40 Random And Fascinating Facts About Our World You Might Not Have Heard Of, By UberFacts
UberFacts says it shares "the most unimportant things you'll never need to know" and I have to admit, that's a pretty accurate description of its content. Launched in 2009, the Internet project provides people with random facts on all kinds of topics.
From the number of janitors in the US with PhDs to the genius way Swedes protested their government classifying homosexuality as an illness, these titbits of information will make you an expert on trivia in no time. So grab yourself some broccoli (random fact: the vegetable is rich in vitamin K, and a few studies in older adults have linked a higher vitamin K intake to better memory), continue scrolling, and upvote your favorite entries!
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As it turns out, there are some biological reasons behind people's desire to "store" trivia in their brain and the rush of excitement they feel when they get the chance to use it. According to psychologist John Kounios Ph.D., it's a lot like playing roulette, too.
"You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning," the professor of psychology and director of the doctoral program in applied cognitive and brain sciences at Drexel University in Pennsylvania, told Healthline. "I think whenever you're challenged with a trivia question and you happen to know it, you get a rush. It's sort of like gambling."
He said the benefits can also be similar to those of playing video games. However, unlike gambling and video games, trivia is generally not a potentially dangerous habit, Kounios said.
"I don't think there are any pitfalls. Like anything else that's fun, it takes up time."
Moreover, retaining information about things we're interested in can be like an exercise for the frontal cortex as the brain ages.
"That's the first thing to go with injury or with age if we don't use it," Deborah Stokes, Ph.D., L.P.C., B.C.N., a psychologist in Virginia who focuses on neurotherapy, said.
So there you have it, folks. Browsing trivia isn't a waste of time. It's a mental workout!
Smart man, too bad most politicians want to hold onto many archaic laws.
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.
Don't get fooled by the appearances, people. I'm going to tell you a true story I witnessed with my own eyes. This young man was wearing a mask, we were all waiting for the lift, in a semi-closed space. He took his mask, sneezed, uncovered (at least he made sure it was not in our direction), and put his mask back on. Yeah, that happened.
I mean I kind of get why he did it, it was a serious asshole move, but I get why.
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It's supposed to, dufus. This is what we call an echo-chamber. Bias confirmation. Stroking the ego. Think Jonestown and devotees of Xenu. Yes. Trump is quite likely a clinical narcissist, but the aim is not to avoid narcissists being elected to presidency but rather to funnel as large a number of people through a particular gate. And who is supposed to benefit, one way or another? You? Cute.
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...and don't forget Trump supporters. Oops, my bad. Lil repetitive I guess lol
people with common sense are more likely to refuse to wear face diapers.
I know someone who is JUST like this... and I was musing that I think they might be a narcissistic psychopath only a few weeks before observing this behaviour... funny.
That's right, Narcissist believe their face are too pretty to be covered, and Psychopaths don't have any empathy wether the others got sick or not.
That's strange. I'm both a psychopath AND a narcissist and I always wear a mask. Hmmm..
Um, yeah - we already knew that. The head narcissistic psychopath is the one who started telling the country they weren't necessary. Too bad we didn't have actual scientists and medical professionals to set him straight (like BEFORE he allowed 230,000+ of my countrymen to die). I hate that lying sack of s**t with every fiber of my being. You bet I voted for Biden!
And people that don't trust the constantly shifting narrative of doom.
they are avid followers of Darwinism and I hope they continue the trend.
The fact trump and his base are narcissist and psychopaths. They can't even conceive of the greater good.
Being psychotic and being a psychopath is NOT the same. Psychosis means you have hallucinations and delusions. A psychopath is somebody who lack normal empathy. Psychosis is a mental illness, a psychopath has a personality disorder.
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Don't we know it. We can recognise that in the guilty people we see every day.
A study done by a group of researchers in Poland published in the Personality and Individual Differences journal earlier this year.
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Anyone neurodivergant ok, im not trying to be an ass here, but as someone with Autism I HATE most feelings of stuff on my face, I often wind up not seeing because I cant wear my glasses, plus I have Trigeminal Neuralgia so anything on my face HURTS BAD.
This one is questionable. Narcissists in particular would often be more likely to do the seemingly virtuous thing when in public because they prefer to be viewed in a favourable light. Psychopaths would be more likely to do whatever suits their particular agenda. Also, neither of these groups are inherently bad and it is very bad form to be speaking of such groups - personality disorders are mental health issues usually linked to traumatic experiences in childhood. Like, you can't talk about potential predatory behaviour simply because they wear a dress and so must be accepted due to the inherent virtue and harmlessness of wearing a dress, yet it's perfectly acceptable to denigrate based upon an - association - with untreated and possibly unidentified maladaptive behaviours. People with these diagnoses are people, too, and they aren't all out to get you you f*****g pious cowards.
*to be speaking of them in this way, framed like this
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though i think everyone should wear masks, this sounds like an uber opinion
People refuse a mask because they don’t understand how the disease spreads, not because they don’t care. Psychopaths and narcissistists are not dumb, they likely do wear a mask to at least protect themselves. Another things is that psychopaths and narcissistists do actually care about others, not in the same way that everybody else does but they are not cold and empty monsters. Ever heard of the trolley problem? A psychopath is more likely to sacrifice a few to save many because they think about what saves the most people, while other people would not be able to sacrifice even one person even if that meant it would save 100 people because of emotional attachment. So with that in mind, I find it very unlikely that a psychopath wouldn’t want to wear a mask to protect the masses, because they understand things from a purely logical point of view. What drives people to go against science and recommendations is an emotional rebellion, something a psychopath doesn’t even have within them.
It’s like imagining a computer refusing to do what it’s told to do because it lack emotions, which is nonsense because it’s the very lack of emotional response that makes the computer do what it’s told because it doesn’t feel, it only thinks. Logic. No protests.
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This explains a lot (to those who hadn’t already figured it out). Also, I guess narcissism and psychopathy have become an epidemic of their own in the US; affecting approximately 40% of the population. Then again, since there are similar factions in other countries, I guess you could say it’s another pandemic.
antisocial personality disorder affects 1% to 4% of the US population. Please do your research before leaving incorrect comments. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4649950/ It is estimated that NPD is present in 0.5% of the general United States population and in 2-16% of those who seek help from a mental health professional. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2669224/
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And scared and easily manipulated people are more likely to wear them!
If it turned out that COVID-19 was a hoax... I wouldn't regret taking precautions because I was trying to protect others.
Load More Replies... I doubt that for many reasons. A lot of people as a whole hate masks. Omg this is such BS! Not a true fact. You'll need a longer field research study on this anyways.
I hate wearing a mask, but I will always wear one in public places and outdoors. I want to protect myself and others. It is the decent thing to do in these precarious times. To not do so is completely irresponsible and spiteful.
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This isn't a fact, it's an opinion. S**t like this is how Trump (English for Fart) is able to manipulate media x
On the contrary my dear this was a published study done in Poland.
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William Hart, Charlotte Kinrade, Christopher J.Breeden. Revisiting narcissism and contingent self-esteem: A test of the psychodynamic mask model. Personality and Individual Differences. Mar 26 2020; 162 (1). Doi: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110026
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I like that he was that confident in his ability to turn her off that he took his stalker out to dinner
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
Trump is an idiot.......Wow who the F**K knew? Damn this honesty just spills out of my mouth.....
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.
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 too, am hated because of my superior plumbing skills 😞. I feel you Mario.
That’s okay the US voting system is flawed anyway, some peoples votes don’t even count because of the state they live in.
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An accurate description for all of Bored Panda, really.
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I hate it when I get a notification that someone replied to my post only for BoredPanda to make it impossible to find (I've refreshed this page several times and I still can't see comments where I KNOW I made them... Although usually it's because the thing I commented on has been cut from the page - which would seem to happen at different times in different places since I can still get upvotes on things I said that are no longer visible to myself...?)
I use the desktop version too & the only way I find a comment is to look at the picture & scroll thru post to find
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My favorite random fact. Once interrupted, it takes over half an hour to return to the same level of concentration. Not sure if this is considered a fact, but it sure feels like it is.
When open floor plans at offices became "normal," I knew I'd have to quit office life for good.
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What happened to all the posts? first there was over 100, then it was reduced to 95 and now it is 85.
Maybe posts that were revealed to not actually be "facts" were removed? (I only read them now, though, so I don't know what posts disappeared.)
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The man who developped the BMI was a statistician, and statistician are heavily involved in all part of sciences and even more in medicine. Every clinical study to get a new drug on the market involved a lot of statistics. To dismiss Quetelet's work because he was not a doctor of medicine shows a misunderstanding of how science works. He was working on obesity and population growth and developped this index as a growth marker, not an health marker. It was adopted as an health marker years after some studies in the 60's showed its reliability.
Load More Replies... Why does so many complainers say left or left leaning? You realize that you have no idea what you are talking about?
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An accurate description for all of Bored Panda, really.
Load More Replies... I hate it when I get a notification that someone replied to my post only for BoredPanda to make it impossible to find (I've refreshed this page several times and I still can't see comments where I KNOW I made them... Although usually it's because the thing I commented on has been cut from the page - which would seem to happen at different times in different places since I can still get upvotes on things I said that are no longer visible to myself...?)
I use the desktop version too & the only way I find a comment is to look at the picture & scroll thru post to find
Load More Replies... My favorite random fact. Once interrupted, it takes over half an hour to return to the same level of concentration. Not sure if this is considered a fact, but it sure feels like it is.
When open floor plans at offices became "normal," I knew I'd have to quit office life for good.
Load More Replies... What happened to all the posts? first there was over 100, then it was reduced to 95 and now it is 85.
Maybe posts that were revealed to not actually be "facts" were removed? (I only read them now, though, so I don't know what posts disappeared.)
Load More Replies... The man who developped the BMI was a statistician, and statistician are heavily involved in all part of sciences and even more in medicine. Every clinical study to get a new drug on the market involved a lot of statistics. To dismiss Quetelet's work because he was not a doctor of medicine shows a misunderstanding of how science works. He was working on obesity and population growth and developped this index as a growth marker, not an health marker. It was adopted as an health marker years after some studies in the 60's showed its reliability.
Load More Replies... Why does so many complainers say left or left leaning? You realize that you have no idea what you are talking about?
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