutely true, but in reality, of course, people found fossils of prehistoric giants long before Washington - just guesses about whose bones these were, were actually far from the truth.
In many ways, we owe the finds of dinosaur bones to numerous myths and legends about dragons, giants, and other fantastic creatures. And only in 1842, the English biologist Richard Owen suggested the term 'dinosaur' per se. So yes, George Washington didn't really know about the existence of dinosaurs. And he did not know about the existence of Neptune as well - after all, the planet was only discovered in 1846.
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Fiona Parky 2 years ago
My great grandad was a horse drover in WW1. He absolutely loved horses and everything about them. After the war he became a shop owner and they had a horse to pull the cart that took the deliveries around. Great grandad came down with a bit of bronchitis and my grandad had to take over the deliveries for a few days. He said the horse stopped at the top of every street and would just follow him down as he made his deliveries so it was always next to him. It also stopped at every single pub they passed and wouldn’t move until he’d been inside. Apparently great grandma was a bit less than impressed when he told her.
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LizzieBoredom 2 years ago
It's interesting that this Mom used a large bowl to cut all her children's hair.
On the other hand, what may seem ridiculous to us is actually of great importance - including scientific too. For example, the book The History and Social Influence of the Potato really exists, and even went through several reprints. And if you think that potatoes have not had any impact on world history, you are clearly mistaken.
In fact, it is enough to recall, for example, the infamous 'Great Famine' in Ireland in 1845-1849, when the potato was the basis of the diet for the poor, and the massive infection of potato crops by pests caused not only famine, but also mass emigration. Mostly to the United States and Canada. To appreciate the scale, just imagine that by the middle of the 19th century, about a quarter of the population of large cities on the east coast of the United States were Irish. And this is just one aspect of the impact potatoes actually had on the history of humanity...
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Two_rolling_black_eyes 2 years ago
This is an amazing book. It created a whole new genre of literature related to the history of nutrients and has been highly influential. You can tell it was well received as its at least a second edition, showing its popularity. The book to the left is the same one but doesn't have nice filigree lettering. Second, there is extensive wear on the book showing frequent use. Decades later, it is still considered the best book ever on the impact of a plant on humanity.
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Tucker Cahooter 2 years ago
Apparently true, trialled in rural Victoria last year. But what they really need is glow-in-the-dark kangaroos so you can see them before they bounce in front of your car
J loves cats 2 years ago
I was just thinking how trippy this looks completely sober. I wonder if people will see it out while in an altered state just because it looks so cool.
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David Paterson 2 years ago
If you mean paint that reflects light from headlights straight back to the driver, making the lines shine brilliantly, that was trialled back 20 years ago. It's now so much the standard all throughout Australia that I can't imagine a road without it. The reflection comes from clear glass spheres embedded in the paint.
Nikole 2 years ago
I don’t think it’s reflective; I think it actually glows in the dark.
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Huddo's sister 2 years ago
They are trialling these on a stretch of highway into a town near me because of the high road toll, but I haven't driven down that way at night yet.
Mark Fuller 2 years ago
Good luck trying to introduce them in the UK. With our weather, they'll see enough sunshine to glow for a weekend. Then all hell will break loose for a couple of months... and repeat.
Timbob 2 years ago
That STILL won’t save anybody from the poisonous snakes or plants or sharks or crocodiles or……….. !
Rhon Young 2 years ago
Yeah because there's no people in Australia, we've all died from all the deadly creatures here!
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Belle Miles 2 years ago
Honestly... I need road signs... and a goal. I NEED to know where I AM!!! Almost... Almost... Almost... Almost... Almost... Almost... Almost... (Savannah) at 80 mph... Oh The road ran out.
Also, pictures like these often make us think and we involuntarily make interesting little discoveries for ourselves - for example, that photo of an old mechanical shopping list dated by the first half of the 20th century presumes that ketchup used to be called 'catsup'. Yes, that's absolutely right - even this early recipe from 1817 calls the sauce 'tomata catsup', and suggests the additions of anchovies and cochineal... By the way, according to this recipe, the resulting prototype of ketchup could be stored for no less than seven years!
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By and large, there is a wonderful and fascinating story behind almost any of the pictures in this collection, which Bored Panda has carefully made especially for you. So please feel free to scroll and read to the very end, and in case at least one of these submissions really interests you, we can rightly say that our work was not in vain. Or you could just enjoy simply scrolling and commenting on it, so please don't hold back!
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Fiona Parky 2 years ago
I had a pair of pet rats called Eric and Ernie (you could tell Ernie because he had the short, fat, hairy legs). Eric was blind and very uncertain about his surroundings sometimes so he used to like to hide in my pocket where he was safe. Ernie used to love lying around my neck like a little scarf. Thing is, I had waist length hair at the time and he was basically invisible under my hair. I used to forget he was there then answer the door, only to watch the postman go pale and run away as Ernie poked his little head out to see who it was. Oops
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Stardust she/her 2 years ago
I had a friendship last for 7 years and then we had to break it off because we grew into different people and couldn’t relate with each other anymore
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
Yesterday, my 2015 iMac warned me that I was running out of application memory, and should close any apps I wasn't using. I only had one app open. It was Chrome...with one tab. I have 8GB of RAM. Corporations are hogging my system resources for tracking to the point that I can't run one bloody app without issues.
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David Wambold 2 years ago
OK. To sum up from the last time this was posted. A short man, a tall man, and a chubby man walk into a bar. The short man orders a highball, the tall man orders a shortball, and the chubby man orders a diet coke. Tall man and short man get their drinks 1st and the chubby man asks where his is. Ten minutes later the waitress brings the chubby man his drink. She looks at him and says "Sorry about the weight."
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Fiona Parky 2 years ago
So, let’s just get this straight. One of the Ten Commandments is Thou Shalt Not Kill, but the Vatican had an official executioner? Was it the shalt or the not they don’t understand?
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Christof Irran 2 years ago
The statement is essentially not too wrong, but not particularly accurate either. A) it's photons, not light. (light is generally understood to be photons with a wavelength that's within the spectrum visible to us.) These photons, when produced, have the wavelength closer to that of gamma rays. B) The trip within the stellar structure "...can take anywhere from a few thousand to a few million years" (170,000 is awfully definitive and is likely made up), and it starts at the inner limit of the Radiative Zone not inside the core. How long for it to get from the Core to the inner limit of the Radiative Zone? Who knows. C) Sure, let's say it's 8 minutes for the sunlight to get to us though it really takes an average of 8 minutes and 20 seconds, depending on how far the earth is from the sun at any given time. "8 minute" is so definite, and that this is sold as a fact without qualifiers shows a lack of knowledge about the structure of our solar system.
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Deborah Rubin 2 years ago
Wyatt Earp spent his last years in Hollywood working as a consultant on western movies.
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Fantastic Mr Fox 2 years ago
Won’t you drown before you can knock out the window? Watch the Myth Busters episode on this. Seems the only way to get out is to calmly wait until the car no longer fills with water. Because then the pressure from water no longer stops you from opening the doors. Windows can’t open because of pressure. Kicking on doors etc make you use up your oxygen before you can get out. Easier said than done to be calm. But they demonstrated it live. It was scary as f***. I paid attention if I ever should find myself in that situation.
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Nikki Sevven 2 years ago
You drunk, science? Those memories are how we learn to not make the same mistakes repeatedly.
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Michelle C 2 years ago
That appears to have some type of live culture… I’m not sure if I would want to drink that..
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Thegoodboi 2 years ago
Ahh I remember the days of fighting to be first, getting it home and firing it up to play your new game for the next 48 hours straight. Now I'm lucky if I can afford the dang thing and you better have good internet because for the next 48 hours straight you'll be installing and updating c**p
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Joe Publique 2 years ago
Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the first iPhone than she did to the building of the great pyramid at Giza. Let that sink in...
Sleepy Panda 2 years ago
Once again there were no new ‘facts’, just the same facts copied from every other ‘amazing historical facts’ post you make.
Joe Publique 2 years ago
Cleopatra lived closer to the release of the first iPhone than she did to the building of the great pyramid at Giza. Let that sink in...
Sleepy Panda 2 years ago
Once again there were no new ‘facts’, just the same facts copied from every other ‘amazing historical facts’ post you make.
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