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.
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.
Handmade, well yes - I didn’t think they had a massive banana statue making machine.
I think its a temporary and then they may distribute the bananas to people.
Load More Replies...It's Lord Ganesha, a Hindu deity. There's a story on how he got the elephant head
Load More Replies...How to keep it in shape? Won't rain bring destruction to the holly incarnation of divine?
Then they eat the bananas, and then make another statue.
Load More Replies..."Come... It is time to keep your appointment, with the banana elephant".
I'm a banana I'm a banana I'm a banana Look at me move, yeah yeah I'm a banana I'm a banana I'm a banana Look at me move, ah Banana power Banana power Banana power Power Banana power Banana power Banana power Look at me move Uh oh banana time Uh oh banana time Uh oh banana time Stop Stop Stop Carts, farts, marts, darts Hearts, starts, carts, marts Carts, marts, darts, farts Darts, starts, hearts, ah Chicken, chicken, chicken I am Chicken, chicken Chicken Stop Look at me Look at me move I'm a banana I'm a banana I'm a banana
How long before it collapses, or do the bananas get taken down as soon as they beging to ripen?
Honey? Why is there a 20 foot tall pile of black rotting fruit in our yard? You know it’s hot here right?
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.
Imagine the dedication of that builder! 1.5 million beers in only 2 years. That's about a bottle every 40 seconds 24/7! Sir, I salute you! 👏
Did they just try out random chemical compounds in the hopes that one of them would turn green or yellow or whatever?
The Irish invented Guinness and whiskey. They should be on the table.
Come on, this is a legend, a myth, an allegory, not a fact. This is completely natural and absolutely not man made.
Seen a "life hack" on youtube recenlty, fill a glass with water and add few spoonfuls of salt then add a strawberry and watch closely....
800mm calibre, originally designed to break the Maginot line it was moved to Sevastopol where it fired 46 shots during the siege. It's also one of two build guns
Old news. Nowadays a similar program, also from Nvidia, can create an almost realistic video based solely on prompts.
This photo appears to be staged and was taken much later than 1920, the dress, stockings, and shoes are from the 1940s-50s. Each of these dryers is on its own wheeled stand, so they obviously were created to be used separately rather than as a blast furnace for some ladies face. The first hairdryer was invented in the 1890s, it was a hood-type and used an external heat source. The first handheld electric dryers came out in the early 1920s and looked surprisingly similar to the ones we have today.
Please please please don’t shoot at them just to test this… 🙏 No animal is completely bulletproof, do not hurt animals, and stop f***ing around with guns.
Okay, call me a buzzkill, but I'm not too confident that if three of them can destroy a building, all that one is gonna do is "stun" you (I mean, of course, if your arms and legs are torn off, that would most definitely be stunning)
This is not possible since Mars has so low atmospheric pressure that any liquid water would instantly boil and became vapor. Only solid ice or water vapor
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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