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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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Take me to dinner first 3 years ago
Blessed soul, although a little sad he had to do it by himself
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
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
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karl briggs 3 years ago
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!
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Seamus Crumley 3 years ago
The iceberg that struck the Titanic was 100,000 years old at the time of impact.
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Rebelliousslug 3 years ago
I could have gone the rest of my life without knowing this and been just fine
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Donkeywheel 3 years ago
In this street only. The fire hydrant is as long as needed to reach the main water pipe. Could be shorter, could be longer.
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Fish Fingers 3 years ago
One of the greatest minds ever. And died destitute and alone, because the great American capitalist didn't like him.
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2WheelTravlr 3 years ago (edited)
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.
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H.M. V. 3 years ago
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.
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karl briggs 3 years ago
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.
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Take me to dinner first 3 years ago
I wonder why is it called mouse if the first one looked less like a mouse than the recent ones
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Edward Finger Hands 3 years ago
Did he write any novel or was this the ultimate procrastination project?
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Seamus Crumley 3 years ago
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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Bill McDowall 3 years ago
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! 👏
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Markus Holstein 3 years ago
Did they just try out random chemical compounds in the hopes that one of them would turn green or yellow or whatever?
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Seamus Crumley 3 years ago
The Irish invented Guinness and whiskey. They should be on the table.
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Donkeywheel 3 years ago
Come on, this is a legend, a myth, an allegory, not a fact. This is completely natural and absolutely not man made.
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Markus Holstein 3 years ago
with a volume-to-surface ratio like this, most apartments in this thing will not have any windows. I hope people in Kunshan like living without sunlight
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karl briggs 3 years ago
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....
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TotallyNOTaFox 3 years ago
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
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Ali H M Salehuddin 3 years ago
Old news. Nowadays a similar program, also from Nvidia, can create an almost realistic video based solely on prompts.
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2WheelTravlr 3 years ago
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.
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Natalie Cilla 3 years ago
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.
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Markus Holstein 3 years ago
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)
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Tomáš Houdek 3 years ago
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
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真壁まつり 3 years ago
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?
Tim 3 years ago
View the pictures separately, and many of them actually have facts.
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真壁まつり 3 years ago
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?
Tim 3 years ago
View the pictures separately, and many of them actually have facts.
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