50 Unique And Random Facts You Can Use In Conversations When You Run Out Of Things To Say
Whether it happens around the office coffee machine, the BBQ party's grill, or at the bar, running out of things to say is a real possibility when you're having small talk. And depending on the level of your social anxiety, the uncomfortable silence that follows can be pretty deafening. So in order not to end up in such a situation, let's take a look at the Facebook group 'Unique Facts.' From intricate personal stories to fascinating trivia about the animal kingdom, and beyond, these posts will definitely give you some random ideas on how to save your next failing conversation.
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This is Saint Boniface. Actually, they let the unhoused sleep there during the day, not overnight. The church helps in many other ways too.
My church in Melbourne also lets homeless people sleep there during the day.
Load More Replies...If they want to be tax-exempt, all churches should have to do that. Or something similar to prove their value to the community.
I live in the UK. The churches I know do a lot for the community. Coffee Drop-ins, Food banks, etc at no charge.
Load More Replies...Too bad they can't repay the kindness by actually using a toilet instead of the floors, walls, and other shadowy corners. Oh, and the outside of the building too. Trust me when I tell you to never visit SF if the temp is forecast at 80 or above. The whole city stinks to high heck. Not just the human waste, but every single dumpster too.
I was born & raised there and it where my family homes & my home are. But I no longer live there. It’s a shell of what it once was. Which can be attributed to two main issues: decriminalizing being unhoused whilst also being a refugee city caused many other municipalities to bus people directly to the SF Transbay Terminal. At one point, over 1500 new unhoused people with addiction and/mental health issues per month. The second problem is the tech industry & techbros coming in & driving out all the creatives. Artists, musicians, poets. The hosing cost skyrocketed. My grandparents bought their home in the 50’s for $75k. It’s now my home & property tax assess it at $2.5M. My mom’s mortgage-free home has more in yearly property taxes than she earns. These tech folks build their fortresses, not communities/neighborhoods.
Load More Replies...St. Boniface Church allows people to sleep on the pews and access the toilets. St. John the Evangelist also allows people to sleep and their Mission offers various services. St. Mary's Cathedral did things a bit differently back in 2015 by installing sprinklers in the doorways to keep the homeless people away.
Here in Vancouver, Wa, it sickens me to see so called "churches" on large plots of land, while homeless sleep beside the river and highways.
Unfortunately, in all too many places in America, it is illegal for them to do so. One of the many, many, many moral abuses of zoning laws that lead to the conclusion they should be banned.
Load More Replies...You so seldom see one of those big, expensive church buildings being put to good use. I believe their Christianity. No so much with some of the others.
This is supposed to be surprising fact ! This should be the fricking natural super common act of the church and not hunting down the weak ffksake
I mean, I grew up in the Catholic Church. I'm an atheist, but I only ever saw positive examples, compassion, and charity from the priests. Some of the people were judgmental Karens and Richards, but that happens in all churches/religions. It wasn't until my parents converted to evangelical that I saw actual cruelty and physical and sexual abuse. Every Pentecostal or Victory church my mother has been a part of has had a scandal where the pastor had an affair with a young parishioner. 4 separate times the dudes were caught sleeping with 16-18 year old girls, but since most evangelical churches are independent, they're never collectively held accountable. I bet for every Catholic priest caught abusing kids, there's 10 evangelicals who did worse. But that's just my hot take based on experience
It is so unusual for a church to do that, that it is actually worth posting it.....dunno if this is a good thing 🤔
How about we use church buildings for something useful and convert them into homeless shelters and low-income housing.
I’m pretty sure he got in trouble and fiend for doing this. I can tho it’s his business and his church. Our leaders are evil
that sad thing in the UK is that some unscrupulous people would take the chance to rob the church, many churches who left their doors unlocked for centuries now have to lock their doors as they have been robbed, they have even had the lead stolen from the church roofs
Leeds cathedral opens the crypts for the homeless in winter (don't worry, the bodies were moved out years ago)
Just Church? Why not churches? There's gotta be a couple 100 dozen at least just across California alone.
If they want pads, they can use one of the many shelters available. But 80% of them refused a shelter bed when asked. Shelters have rules.
Load More Replies...A lot of churches do this and more. It just doesn't get talked about.
There's a very good chance that what this church is doing is against the law. Churches, despite being a nonprofit, still have to obey zoning laws. I ask you, how many bathrooms does that church have? What is the max occupancy? Etc. A church is generally *not* zoned for habitation, and thus can actually lose their nonprofit status in a worst case scenario by allowing this to happen.
I'm curious. Have you ever been IN a church? Of course they have bathrooms. Sleeping in pews takes more space than a fully occupied sermon would. Sleeping in church is very common - usually during sermons.
Load More Replies...In Italy, however, there is a parish priest who has opened the doors only to immigrants (illegal ones). To be clear, just because they are in church doesn't mean they aren't dealing d***s or stealing. In Italy, we have a very serious crime problem due to uncontrolled immigration.
The popularity of this group, together with the Instagram account 'Facts', Facebook page 'Now You Know' and countless others illustrate that people still love trivia.
And while nobody can claim to have invented "knowing random stuff for fun," the trend gained a lot of ground in the '70s.
The original Jeopardy! daytime game show premiered in 1964 and the nighttime syndicated version started airing in 1974, around the time pub trivia began to take off. While these events probably evolved organically, the first formalized version came about in 1976, when Sharon Burns and Tom Porter peddled quizzes to pubs in southern England.
At first, the plan was to just give bars a way to get people in on slow nights, but the concept became a huge hit. In the US, groups like Pub Trivia USA and America’s Pub Quiz organize city- and state-wide competitions, often with serious cash prizes.
“We don’t want people to walk into a bar and feel like they can't contribute for a round,” Cullen Shaw, co-founder of the NYC Trivia League, told GQ about what makes for a good trivia night.
Is not so much for liberating the country (US and Polish troops also played a big part in that) but for keeping the royal family safe during their exile. And temporarily changing part of a hospital Dutch soil so that the princesses were born in the Netherlands.
"If there’s a really difficult 17th-century poetry question, maybe there’s one person in the bar that knows that, but a sports question comes up after that and they let someone else answer. That's what’s fun about team trivia," Shaw explained.
Then again, you don't even need to be on a team to participate—or even leave your home. Hundreds of thousands of people log on to various apps to play every day.
The draw toward trivia seems to be rooted in our natural curiosity and desire for challenge. "We are a competitive people," said Shaw. "We like games; in general, humankind has gravitated toward them."
People also enjoy alcohol and socializing, so a combination of all three—plus the bragging rights that come with answering a tough question that nobody else did—creates an activity with lasting appeal.
Imagine what my life would have been like if BP had censored the word 'd**g' effectively in the above image. I could have been someone.. I could have made positive change in the world.. I could have lived with purpose. Sadly, my young mind was corrupted in an instant and I am now spiralling into darkness. My once promising mind is corrupted and I shall only know torment until my blackened heart rests at the end of what will surely be a cursed life. Why, BP? WHY? Tell your children what has happened here today, lest they sink into the same deep, dark cavern of woe.
Svalbard, Norway. And it's threatened by climate change, so...
I have A neg. I signed up to donate blood some years ago and I've been donating regularly. It seems to be a rare type (at least in my area), because I am sometimes contacted by someone from the donation center and asked if I could come on day X for an urgent blood request. It's cool to know you're really helping someone. Someday you might be the one in need of blood.
Plus, playing trivia games also gives your brain a workout, as it requires you to recall facts, make connections, and think critically under pressure.
"[Trivia questions] can engage your brain and reward/dopamine responses," said Alan D. Castel, Ph.D., a professor of cognitive psychology at the University of California.
This is incorrect. So much so, that a reddit post this was also listed on was deleted. Rabbits very much can "walk," it's just not the norm because of their body structure. Their bodies are more conducive to hoping so it is more efficient for them to do so. Just like we can hop, but we are built for walking/running. Hopping is inefficient for humans. If you've ever seen newborn/baby bunnies, they do a cute little "walk" before they learn to hop. Also, many rabbits that sustain foot injuries/illness will walk until they are healed. I hate TikTok but here is a link to video of what a rabbit looks like walking: https://www.tiktok.com/@grahamandsmores/video/7238260936979664171 Sorry if it doesn't work, I don't actually have a TikTok & just copied the link.
They're an offshoot of the Chinese Red Delicious; like the majority of apples are cultivated to be this way, not natural. The growing conditions are very specific so incredibly hard to duplicate hence why you don't see others trying to grow them. You can, however, get the Arkansas Black Apple, which is very similar in appearance though tart rather than sweet. Also cultivated of course.
Calling it a diamond mine is a bit like calling a mountain stream a gold mine just because panning for gold can actually produce a modest amount of gold. The place is Crater of Diamonds State Park, and park statistics say that about 1 of every 200 visitors finds a diamond. A few very valuable diamonds have been found, but the park says that most aren't even appraised. I'm sure it can be fun, but it would be a mistake t think there's a good financial reason for a visit.
"Some research has shown that people are in fact willing to gamble, and even subject themselves to electric shocks to satisfy their curiosity for trivial knowledge that carries no apparent value, and may share neural mechanisms with that of hunger for food—showing the almost primal power of curiosity," Castel added.
I know in my brain it's an octopus, however, doesn't that look like my man's carrying a 8 armed Alien through the water?!?!?
Copying my comment from below. I watched several architect videos stating that such buildings were absolutely unsustainable and an absurdity (issues with constantly having to care for the trees, inc roots growing, flats being infested with bugs (inc mosquitoes) to the point where inhabitants don't open their windows) massive use of water etc. Several people in the comments who lived in such buildings seemed to validate these points...If you have some further feedback i'm interested
Or maybe just plant a tree? In the US, these tanks would be vandalized and broken in no time at all.
Really cool to eat a lemon afterwards, but the sweet-taste is little bit different than ordinary sugar.
No, thank you. My dreams are really weird, usually involve strange architecture and not enough bathrooms, and watching them once in my sleep is quite enough.
and thousands of square miles of rainforest are destroyed to make place for sugarcane plantations (one article said 16.3 thousand km2) So it is very bad for the environment
SUBARU is Japanese for a cluster of six stars, which the Greeks called the Pleiades – part of the Taurus constellation.
In Greece a 44yo woman started a wildfire because she wanted to see the firefighters in action 😥
Good news! We won the war with no casualties! Also, this is Kevin. We adopted him. He’s now a new citizen
To be technically correct (the best kind of correct), Sol is a G-type main-sequence star (G2V) - also known as a yellow dwarf, though its light is actually white. It appears white on earth - otherwise everything would be yellow tinted. It only appears yellow when the light has to go through a lot of atmosphere, such as at at sun rise/set
Most of Europe is like that. We are actually perplexed on how easy it is to get a license in the US, and how little training you have for driving a multi-ton killing machine. American drivers are also charged premium insurance prices when renting cars in some EU countries because they have a higher accident rate.
I'm Dutch but I don't know these walls they are talking about. Actually our country is only 300km or so from North to south. Maybe they mean the combined length of all our waterworks, including dykes, dams and the like. We do have lots of dykes. At the coastline it's mostly dunes though.
China's 70.2GW of new construction ("of coal power plants) getting underway in 2023 represents 19-times more than the rest of the world's 3.7GW
Okay but Rolls Royce are RARELY used as a daily use vehicle whereas Toyotas are. If you don't use a thing every single day, it will almost always last way longer than the thing that you do use every day.
Multiplied by the hundreds of millions of tons of apples produced in a single year equals not that uncommon actually.
Fake news that (big surprise) started with a single tweet from an account that seems to only do parody. The guy does look an awful lot like the actual soccer player, but that seems to be the only accurate part of the "story".
This is absolutely horrible! As if it wasn't bad enough that they continue to kill animals for their ridiculous medicines (rhino horn instead of boner pills), now they're going to decimate snake populations to make some ridiculous booze! 🤬
Interesting factoids, but the multicolor fonts are annoying as hell.
As usual, these come direct from another source with no changes other than any censorship B considers necessary. In this case, the post come from a Facebook group, and, well, Facebook.
Load More Replies...These factoid collection is just so full of BS that scrolling through is frustrating. BP once again shines for its utter and complete lack of editorial effort or fact checking.
And once again, those pointing this out are downvoted. Frustrating is definitely the right word.
Load More Replies...I mean some of these where nice but BP used to be so much better a few years ago. It's sort of the reason to why I created an account in the first place.
Why bother? Their unions would only cover it up and the customer will lose every time!
Interesting factoids, but the multicolor fonts are annoying as hell.
As usual, these come direct from another source with no changes other than any censorship B considers necessary. In this case, the post come from a Facebook group, and, well, Facebook.
Load More Replies...These factoid collection is just so full of BS that scrolling through is frustrating. BP once again shines for its utter and complete lack of editorial effort or fact checking.
And once again, those pointing this out are downvoted. Frustrating is definitely the right word.
Load More Replies...I mean some of these where nice but BP used to be so much better a few years ago. It's sort of the reason to why I created an account in the first place.
Why bother? Their unions would only cover it up and the customer will lose every time!
