50 Interesting Facts About The World You Probably Didn’t Learn At School, As Shared By This Instagram Page
Living in the 21st century has its perks, but it often means we are awash at sea in an ocean of data, information, history, and research. Fortunately, infotainment is the lifeboat we all need. By gathering those morsels of engaging information and presenting it in a bite-sized form, it can help us learn about the world around us in a way that doesn’t put us to sleep.
One good example of this is the “Interesting Facts” Instagram, which, unsurprisingly, focuses on curious and possibly less-known bits of trivia. So be sure to upvote your favorites as you scroll and comment what you learned.
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Blessed soul, although a little sad he had to do it by himself
Given the idiots in charge, that's accurate. The irony is that "The Green" (party) makes decisions that cause more warming instead of using better technologies
It can be somewhat hard to pin down what exactly makes a fact “fun,” since for most of us, fun time activities are aggressively subjective. You couldn’t pay me to collect stamps, but for some, it’s a lifelong pursuit. So for me, a fun fact is that “scraunched" and "strengthed” share the title for the longest-spelled one-syllable words in English. Note that it’s not “strengthened,” but the considerably less common "strengthed,” which is the simple past tense and past participle of strength. The fact that sometimes strength can be used as a verb might be an additional fact for some, though perhaps not quite “fun.”
A fun fact that might actually be useful during, say, a trivia competition is that one mile in every five must be straight in the US interstate highway system. However, it’s a bit of a trick, as there is an urban legend stating that this was so airplanes could land on it during emergencies or times of war. While this is a happy side effect, this was not actually the intention behind this regulation. Even "worse," this law did not actually exist, though in hindsight it does not sound like a bad idea.
This often is true for many fun facts. They simply are passed around and repeated, but bear little to no connection to reality. The good news is that you aren’t eating spiders in your sleep. Despite the fact that some male spiders really do have a thing for being eaten. Just not by you. Setting spiders aside, (thank goodness) this does demonstrate a common problem with fun facts, namely, that they often are just wrong.
We can start debunking at breakfast. Coffee is a staple drink in most households, offices, and elsewhere. Those seeking a heavy dose of caffeine can turn to the trusty espresso, which tastes stronger than your average cup of joe. Well, despite a truly bitter flavor profile, it actually has just as much caffeine as a regular serving of coffee. And while we are on this topic, coffee beans are not beans at all (which now probably seems painfully obvious) and are in fact just seeds.
Now that we’ve subtracted coffee from the legume family, we can replace it with an unlikely candidate. Peanuts, despite the name, are not nuts. They are, in fact, part of the bean family. And to screw with your understanding of foods, avocados are fruits. Regarding peanuts, people with nut allergies might be curious why this bean causes them issues. It actually has a chemical composition much closer to other tree nuts, like a walnut or almond. It does grow underground, however.
When Teslar said he was going to take the most intelligent picture ever, bet they all gathered together like that to watch him take a selfie!
Enough ruining food, let’s consider some classic myths that we all were sure of as children. We can all imagine the classic bullfighter, with a snappy outfit and red cape. The red, or so the story goes, infuriates the bull. Except, it doesn’t, as bulls are basically colorblind. If anything, the red color is to make it more visible to the audience, not the animal. Bulls, however, are territorial and somewhat aggressive and are infuriated, like Edna "E" Mode, by capes.
This is some Lovecraftian s**t right here. "Through its squamous and rugose eyes the caprine monstrosity saw cyclopean non-Euclidean geometry of the kind mere man could never dare to contemplate". Special goat-only angles, like three hundred and eighty degrees and squeven seconds.
I think it enables them to see predators in their peripheral vision.
HA! xD Evidently they are great in math, they know angles Einstein himself never discovered!
Load More Replies...Horses have this too! I knew this because I have horses and they like to get right up in my face! :)
Horses do too, it's only harder to notice because their eyes are darker. It's a casual feature in prey and flight animals actually.
Adding that eyeballs in general give me the ick. Goat eyes are just the worst
Load More Replies...Trade in your eyes for goat eyes! I bet you could find someone on Craigslist to do it!
Load More Replies...Which is probably true for most animals whose eye sight differs from human pupils.
My understanding is that pupil shape is dependent on whether you are a prey animal or are a predator..Goats are prey, so their eyes are designed to have landscape vision and are on the sides of the head to see predators sneaking up on them. There are actually plenty of animals with similar eye shape to humans, because round pupils are a predator shape. But sometimes there are modifications, especially if the species is nocturnal. So pupil shape can go from round down to a vertical slit, in cats, for example.
Load More Replies...They can see the many angled ones and are emissaries for the Lloigor.
This is not always true. They also have round and rectangular pupils that go up and down. I have goats, they have many shapes. Goats have perfect balanced e this is why they "stick like glue" and love to be at the top of everything. I've had some "disadvantaged goat kids" in my house at various time to make sure they lived. Then when they get big they still think they should be "official house goats".
Is this how they manage to climb things that appear to be impossible to climb and they see just the right angles to stable themselves on?
Along with many other prey animals (horses, deer, zebra, sheep, elk ect.)
I hate the wording on this, it's like there are hidden angles only goats can see. What it really means is they can see a wider angle (ie: have a greater field of vision) than a human.
What a load of rubbish, if human eyes were on the side of our heads, we would see a load more angles.
It isn't just that the eyes are on the side of the head. The pupil shape gives them landscape vision, a necessary trait for spotting predators.
Load More Replies...Now, cats and dogs are often thought to be colorblind, but in reality, they do see a few shades of different pigments. They can see blue, gray, and yellow, as well as whatever can be mixed out of them. Unlike the common depictions of black and white, it’s better to think of their vision as similar to that of a person with colorblindness. This is particularly interesting since both animals have pretty different eyesight abilities, from cats who can see a fly crawling on a wall on the other side of a room, to dogs who manage to not notice the whole cat they just sat on.
To combine the two, avoid giving your cat milk. They are lactose intolerant, though like many humans, still enjoy milk and its products. While it’s not deadly, unless, in excessive amounts, milk will cause gastrointestinal issues. For outdoor cats, it’s not a big deal, but if you own an indoor cat, be prepared for some cleanup. On the other hand, they still do get the necessary vitamins and minerals from milk and tend to enjoy drinking it, which can’t be said about all food as some are excessively picky eaters.
The iceberg that struck the Titanic was 100,000 years old at the time of impact.
I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing this and been just fine
In this street only. The fire hydrant is as long as needed to reach the main water pipe. Could be shorter, could be longer.
Now, finally, some fun facts that you can actually use. If you plan to do a coin toss that you really want to win, use a penny and bet on tails. Lincoln's head actually makes the coin unbalanced and that side is 80% more likely to face down. And if you can’t use a penny, because, honestly, who keeps spare pennies around when using a normal coin, attempt to bet on the face that was up when it’s thrown. It has a, roughly, 1% better chance of landing in your favor. And if you want to explore more fun facts from around the world, check out our other articles here, here, and here.
One of the greatest minds ever. And died destitute and alone, because the great American capitalist didn't like him.
Gee, wouldn't it be nice to know at least the name of the place, let alone the reason for all those walls? Darn these lazy Panda contributors, they need to do some actual research! Baljenac/Bavljenac is a small island in the Šibenik archipelago – an islet, to be more precise, measuring only 0.14 km2 in size – that owes its peculiar nickname to a labyrinth of dry stone walls covering its entire surface. Viewed from above, oval-shaped and stamped with a unique pattern, the islet truly does resemble a fingerprint. Those dry stone walls, in their incredible total length of 23 km, were built by the residents of the neighbouring island Kaprije as demarcation lines. The villagers cultivated the entire surface of the tiny landform, planting vineyards, figs, pears and other crops on individual parcels enveloped by the walls. The crops were abandoned a couple of decades ago, but the island hasn’t been forgotten – in 2016, an initiative was launched to inscribe Baljenac in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
Okay but this flat map doesn't accurately reflect the countries sizes on the same scale, because Russia gets enlarged by being close to the north pole and thus having to be stretched quite a bit to fit on a flat map that has the least distortion around the equator. It is still significantly bigger, but this map doesn't offer an accurate comparison.
This is about twenty miles away from where I live. A funny thing I like to do when in the cafe there, when the tourists ask me "how do you say the name of this place"... i reply very slowly "C-A-F-E". Sometimes they laugh, often they don't. True story.
I wonder why is it called mouse if the first one looked less like a mouse than the recent ones
Did he write any novel or was this the ultimate procrastination project?
The poor man had a very difficult and sad life, and was a showcase in a circus, known as the 'Alton Giant'. He had to wear leg braces his whole life, and died at the age of 22. It's a very sad story.
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title is about Facts but we are getting many pictures without explaining (don't get me wrong I like those pictures)But there should be more about facts right?
View the pictures separately, and many of them actually have facts.
Load More Replies...title is about Facts but we are getting many pictures without explaining (don't get me wrong I like those pictures)But there should be more about facts right?
View the pictures separately, and many of them actually have facts.
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