40 Random And Fascinating Facts About Our World You Might Not Have Heard Of, By UberFacts

Roselle is the bestest girl!

What a fantastic way to protest. Genius.

Mark Hamill is such a good guy. I appreciate him as a voice actor as well.

That's a great idea as it is very encouraging to return.

Liechtenstein was invaded by Swiss armed forces on at least four occasions, they took a wrong turning, for two of which Switzerland apologized and Lichtenstein had no idea why.

Wowwww... I love this

Smart man, too bad most politicians want to hold onto many archaic laws.

US companies need to follow suit.

Nevermind Trump making me miss Barack Obama, he even makes me pine for the days when GW Bush was in power. George and Michelle's easy-going friendship demonstrates that democrats and republicans are not mortal enemies, as Trump would have you believe. A good leader unites his countrymen, not divides them like der Drumpf.

Youch!

A stellar representative of the US.

This does not surprise me in the least.

A reverse compliment.

Wait 9 years.

I like that he was that confident in his ability to turn her off that he took his stalker out to dinner

Oopsie

This is still in practice today. Der Drumpf calls it "fake news".

Come on Wolverine... keep up!

Not calling out either side here because i completely support peoples right to protest. But 7% of thousands of protests can still do quite a lot of damage and at least 25 people have died from protests / political unrest.

If dreams are that medically reliable, the evil purple minion inside me should be born soon

I totally get that.

Trump is an idiot.......Wow who the F**K knew? Damn this honesty just spills out of my mouth.....

ha! but still sad

This is what I’ll tell myself happened on my thirtieth birthday.

There are more terrorist attacks/threats on US home soil than terrorist threats/attacks from other countries. This is why their gun laws are pathetic, you are more likely to be accidentally shot by your own gun than by a terrorist from another country.

And just like today, there's a lady who's wearing it incorrectly.

And he never dreamed it would work into years.

That’s coz bing sucks.

Dont take yourself too seriously is a good life lesson

Goes to show that just because someone is a janitor doesn’t mean they aren’t educated and also just because you have a PHD doesn’t mean you will get a job in that field. I am curious to know how many refugees also have PHD’s that aren’t recognised in their new home.

I have a PhD in Religion from Marquette University and two master's degrees in Church History and New Testament. I left academia to be close to family and to start a nonprofit urban farm to feed food-insecure people in my community. I had to take an entry-level job to pay the bills and keep my family fed while I build our movement and run a nonprofit with no pay. There are many, many compelling reasons that highly-educated people choose to work at jobs that do not require their education.

Wonder where those PhDs were from? It's ridiculous to know that a PhD isn't a PhD... depending on the country... and that there doesn't appear to be a system in place to make a PhD or Master's transferrable. I knew at least 2 couriers who had PhDs... one was a honest-to-jeebus Rocket Scientist (yes. Fully qualified Engineer/Physics/Tech post-doc)... BUT... the qualifications were from another country. Another was/is a Fertility specialist, MD AND PhD with ... genetics focus? I asked about what happened... and apparently there is no equivalency test... or a 1 year "This is how we do things in this country"... They were told "You have to *re-do all of your education from the ground up* if they wanted to practice here. THAT... is a problem.

This is an absolutely true story. I work for a nonprofit and business development. We have several associates who have talked about their refugee and immigrant folks who are janitors and cleaning ladies and construction workers, simply because their education doesn’t transfer to the United States.

I teach English to a Brazilian who has a law degree and a PhD in chemistry. He believes he would have to 'go back to school' to be able to work in his professions in the US, but not in Europe or Canada.

Assuming that there are far far more than only 10,000 or so janitors in the US, this is a really small number

I'd lay odds that most of them are degrees for things with little practical application.

You can have a PhD in literature. Don’t assume phd = qualified doctor to treat illnesses

good work

ultimately, the guy who can fix the plumbing in the executive washroom is more valuable to society than anyone behind a desk.

Sometimes this can be the result of a mental health problem of some sort. There is a well-documented thin line between genius and madness, and some brilliant folks who get well educated later run into trouble with anxiety, depression, voices, etc. Then they cannot sustain the mental effort involved in research or professor-type jobs, so they need something manual like janitorial work (I know a few who are in this situation).

So? A PhD does not entitle you to anything. Value to an employer does.

and a goodly share of them are not American born - we waste the well educated in this country.

That is so sad. I especially think of immigrants. They used to have a PhD but they don't now because they moved to the US

Goes to show that sometimes educated people are smart enough to get jobs that give satisfaction for a job well done and peace of mind because the job is fairly low stress.

i ended up having a great professor & the relationship became a friendship. when i told him i was considering pursuing my doctorate he told me to always remember that would be great if it was what i really wanted to do but to always remember that Phd stood for 'piled high and deep'.

Wow

This does not surprise me, at all, how many also, in low paying positions !!!

just as there are nurses from other countries who were m.d.'s in their countries.