The internet is an endless source of information, both vital and completely irrelevant. And diving in this sea of dense information where it’s easy to get lost, some sources of content prove to be golden nuggets.
Like the Instagram account with a rather laconic title “Not Common Facts,” which provides exactly what it says. With a mind-blowing 7.3M followers, it’s social media’s beloved destination for interesting, unheard, weird, and quirky facts to pump up that trivia muscle.
Below we selected a batch of the most entertaining ones that you may not have heard, so scroll down and upvote your favorites as you go!
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That makes this beautiful wedding dress all the more special.. Wow! Such a skilled woman...
I like the way they use reading to reduce the sentences of the prisoners with an activity that can help them in the long run. (The reading, not necessarily the book report writing.)
Every fact we stumble across on social media has to be taken with a pinch of salt, so that's why we must fact check it. You see, whether it's COVID-19, climate change or migration — fake news spreads six times faster on social media than facts. Those pieces of disinformation, known as fake news, are harmful. They are partially or often completely false and deliberately disseminated to influence political views or generate as many clicks as possible.
The danger of fake news is the fact that to an untrained eye, the average internet user, it’s very difficult if not impossible to separate it from credible information. To find out how exactly we can separate true facts from false information, Bored Panda spoke with Daniel Markuson, the cybersecurity expert at NordVPN, who shared some very useful tips and insights.
It's also great for the economy. Giving people more opportunities to go out, vacation, spend money etc. does wonders to the economic cycles -- and it makes happier employees.
While there is no foolproof method to separate truth from misinformation, a general rule of thumb is to check the source’s credibility, Daniel said. “This particularly applies to social media platforms because they are optimized to increase engagement and lack appropriate gatekeeping features that filter out misinformation.”
“It is also important to weigh the claims against other sources. If a publication makes monumental claims that are exclusive to that platform, do not take them at face value,” he added.
When it comes to determining if the news source is credible, Daniel said that sometimes 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.”
If you’re still not sure, Daniel suggests looking into the author, researching them, and making sure their credibility is up to par. “It is also important to weigh our own perception and not let our biases skew our understanding of events. Seek out differing opinions and try not to associate facts with ideological dogma.”
I’ve never seen this picture and I’ve got to say, this is F***ing scary as s***. Like, there is absolutely no question as to this lion’s intention and it really strikes me that humans can read faces of different species so well; and also that the exact same expression can be read on the face of a human. That’s probably part of why I found it so scary. It reminded me of a human. “Here’s Johny!”
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 always wake up before my alarm, but that means i cant sleep in on weekends either
Just spoke with my mom about this very thing at 2:30am this morning. We all do this but when it is over such little things that are easily resolved or are in the process of being handled it will enhance anxiety, stress, and depression. It is not worth it. We only have one shot at life and why let smaller b******t take you out.
Well they found out a lot of the centenarians are actually people who died and whose families never reported it to keep collecting pensions. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-pacific-11258071
My wife would look at the floor, because I probably did something inconvenient.
Sometimes I fall asleep and jolt up thinking someone called meh but nop😅
Those are called hypnopompic hallucinations. Totally normal
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Little story here (my name is not majorly common): it happened some years ago when I was a teenager and lived still with my parents, house and big garden (for European standards). So sometimes when I was in the back of the garden to care for my rabbit I heard my name being called. Always kind of muffled but clear enough... so I rushed to the front of the house to see what my parents want from me. But in 9 of 10 times none of my parents were there... this goes on for about 3-4 months and i started to doubt my mental health. Finally i brought the topic up at supper - turns out we got new neighbors (I hadn't been aware of) and they got a little child named just like me. So I indeed had heard my name being called, only that it was not me that was meant :p
They took a vote and settled on the majority opinion?
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it's the weirdest! certain sounds in certain songs sound exactly like my name-
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If your name is Mark and you live in the Netherlands where the most common word to be accented in a sentence seems to be "maar", do you get healthier?
This happened to me at an audition last week. I got embarrassed, thinking "Oh great, now all my competition thinks I'm obsessed with myself". Glad to hear it just means I have a healthy mind. Lol
I live in a foreign Country where my name sounds the same as a very very common word. I'm forever jumping around wondering if someone was calling me.
When I hear my name being called, it's usually followed by a lot of swearing and the words "What the hell did you do?" or "How the hell did you do that?"
Today I heard a new one. "Why the f*ck did you do that?"
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Happens to me at work. By far the creepiest thing I ever experienced. I've left with out shutting down the lights, turning off the compressor and not setting the alarm before. Weirdest part I do not hear my actual name, Melissa, I hear my nickname at work "Swish" Doesn't bother me in the morning when I'm here alone but if it's at night when I'm the one closing I dash my ass out the door. Very haunted shop.
This is nonsense, suggesting that a specific aural hallucination while AWAKE is a sign of a healthy mind. In a partial sleep state, sure; awake, well, there's meds for that.
I'm hearing ringing. Sounds like my school bell. Wait. That is my school bell!
As a kid I sometimes heard my named np ring called when I was falling asleep.I thought it was my guardian Angel watching over me.
Nope, it's more of a sign that I'm gonna throw myself onto a wall if I keep hearing it-
that's because the brain is wired to perceive patterns in randomness. it's evolutionary: those who could see the eyes of a wild animal in a pattern of forestry or hear an infant in distress in a sea of random noise were more likely to survive and have kids that survive, even if those stimuli weren't always there.
Haha when I’m listening to an audiobook on headphones with the door closed:
So hallucinating a voice is calling to you means you got a healthy mind.
Not really. Hearing voices is not that healthy. Hearing your own name might mean your other self has no friends and the two of you should work on that.
Might i ask what this other self is? Genuinely curious, I've never heard of the concept before
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But just your name....If the voices tell you anything about following people and more, ignore them
I thought it was part of Exploding Head Syndrome. Calls my name so loudly it wakes me from a dead sleep. Also hammering sounds, explodey sounds, and... squelches?
Or is it because I'm hallucinating due to the..."vitamins" I recently injected?
I thought I heard someone call my name after have two root canals and driving home on that freeway. I had just bent over to throw up and I guess something told me to avoid the impossibility of ever removing the odor of puking and turning to chum I would become after the semi slammed into my car.
What about hearing a conversation that no one is actually having?
Tell that to the psychiatrist who hospitalised me for two weeks for this very thing
I don't hear anyone calling my name but I often get woken up from a deep sleep by my doorbell ringing or someone knocking on the door but no one is ever there. Combined with my hearing my heartbeat inside my ears 24/7 means I don't sleep well
No one likes my name, even my wife, so I never hear it called. I'm stuck with various nicknames.
Well I move never heard my name being called, and this is true because my mind is extremely unhealthy.
It used to be like this for me. Now, with 2 children, what I hear is "¡Papá!".
I'll keep and eye on my none black friends because my hair does not float.
Is that because kissing is a health benefit or because one day she just decided "Meh, insurance company will pay out" . . . . . .
The artist is Duane Hanson, one of the masters of hyperrealism
As in "all oxygen atoms dissapear", I figure. Not only the free ones, but also those bound in anything.
Don’t mind me. Just trying to cover up something posted by a racist jackass.
My first impulse was to say he deserved a medal, then I thought about police, emergencies, etc.
Being with someone who causes you endless drama and stress is worse than being alone AND smoking!
During a war his father took 2 year old him and his brother to the forest after a bomb killed the rest of his family. Fearing that the war wasnt over they built a shelter and stayed there for 41 years. When an explorer found him and exposed him to the outside world he simply went back to the forest inspite of the endless opportunities. EDIT: i may have phrased the last sentence wrong. I forgot to add that we should learn something from him
Is it me or is it that only the richest people seem to get free stuff. I mean, it seems that they could afford a box of chicken nuggets.
What kind of a bug? Because when I try going on youtube on my xbox, sometimes the first icon works, but sometimes it crashes. But then I try accessing youtube by going in "other apps" and then it works fine.
As a German I can say, that it is not common. Ususally bride and groom spend the nights apart or at least prepare separately on the special day
Untrue. Our males have been becoming less and less big compared to females since the time that we split from chimpanzees. The sexual dimorphism of our species is much smaller than previous humans and smaller than chimpanzees and other mammals. This is done by sexual selection and occurs in species that are more social, less violent and whose males tend to cooperate in child rearing. In that case females prefer males that are more "feminine" looking, opposed to violent species where the males do not help with the offspring (like gorillas) where males are much bigger than females. Primitive humans were not huge brutes that needed to defend their females from other males. They cooperated with the females, who could also defend themselves.
I wonder if Bored Panda knows what “facts” are and they they have to have some sort of substantiated proof before peddling them as “facts”? Some social media account doesn’t count as a “source”.
Nope. No editing. No fact checking. Just some bored teenager slapping stuff into a list.
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Hi BP, I hate to be blunt, but all your censorship is giving me a sexual death orgasm. I think I need pills and Marijuana.
Why are normal, common, everyday words being half-assed censored? This is a sincere question. Can anyone provide an answer?
What a lot of rubbish. Most of this stuff is made up, badly worded or distorted.
Cause everybody knows, if it's on the internet, it has to be true
And this stuff was on the Internet, and now is on it again, here, so it's extra true!
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I wonder if Bored Panda knows what “facts” are and they they have to have some sort of substantiated proof before peddling them as “facts”? Some social media account doesn’t count as a “source”.
Nope. No editing. No fact checking. Just some bored teenager slapping stuff into a list.
Load More Replies... Hi BP, I hate to be blunt, but all your censorship is giving me a sexual death orgasm. I think I need pills and Marijuana.
Why are normal, common, everyday words being half-assed censored? This is a sincere question. Can anyone provide an answer?
What a lot of rubbish. Most of this stuff is made up, badly worded or distorted.
Cause everybody knows, if it's on the internet, it has to be true
And this stuff was on the Internet, and now is on it again, here, so it's extra true!
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