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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.

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So there you have it, folks. Browsing trivia isn't a waste of time. It's a mental workout!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Ray Heap
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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Natasha Chick
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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Nora Mei
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Do keep in mind that many of the shots were started from ‘trigger-happy’ (irrational) police officers. Literally a female photographer got shot in the eye by a police officer who willingly targeted her. She lost that eye (you can google it to check). (I am white, btw).

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viola hello
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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To the person "not calling out either side" here: for a group of people hung from trees until 1960s, maced when trying to vote (NC 2020), and terrorized across the nation on a daily basis to "keep them from getting uppity," 7% seems low.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah there are always a few bad eggs in every group. Unfortunately a group is usually judged by their weakest link. These good protesters are trying to change America for the better, and the bad eggs tag along and take advantage of the situation.

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Louloubelle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

To @scyth. You are so completely wrong. I sat in Kenosha and watched several very peaceful protests from my front step. Not once did those protestors get out of line. But there were certainly a lot of trump supporters there to stir up things and make people think they were. I saw a number of trucks where people broke off, and changed their license plates once they left the protest. And then threw their trump stickers back on their vehicles. You're just a complete racists. I've seen your comments here before and you sicken me.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Peaceful protests really showcase a group's dignity. Personally, violent protests don't make me want to hurry to support that cause. Kudos to participants in peaceful protests/rallies!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I don’t doubt it, it’s just the violent protests are the ones “worth” reporting on.

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k1ddkanuck
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Whereas almost 0% of white supremacist rallies were peaceful. But please remember BLM and antifascists are supposedly the real danger to society folks! Pesky people trying to stop lynchings and police murders...!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is an excellent example on how a violent minority (as in percentages) can screw things up for the peaceful majority.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Peaceful protests aren't exiting and do not sell well. Riots and looting on the other hand make excellent news that can be used to divide the country even more.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It is true. The news will say 'while the protests were mostly peaceful....let's look at this one violent event and replay the video clip 4,000 times'. So even though they say "mostly peaceful", the images are all of violence and looting.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's just like the vast majority of people attending Pride are dressed fairly normally and only a few extravagant guys are almost naked or have buttplugs in, etc. But all the people against those focus on the few (I'm not saying those are doing anything wrong, by the way) and use them as an argument against the event as a whole.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Most of the people causing the chaos could not care less about Black Lives Matter. They start riots to make it easy to steal. Just thieves seizing an opportunity.

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Dre Mosley
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah, well according to the MAGA crowd, they're a terrorist group and should be feared. SMH.

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Camille Jones
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And some of the violent ones were started by far right agitators who wanted the protests to turn ugly

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

And the other percent of those rampages were actually from white supremisists trying to make Black Lives Matter look bad.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

@Natasha Chick. I really want to understand something, according to a report by Statista Research Department 157 Black man died in Police shooting in 2020. Little over 800 in total. And yet death of only 25 people has made you sound as if you don't support the BLM protest. What is the calculation here. Death is OK as long as there is no property damage or is it that you just oppose killing of certain kind of people?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I completely support anyone's right to protest over an injustice. All I was trying to point out is that you have to take percentages into context with the rest of the data to make it a meaningful statistic. 93% of 10 is a lot different to 93% of 1000. Im certainly not saying that the death of "only" 25 people means that I think its ok for police to kill people and I'm really not sure how you got that from my comment.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

7% is a misleading number. If 10,000 people show up at a protest event, and there is even a single incident of violence, that whole protest is included in the "7%" figure, since it involved violence of some sort. And yet, in some cases the violence involved only a single person or two. So 99.98% of the people there were non-violent in such a case, not just 93%.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

In that same time-period, many more people died of smoking, traffic accidents, murders, suicide, and so on. And last but not least, Covid-19. Why don't you complain about these atrocities? Get focus!!!!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Yeah! And all that gets put in the news are the bad ones!! Ugh! Our world is so messed up!

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Idk where they got this . I live in l.a and many protests were deadly

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backatya
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why do black people single out their race when racism has been done to most races in history? Should their title be End Racism?

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tell that to the thousands of innocent people who lost everything to them, some even their very lives. But let's not talk about them.

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wasn't there a video that shows a black person at the BLM protests kicking a white person's head, I completely support the protests, but that's taking it so far, the police also need stricter rules so they don't kill more people.

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Louloubelle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where? Why don't you give a source instead of just throwing up some hearsay to stir the pot?

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BLM is a terrorist organization run by the democrats and funded by George Soros. Do your research before you post some pissy ass rant

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Louloubelle
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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Why don't you do your research before you call people terrorists? Give me some proof here. You're clearly a conspiracy theorist.

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Most of the protests were small size protests that weren't noticed by anybody. So only a few protests were large, and all of the violent was from those large protets. It isn't looking for all of you people who are duped by blm.

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So 7% of the protests were violent. That's not good, especially when we know that people were killed, and businesses and lives were destroyed. They're making this seem like the "mostly peaceful' narrative wasn't disingenuous in the least. If I punch you in the face 7 days out of every 100, and I "Mostly peaceful"?

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If you count all the "Jim Bob and His Sign in Nowhere, US.", you can easily achieve this statistic.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Censoring a town name is next level stupid. It's the town name! That's the whole point of it.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I too, am hated because of my superior plumbing skills 😞. I feel you Mario.

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3 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

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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