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.
Mine meows louder and louder until she gets what she wants, then it's a tiny, breathy meow like "f*****g finally!"
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My cat has a different meow for each of us. The one for me demands food, whenever she sees my oldest son she chirps and for the youngest one she has a very soft purrlike call
Mustve studied my cat Atti (Ms Attitude). Every morning, im like "Whos the pretty kitty, who wants tuna pretty girl". I get the same look, "me MF'er, me" all while she is looking dead at me then struts away.
My Katsy always meowed when I called her. She didn't come to me mind you, sometimes we would "argue" for up to half an hour. I always imagined her complaining "Just 10 more minutes mum" when this happened and if my neighbour was outside she would crack up laughing at us both.
My cats always try to pretend they didn't hear me, but I can always see their ears flick towards me when I speak.
How human of them—-if you substitute boss, mother, father, wife, husband, or whomever you prefer to ignore, for human.
Same with dogs. Unless it’s for a treat of course. (Yes my dog is spoiled as it should be.)
My cat responds 90% of the time and comes when I call him... the rest of the time, he does not give a sh*t...
And the oter way round too. You'd think one meow is pretty much like another cat's meow, bbut my cat had a very distinctive 'prrreow' that I would recognise a street away.
They know their names, too. They just don't always feel like coming on command.
My cat recognizes the sound of a cheese knife. He's also a cheese snob. Loves gruyere and manchego. The second we slice into those, he comes running. Not a fan of parmesan or cheddar (unless it's really sharp). His absolute favorite though are soft cheeses like brie and mozzarella. That said, he will steal string cheese out from my kids' hands.
I get royal ignore from both my cats... but their meals mainly fish brings them to the kitchen on regular basis.
It took us over a year to figure out our elderly cat was stone deaf
They're not pack animals so they don't have that instinct, and they don't see why they should develop one either! Cats consider turning up for meals good enough.
So cats are the teenagers of the domestic animal world. Then what are goldfish
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?
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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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