When it comes to trivia, you most likely won't benefit from knowing why James Michael Tyler got to play Gunther the barista in Friends or why a super-rich Swedish man bought a chunk of the Amazon rainforest. But on the off-chance that your local pub quiz master decides to ask about these things, better come prepared!
And an excellent place to do so is at "Mind Blowing Facts." This internet project shares tidbits of information about the world we live in and also includes complimentary photos to help these tiny lessons stick in our memory for a little longer. Continue scrolling and check out some of its most popular posts!
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Surprisingly, going through (and applying) random facts can also be good for your mental health. Experts say that playing trivia games can provide a dopamine rush much like gambling, but without the negative effects.
Even if the actual games differ, the benefits are there nonetheless. Whether we're playing Trivial Pursuit at home or attending a pub trivia night, the basic premise remains the same: we experience the thrill of providing correct answers to questions about lesser-known facts.
We have a similar gang here. They also accompany bullied kids to school to let their bullies know that a biker gang has their back.
"You get a rush or a neuroreward signal or a dopamine burst from winning,” John Kounios, Ph.D., 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.”
What is wrong with people that they would do that to the poor bunny?
Actually, I think that cub is eating his leg while mama bear distracts him......
Kounios said the benefits can also be similar to those of playing a video game.
However, unlike gambling and even video games, Kounios said trivia is generally not a problematic habit.
“I don’t think there are any pitfalls,” he said. “Like anything else that’s fun, it takes up time.”
Imagine if other countries did that! It would revolutionise the world!!
I spoke with a police officer about this when I was out there, I asked if they ever worried about another country seeing them as a weak target and invading? He said just said 'No. It takes 2 people to have a fight and 2 countries to have a war. If you don't fight, there is no war'. It took me a few years to really appreciate the logic, now I think it would be nice if everyone thought like that.
Tell Poland, the Netherlands, Denmark and Norway that. They were neutral before ww2 but were invaded anyways.
Load More Replies...However their national police force also had lots of armored vehicles and machine guns..not exactly no army other than name. But also they have a treaty with the US that we protect them in case they are attacked. There are many countries without militaries, they tend to be small and all have treaties with bigger powers to protect them, most of them with the USA, Australia, or the UK. In the case of Andorra, it is Spain.
The UK is not without weapons and it's not a small country. It has a huge navy and sells weapons to the Saudis. No treaty is as good as having your own army if indeed you need one since any ally can be in impossibility to help. You clearly have no idea about military strategy.
Load More Replies...The US pays about $50 million a year for Costa Rican security as well as having a high Coast Guard presence in their waters. Good for them though. Education is the best way to avoid/win war.
Yes, the U.S. picks up the tab so they can spend their money on schools.
Load More Replies...Yeah that’s all great and all, until you are attacked by a country that invested in tanks and soldiers.
What they did in the old days is just raise the flag of the country that invaded them. No need for war anymore
Load More Replies...That s**t wouldn't fly in the States, we prefer to waste as much money as possible on military 'toys' while simultaneously not taking care of the Veterans we lovingly gave PTSD too all in the name of war. As long as it's not the rich marching off to war, we don't give a f**k about the soldier's well being.
Imagine nothing to kill or die for, imagine all the people sharing all the world.
Visited Costa Rica n learned they have 0 military. Place is hella wonderful! Clean air and an air of peace
It's nice, but it only works because bigger countries protect those countries. The US in this case. This only truly works if EVERY country abolished their military and stopped fighting wars, and we all know that will never happen.
The only reason anyone would conceivably invade Costa Rica would be as a launching point for a land invasion of Nicaragua or Panama, neither of which seem particularly likely. It has no strategic value, and trying to fight Costa Ricans in the mountains and rainforest would go about as well as it went trying to fight the Japanese in the Philippine Sea. Not well.
Load More Replies...imagine if other counties did that?! one is assuming education means a better more caring compassionate person. Human nature is still cruel and desires to control others. Defense against forces of ill intent require arms. A book doesn ,t work to well stopping a bullet
That's great as long as a neighboring country doesn't decide to invade. If Britain had done this in 1939, today Brits would all be speaking German.
That's nice. Cute Canada we have both a high literacy rate and an army. Though it's not as huge as some other ones but that's okay
This I really like. I spent a day in a Costa Rican school and went from Grade to Grade. I wished with all my heart that our Jamaican schools would be like that , especially having teachers like those who were well read and well rounded.
Cost Rica has defense treaties with regional powers including the US. So there is that. People on here tend to be naive and short-sighted on matters pertaining to human nature and defense
This! Yes! :D When a whole government is capable of such change, that is the brightest hope that can just be, how isn't this on the top? :(
Instead of killing people, lets kill illiteracy, innumeracy, unemployment, hunger, homelessness, etc
Do they teach how to think or what to think? Hugh differenct between the two.
In 1949? I'm, a little, ashamed to say that I have never heard this before.
Ditto, Mark! How embarrassing that the US can't boast that kind of stat?!!?
Hey USA! Imagine how great America would be if our money were spent on education.
A quick internet search shows that the US spends at least $12k per student, the same as many countries that outperform the US. It's almost like it's not about the amount of money spent on education but on where it goes within the bloated bureaucracy.
Load More Replies...Imagine if all our children were suddenly learning Chinese as a first language. Have you hugged a vet today?
No that is because they want to monopolise the world's oil reserves.
Load More Replies...Would be even better if they had a social and healthcare system that allowed them a few days off to take care of a sick spouse. After 30(!!) years of hard work that needs to be possible without having to worry about daily income. You shouldn't have to rely on stranger's charity for that.
Sometimes we think of the brain as an endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime's knowledge. But is there a point where it reaches maximum capacity? In other words, can the brain get full?
The short answer is no. Brains are more sophisticated than that: a study published in Nature Neuroscience revealed that instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.
I know a few billionaires in this country who could take a page from this guy.
This kills me. It just kills me. Gratitude, it seems, is forever for some.
Scientists wanted to investigate what happens in the brain when we try to remember information that’s very similar to what we already know. (This is important because similar information is more likely to interfere with existing knowledge, and it’s the stuff that crowds without being useful.)
So they examined how brain activity changes when we try to remember a target memory, that is, when we try to recall something very specific, at the same time as trying to remember something similar (a competing memory).
Researchers taught participants to associate a single word (for example, the word sand) with two different images – such as one of Marilyn Monroe and the other of a hat.
They discovered that as the target memory was recalled more often, brain activity for it increased. At the same time, brain activity for the competing memory simultaneously weakened. This change was most prominent in regions near the front of the brain, such as the prefrontal cortex, rather than key memory structures in the middle of the brain, such as the hippocampus, which is traditionally associated with memory loss.
How horrible that everyone in that kid's life failed to provide basic information or support
The prefrontal cortex is involved in a range of complex cognitive processes, such as planning, decision making, and selective retrieval of memory. Existing research shows this part of the brain works in combination with the hippocampus to retrieve specific memories.
If the hippocampus is the search engine, the prefrontal cortex is the filter that determines which memory is the most relevant — this suggests that storing information alone is not enough for a good memory. The brain also has to be able to access the relevant information without being distracted by competing pieces of data.
"Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely." One of my favourite quotes but I cannot remember who said it.
However, don't be scared. In daily life, forgetting actually is actually beneficial.
Imagine that you lost your bank card. The new card you receive will come with a new PIN. Research in this field suggests that each time you remember the new code, you gradually forget the old one. This process improves access to relevant information, without old memories interfering.
So, next time you think that you can't do anything big because you are too small....
Very few people would have the guts to do this. I hope he was not harmed in any way.
I was fortunate to see Notre Dame before it burned. I am glad its beauty has been restored.
The umbilical cord was wrapped around the baby’s neck, so the doc threw on a gown and shoes and ran to her room to help.
And I just discovered that one of my friends who barely finished high school is an antivaxxer who "refuses to put poisons in his children's' bodies" because clearly barely graduating high school gives you a superior understanding of science than that of the people who dedicated their lives understanding how organic chemistry works!
Its so sad the US refuses to implement social programs like free child care and free higher education because it fears "socialism" when it's clear these programs make huge impacts. But there is always money to bomb some poor brown people
R.I.P. Everyone who died in 9/11 and in the years after as victims of the US retaliation of 9/11.
https://worldoftanks.eu/en/news/history/Mariya-Oktyabrskaya-story/ For more info.
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A positive page. Like it a lot. Stop censoring words though. Suicide, kill, die etc are all words that are in use daily in our countries, stop being so weak. If the story is about death or suicide then they deserve to have the full weight of the language that fits.
Especially if the person's life was lost in service of a higher cause eg the kids that donated their organs etc. It reduces the impact of that act.
Load More Replies...Ireland has never forgotten the Choctaws’ generosity. Now Irish people are reciprocating by donating to a fund for Navajo and Hopi communities hit by Covid-19. Soul family.
What a wonderful thing to read about. Won't hear about it here on our News programs. All of them are so biased.
Load More Replies...Why is Bored Panda sensoring certain words? We know what they are, so why sensor them? Bad words meanings don't change, so sensoring them makes no sense.
I don't know why I put an S in censoring. I thought it looked wrong. Sorry.
Load More Replies...NOOO ITS OVER!! I really loved this article and it made me feel very very happy inside. Thank you for spreading joy throughout this world! :)
I'm about to quit This Thing. To obscure letters in some words is ridiculous. They weren't obscene, just life. This will probably be deleted!
A positive page. Like it a lot. Stop censoring words though. Suicide, kill, die etc are all words that are in use daily in our countries, stop being so weak. If the story is about death or suicide then they deserve to have the full weight of the language that fits.
Especially if the person's life was lost in service of a higher cause eg the kids that donated their organs etc. It reduces the impact of that act.
Load More Replies...Ireland has never forgotten the Choctaws’ generosity. Now Irish people are reciprocating by donating to a fund for Navajo and Hopi communities hit by Covid-19. Soul family.
What a wonderful thing to read about. Won't hear about it here on our News programs. All of them are so biased.
Load More Replies...Why is Bored Panda sensoring certain words? We know what they are, so why sensor them? Bad words meanings don't change, so sensoring them makes no sense.
I don't know why I put an S in censoring. I thought it looked wrong. Sorry.
Load More Replies...NOOO ITS OVER!! I really loved this article and it made me feel very very happy inside. Thank you for spreading joy throughout this world! :)
I'm about to quit This Thing. To obscure letters in some words is ridiculous. They weren't obscene, just life. This will probably be deleted!