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 :-)
On the same note, I'm a woman who grew up with my parents (M&F) sharing house work and I have an expectation of that in a male partner. I've never accepted being handed the housework simply because of my gender.
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Hmm that might be the reason why we do not have as much toxic masculinity here compared to the US for example
Toxic masculinity is everywhere. I don't think it's higher in the USA but maybe we should look it up! Anyway, there are countries in Europe who have quite a few people who are behind in feminism and still want a traditional (read: old fashioned) life style.
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I wash, cook clean, sew and iron better than most women I've known. I guess I'll make a great wife someday. LOL
My dad was proud to be able to order pizza. My mom did the cooking. Now I'm the chef in the house.
Well my kids shouldn't have a problem but my husband grew up in household where women did women things and men did men things changed about three years in the marriage
I'm no expert, but I think their development nhangs on the abikity of the mother to teach him how to behave. It is probably mostly mirroring how the woman is treated in contrast to the man, so when no man is there, it's likely they won't pick up nasty chauvinism unless mom encourages it
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Having had 3 husbands, #1, wouldn't do anything that didn't involve eating. Not cooking, cleaning, anything, and hated it when I had to interrupt his TV viewing passing in front of him while doing housework. #2 didn't like the idea of kids. I had 3. # 3 took on 3 existing kids and 3 more in the process, helped with the housework and the kids, and my sons have followed suit. Sometimes to their detriment.
I love my father (and mother!) for having taught me this as a child. I'm the eldest of six and it's made my life so much easier. I'm a male, not that it matters, but a lot of guys think that cleaning and cooking is the role of females. (I do ALL the cleaning and my wife does ALL the cooking, she loves it. It works!)
My dad was all around better at everything more so than my mother. He could sew better than her too and his cooking was tops as well! She never got upset that he was better at things than her.
Yeah my dad does a lot of work from home so he also gets house work done and cooking is soothing to him so both he and my mom split up the cooking. I am now realizing this is probably why when my friend dared me to stand on a picnic table in the quad at school and shout “burn the patriarchy to the ground!” I did it so willingly. It was one of the few times I have had to courage to scream about something to everyone that weren’t people I hung out with everyday lol
My whole life my dad has cooked for the family and it surprised me when I learned that women were expected to do that.
I hate DIY stuff such as building flat pack stuff, but I do it to show my daughter that I can do it. I'm also the tech person and adrenaline junkie in our house, my husband is the book lover and chocolate connoisseur.
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.
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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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