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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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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.
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.
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...
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.
Pandas, we’re going on a road trip! i’ll get the Lada
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!
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!
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
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
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.
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."
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?
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.
Ah yes, I did mine when I was 23. Tricky to explain the gap in the CV though.
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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...
Once again there were no new ‘facts’, just the same facts copied from every other ‘amazing historical facts’ post you make.
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...
Once again there were no new ‘facts’, just the same facts copied from every other ‘amazing historical facts’ post you make.
