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.
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.
Agree to disagree on this one. The women's team wins tournaments and draws attention to the sport. The men's team is a solid team, and does well within CONCACAF, but it doesn't draw the same kind of viewership. The mens team just shouldn't get paid as much as the women.
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Makes sense. Males team has been disappointing. Females did great in the World Cup.
The facts are that women were paid more, not less, but had a different deal structure that they choose (the women team declined the mem deal). However, it ended up that having the men's deal would have paid them more because they did better than expected, so the women's team sued to get the men's deal (which they initially declined). The USSF settled because of the biased media coverage, although the women's team lost in court.
That should make the 200 people in the US who actually watch soccer very happy.
Snob. I would really like to watch american football women's Team, now that i think of it
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https://youtu.be/k33MXVaJhLc Basically, women pay structure went with a base salary of $100k and then performance based bonuses, while men went with pure performance pay wins and losses.
equal pay should be automatic for the same task no matter the sex of the workers.
Women were offered that deal in the beginning and rejected it, opting for a less performance based contract.
The blind hate for wage disparity did quite a thing on this topic. Before the sanctimonous high-horse riding from one player, who obviously has trouble with math, they were actually being treated fairly. They had the option to choose from two kind of contracts.The guys had a result-based wage, the same contract was offered to the ladies, they rejected it and went for the fixed-wage model. Then they won some tournaments and she started crying that they don't get paid by result. My 12 year old understood the difference, few of these ladies did not, and bullied the rest of the team into a wage-gap frenzy that wasn't. These ladies now have a better contract, by unilaterlly deciding the orginal contract wasn't good enough, exploiting the wage-gap and the metoo outcry, but did nothing for the future of women's soccer.The wage gap is a real problem, these ladies aren't helping the cause one bit.
Womens team should be pain more since they have more gold medals, World Cup championships, and and bunch of other stuff.
The ROI isn't equal. The men's teams bring in more revenue than women's teams.
The men will be pleased to hear that they are getting a payrise. They're rubbish compared to the women!
They've been paid more than the women despite being rubbish AND generating less revenue. Normally the reasoning behind women's teams being paid less is that they bring in less money. That is usually true here in the US. Not for USSF.
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The guy in the office next to me shouldn't be making more unless he does more, of course. But as a feminist and to play devil's advocate, I think it doesn't make sense in some situations, and it has nothing to do with gender. The reason Tom Cruise makes 40 million a movie is because his name is what draws people to the movie. If he wasn't in the film, not as many people would go to see it. Therefore his salary is justified as what the market will bear for what he brings to the film- no matter how good/bad an actor he is. Same with certain sports. I think it's crappy that a lot of people don't pay the same attention to women's sports as they do to men's, but I think paying them same amount is reinforcing a stereotype that woman are to be treated differently by getting a paycheck they may not have earned- which is against what we're fighting for in the first place. Sports are entertainment- your pay depends how much people like what you do. (1)
(2) Entertainment is subjective; all Kim Kardashian has to do is film herself waking up in the morning and she gets a million hits and that why she gets paid a ton of money. An office job is not; there are a set of rules and a handbook to follow that says this is your job and here are your goals. If you don't reach it you get fired. The guy sitting next to me shouldn't make more money for the same job. But a youtuber complaining that they don't make the same amount as KK and it's 'not fair' can't sue youtube to get equal pay because they can't force more viewers onto their channel. And sports- despite how much people love them- are entertainment.
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When the men's team need childcare or maternity leave do let me know
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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?
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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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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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