Okay, anyone who doesn’t enjoy feeding their brain with fresh random facts, raise your hand! I clearly sense a silence behind the laptop, and it’s no wonder that educational social media has become so popular lately.
While wasting much of our lives on the screens, we at least get to learn something useful to pump our brain muscles or get ready for trivia battles. And if you’re one of the facticionados (does this word exist?!), you probably know the Twitter page Uber Facts very well already. With a whopping audience of 13.6 million followers, it’s an ultimate powerhouse for random knowledge nobody knew they needed.
According to the account’s description, it features “the most unimportant things you'll never need to know,” so you get the fun aspect of it. Below, we wrapped up some of the most interesting bits of knowledge shared on the page, so I leave the stage to them!
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I hope the cat got a medal and lots of treats for her good deeds
That is a great idea - encourages people to do good by showing them exactly what good they have done so far.
With educational social media accounts getting more and more popular every day, you start to wonder how many of them are actually legit. After all, no so-called “fact” shared online can be taken as it is, as we have to remind ourselves that fake news spreads six times faster on social media than facts.
Also known as fake news, these pieces of disinformation can even be used as a political tool and weapon, and poses a real danger to those with an untrained eye. Sometimes, however, the information gets so disseminated that you may not even suspect it's faulty.
So to find out how exactly an average Internet user like us can learn to separate true facts from false information, we previously spoke with Daniel Markuson. Markuson is the cybersecurity expert at NordVPN and he shared some very useful tips and insights. Markuson explained that there is no foolproof method to separate truth from misinformation.
But a general rule of thumb is to check the source’s credibility: “This particularly applies to social media platforms because they are optimized to increase engagement and lack appropriate gatekeeping features that filter out misinformation.”
When it comes to determining if the news source is credible, there are some telling signs to look for. It turns out that, often, unreliable news sources impersonate well-known ones by misspelling their names in the URL. “Similarly, they might use unconventional domain extensions instead of the usual “.com” or “.org.” In general, make sure that your news comes from established, well-known sources. These types of outlets get information directly from primary sources and must uphold their reputation.”
But honestly, who would tell their boss they´re getting an abortion? This is a very intimate topic and I am sure for assumption of costs there are some forms to fill and some Becky in accounting that would gossip to others about it. At least that would be something I wouldn´t be willing to risk..
A cat, too. I sometimes feel like the hole in my life since I lost my little guy will never heal.
So true. I lost my cat of 14 years (he was born at home when I was 15) last year and I still can't see a video of a cat being overly affectionate with someone without tearing up. I'm sorry for your loss.
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To this day, losing our family dog was the most painful experience for me when it comes to losing a loved one ... and I like to add that all of my grandparents aren’t alive anymore.
Me too. I lost my grandmother and my dog in a span of 8 months and am still mourning the dog. Not so much my grandmother. But my grandmother had a very long life - 91 years old but my dog was only 8. :(
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Yup losing a furry companion (or non furry like a reptile) is really hard, especially for people without children or a partner
It's actually proven to be more painful. Not just as painful. Losing the unconditional love given by a dog or other pet has a more detrimental effect on an individual's mental health than losing someone like a parent, child, family member or other loved one.
I lost my dad in 2021. he is my best friend. He is my hero. I love him more than anything. But when I lost my dog of 12 years in February... it was way harder to handle than losing my dad. Not because I loved my dog more or anything but because it's a different kind of loss. I spent every single day for 12 years with my dog. She did everything with me. Including go to work. My dad was in my life but I didn't see him daily. I did talk to him almost everyday. But like... coping with losing my dad without my dog & Vice versa was so fucken hard. Losing both people & animals suck. But they're different kinds of loss & pain. Ya know? Equally gut wrenching but in different ways.
I am so, so sorry for your losses. I can't imagine the day i will lose my father - just thinking about it makes me cry. I have lost several dogs now and it is always hard, but i don't think it could compare. There will always be a dog in my house because i can't imagine s life without them, but once my dad passes,that's it. I do live in tje same hiuse, though, so maybe it is also about how much we are around them.
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I lost my ten year old cat ( i was there for 1st and last breath) in December and i'm am still on a daily struggle
When my dog died, it took about 4 year before I stopped tearing up at the mention of his name.
Or worse if we're totally honest. My dad lost his father and his dog a few years later and, I swear to god, he can't even talk about that dog without getting upset. He loved that dog more than life. He was a really good dog but it affected him more than his own father- whom he was very close to- dying. To this day he can't get another dog because it just hurt too much.
Of course it is!! Every pet I've lost took a piece of my heart with them :(
For me it's worse. I'm not capable of empathy towards humans, but I develop attachments to animals.
I agree that losing a pet can sometimes be worse. The love we get from a pet is total, pure and unconditional. Losing that is really, really tough.
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What my Lucy went through the last night of her life was a horror that I try so hard not to think about. Because of how she was behaving I couldn’t drive her to the emergency hospital because it was the middle of the night and didn’t want to call and wake anyone up. My heart is shattered to little shards and will never be put together again. I was so depressed I ended up in the hospital. I have a wonderful cat now. When I got her we were just supposed to be frens, but she has worked her way in and now I love her for the amazing kitty she is. Losing our pet can be so painful, but we all mostly get another one. The love is always worth the pain you know will come one day.
It's more painful. My little girl dog Mia was with us for 14 years. Every day for 14 years. As an adult, who's been on her own( married, no kids) ( yes I love and see my family, the ones that are left) But losing Mia, it's just not fair.
HOW BOUT LOSING A CAT AND A DOG WITHIN ONE YEAR. I STILL CRY EVERY DAY.
The loss of any pet is devastating because pets love us unconditionally. They put humans to shame in the affection department.
Losing any fur baby (or non-fur) for that matter. They are part of our lives, family members without question.
And cats, my cat who has been with me literally since my mom got pregnant with me died this year. So did my dog of 2 years. When the cat died I said, through tears, "well at least the dog can comfort me" and then he died a few weeks later. I miss him. This was in February and March.
Losing a dog IS losing a loved one. See the answer above about the fact that it has been proven that dogs love us, too.
More so, I'm with my dog every day. I see my cousins maybe once a year.
Pets are loved ones. All pets, dogs, cats, hamsters and assorted others,
I would adjust that to say losing your animal companion is painful for everyone.
i think that people should be allowed bereavement leave from work for their pets, same as if a close family member dies.
Losing a dog IS losing a loved one!!! Sometimes it can be worse than losing a human.
I lost my dog and a cat within eight months of each other 14 years ago and two cats within six weeks of each other last year. All were 13 years old. I still miss them dreadfully and the pain truly never goes away.
The feels on this one... I know, I have somewhat loved and loss. Makes me think I could've been much better (doggo had a caring family in mine but I was rarely there myself). T_T
This.... okay granted this is uber we're dealing with, but either this is A, not surprising, or B, claiming that a pet can't be a "loved one".
When asked about the reasons why fake news has become so widespread, the cybersecurity expert said that it’s “due to factors that concern both the content of the messages and the technological foundation of platforms on which the news is proliferated.”
“Fake news is usually related to current affairs and makes remarkable, emotion-inducing claims. This, combined with the fact that social media platforms collect data on what kind of posts users spend the most time on and feed them content with similar characteristics, provides the perfect conditions for the spread of misinformation,” Daniel concluded.
I can confirm, my father cooked more often than my mother and now I am doing the ironing :-)
I always say I’m a terrible liar and clearly lie about tiny things that I won’t get in trouble for just so I can get away from the bigger trouble by lying like a mastermind. Oh man, what did I do with my life?
I‘m glad I‘m not a seahorse. I can barely manage to walk in the morning.
Did you know? Tony Soprano used to get a lot of calls from real life "wiseguys". Someone once called to criticize him for wearing shorts in the show. "A don never wears shorts," they said. Tony never wore shorts after.
Well cos it's normal to love and hug your kid. They feel safe and accepted.
That is actually fascinating. Alarming that it can affect the brain in such way, but fascinating nonetheless.
For the sake of context, is "mass shooting" defined as more than two people shot in the same incident, or is it a higher number? I'm not being flippant, I want to know the definition as commonly understood (there's a difference in defining murders as spree, mass and serial, and I wanted to know if shootings are the same)
Which means cashiers in the US are running 20 marathons each year, or more than 1 and a half each month.
Where was this fact when I punched that mean girl who stole my colouring book back in 1st grade?
We had a road ad in my state for a while 'Wipe off 5, stay alive' though being Australia it was 5kms
with all the bills pilling up to pay, there's will be no one in a mood to laugh
Put the lime in the coconut and drink dem bode up and call me in the morning.
Depends on the country, drywall for example burns a lot easier than massive concrete walls.
Recently I discovered that nearly all the music listened to since i was like 8 is emo music (despite not even knowing at that age what an emo is or how to differentiate music styles) and still can't believe it took me until 20 years old to notice that.
Student debt, medical debt, unreasonably high rent/mortgage? $100000 may seem like a lot, but not that much when a single accident or disease can put you several tens of thousands in debt.
just today we found 3 kittens, being dump in a dumpster outside my office parking lot. they were put inside a tied plastic bag . there is really no shred of humanity left to just take the poor babies to shelter. I hope whoever did that will have a horrible death
I'm a Nintendo girl through and through, but have to admit the ps2 had great games. Never had one myself, but would play at friends' houses.
Who comes to the idea to count such things? They've got too much time...
Problem with a lot of these facts on Bored Panda is that you can't really know whether they're true.
No, but you can be certain that people believe them. Which in the modern world counts as a fact.
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Problem with a lot of these facts on Bored Panda is that you can't really know whether they're true.
No, but you can be certain that people believe them. Which in the modern world counts as a fact.
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