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.
Was sent to the ER after bw found low hemoglobin, got 2 blood transfusions, was told hopefully it worked, as there’s been a shortage, that I wouldn’t need a 3 rd bag, luckily I didn’t, but made me think of now donating, what would’ve happened if I didn’t even get the first 2
That's really neat. My dad donated for over 60 years. The only time we know with certainty that his blood was used is when he donated to me. Neatest thing about this fact is he adopted me when I was 7 after he and Mom married. I now officially have his blood.
I live in the UK and it happens here too. You can even see the route it took from donation to use on Google maps.
A friend had to have blood and it was just after I'd donated, it went to the hospital where she was, I know we can't prove it was mine, but it was a nice moment
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In the US, when someone's organs are donated, that family can opt to be contacted by the recipient's family.
I would love that. I donate plasma And I would be thrilled to get info that my plasma was just used for pills or put in IV into some poor soul
Many years ago when I gave birth to my 2nd child I needed a blood transfusion. I'm A negative. Found out when my dad came to meet his new granddaughter that he had donated blood the previous day, same blood group as me. I'll never know if I got his blood but I like it to think I did.
My idea of giving a present (or donating blood) is - I gave it to you, do what you will with it. I don't need any other information.
NY Blood Center in the US does that too. I would donate anyway but this gives that extra bit of reinforcement.
I lived in the UK for six months thirty years ago and now I can't donate because the US Red Cross thinks I might have Mad Cow disease.
I once had a blood service phlebotomist tell me that when they tested my blood they found I hadn't had some virus that most adults have had. Apparently that makes my blood suitable for newborns and frail elderly people. Very tricky, now I have to give!
Speaking as a Swedish blood donour, I can confirms this, and it always inspires a nice feeling in my heart when I get that little text that my blood has been put to good use. A very small thing, but very pleasant.
I wish I could donate blood, but I can’t get anyone to take it! (Apparently I travel too much).
Blood banks in America do this to- if you give blood to the Red Cross they tell you which hospital it was used in (:
I'm O negative. I get texted every four weeks by the Red Cross to donate (8 weeks if I do red-cell donation). Never heard if I've saved any lives.
For all the blood and plasma donations I have done I would love to know this.
Florida will notify you of where the blood went, but that's it. But, it is better than nothing.
Well in the USA blood banks take your blood for free. Then charge thousands to the person who needs it to save their life.
There is a reason they don't pay for your blood -- it would encourage people to lie on the forms that insure that the blood is safe. Blood from the US is sent around the world because of its reputation as being the safest. I agree that the amount that they charge is often way too high for something that they got for free, though.
Load More Replies...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.
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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