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..
Recently a collegue just up front told everyone at work she took a few days off to have an abortion. I was stunned but I think she set a great example. No one gave her s**t, just al lot of empathy. (I am not living in the USA obviously.)
Load More Replies...Not out of altruism though - an abortion is cheaper than maternity leave, additional insurance costs, and other issues.
What maternity leave? The US does not really have that. Disney seams to allow 5 weeks paid and 4 weeks unpaid maternity leave. Netflix allowed unlimited parental leave in the first year (don't know if it is paid), but only for the white collar workers. In comparison Germany has laws that ensure Mothers and Babys safety. Mothers get 6 weeks before and 8 weeks after birth free by law. This is not maternal leave but mother protection, as a birth (regardless of the way she gives birth) is stressfull for body and mind and mothers need this time to get back on their feet and to bond with baby. After that it's 3 years of parental leave where your employer can't fire you and has to give you either your previous job or something similar, when you come back. You get paid up to 1800€ during this time, depending on your income. + the "child money" you get from the state for every kid you have until they are 18 (219€ per month). And this is all regardless of type of work, income, skin color etc
Load More Replies...Until they are charged with aiding and abetting. 😢 Seriously USA, when do cells have more rights than a female!
A gun literally has more rights than women
Load More Replies...when can women make their own decision about every aspect of their life freely?
This is the most logical and intelligent comment so far!
Load More Replies...Because paying for their abortions is cheaper than giving them a paid maternity holiday!
I've been seeing this comment a lot. Remember that some of the women affected do not want children at all. How would maternity leave help them?
Load More Replies...Kansas City, MO is offering city employees the same. The MO AG filed suit, mayor of KC basically said bring it.
? Ikea is a Swedish company. They would be shamed if they did not give the same care to their employees in the US as their employees in Europe get.
Load More Replies...It's cheaper than paying for maternity leave. Their evil, not helpful.
Because they don't want to cover maternity leave. Don't fall for this propaganda.
This is absolutely nonsensical. These companies donate millions to the very politicians that caused this mess. How nice that they're now going to nominally offer this benefit, that they know they'll never have to comply with as not many women are willing to ask their boss for an abortion. And this still leaves millions of women without access at all. If they really want to show us that they care about this, they'll stop running millions of campaign dollars to right wing anti-abortion candidates that promise them tax benefits.
Is it hypocrisy if these companies also donated to the groups working to elect the Republican politicians who supported overturning Roe v Wade?
It's cheaper to pay for an abortion than for months of paid parental leave. Those companies just checked their numbers.
Who in the USA gets months of paid maternity leave? Everywhere I’ve worked, people have to use their own sick time (which is rarely more than a couple of weeks) and then go unpaid for the rest.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately, they continue to donate money to anti-abortion politicians.
Will they pay for an employee to go to where they can get treatment for an orphan disease?
But think what that would do to convince people that (1) it really is health care and (2) it really is the woman's decision and no one else's
Unfortunately the employees of these companies usually can afford it, what about those with no jobs or that work for low paying jobs such as retail and fast food.
Hobby Lobby is too based to be giving people abortion money
Load More Replies...Would have been better if they petitioned and lobbied to keep abortion legal. Maybe remove your business from states that don't support abortion rights.
They are doing what they can to thwart the Republican dictators
It's Disney..they have fans all over the age spectrum
Load More Replies...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.
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.
Load More Replies...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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