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.
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.
Sadly common back then. The Kennedy's weren't any better for all the love they get from the public.
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And these cousins, who belonged to the Queen Mother’s family the Bowes-Lyons, were not part of the royal family. As well, they had financially solvent parents and later adult siblings who decided their care, not their aunt or cousin. If your aunt and uncle made a decision about your cousin’s care, should you be vilified for it?
The royal family has said they did not know the fate of the Bowes-Lyons sister. Given the way that people with intellectual disabilities were treated in the past (effectively locked away and ignored), I don't find this difficult to believe.
It's so sad that this is how mentally/intellectually disabled people were treated then. It was normal and acceptable to do this so many people did. My grandmother (born in 1912) had a sibling who was institutionalized when they were children so when she gave birth to my uncle in the 40's and was being encouraged to admit him to a facility she refused. She had 9 kids and he was the 4th oldest with everyone caring and looking out for each other. Today my aunt cares for him and I care for my brother. Our family refuses to send family away; if we're capable of caring for them then we will. Though today, there are group homes and they treat the residents great and are taken care of very well; actually are beneficial for many and can instill a sense of independence because they live "on their own with roommates".
What the Kennedy family did to their daughter is a disgrace to Boston
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Lady Katherine and Lady Nerissa Bowes-Lyon also lived with some other cousins who had similar issues. They were declared dead to "protect the Crown" so that there could be no questioning the royal bloodline. Queen Elizabeth II had no idea and wasn't responsible for this. Her mother, Elizabeth Bowes-Lion, was responsible.
The Kennedy family in the USA: "In her early young adult years, Rosemary Kennedy experienced seizures and violent mood swings. In response to these issues, her father arranged a prefrontal lobotomy for her in 1941 when she was 23 years of age; the procedure left her permanently incapacitated and rendered her unable to speak intelligibly." --Wikipedia
I honestly find it disgusting that there are still royal families on Earth.
The Victorian era had some really cruel attitudes toward people who were not "perfect".
This is why Camiila and Charles were not allowed to marry and reproduce.
There were some very good reasons why the US ditched the asylum system. We just didn't get to the part where you have to replace it with something, because that costs actual money
They were visited but surreptitiously as the senior matriarch’s thought it was bad for perception of the Royal Family.
Yes, they speak about this in the Crown. Very sad. Also, how times have changed.
It was common practice then. Within 30 miles of my home in England, there were 3 huge Mental hospitals. Some had their own railway station. Any perceived problem was hospitalised. My mother is 93, her older cousin was committed as a young girl because she stole things. She became institutionalised and died there in the 60s. The family visited her right through. My mother's generation believed doctors were always right.
This is a sad, sad story. The family had 5 daughters, of whom 2 were severely disabled. How tough on their parents (especially their mother, who was widowed young); even though they were rich (and I suspect slightly inbred, causing the genetic disorder) it would be tough!
Lots of inbreeding in British royalty, I'm sure there are more horror stories like this.
That's what inbreeding gets you. Feel bad for them b/c that's not their faults.
I can't say much. We just found out about a relative who was put in an asylum back around the same period of time and was murdered there. Everyone at the time was just under the impression that she was in an accident and died. No inbreeding in our family either.... families are just weird.
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Looks like the royal family has some "very, very bad genes"... If you know what I mean.
Wasn’t the royal family, it was the Bowes-Lyon family.
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"Nerissa Jane Irene Bowes-Lyon (18 February 1919 – 22 January 1986) and Katherine Juliet Bowes-Lyon (4 July 1926 – 23 February 2014)[1] were two of the daughters of John Herbert Bowes-Lyon and his wife Fenella (née Hepburn-Stuart-Forbes-Trefusis). John was the brother of Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, the Queen Mother, so the two daughters were first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II and Princess Margaret," - Wikipedia
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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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