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.
Same!!! I started singing "Please give me a remedy" as soon as I read it 😅😅
Load More Replies...Jamais means never in French, so Jamais Vu would translate to 'never seen'.
Tha!t's cos we've deja viewed them -- repeats. Weird illustration for the concept. Wuh?
Load More Replies...I have this, my neurologist told me that it is a symptom of my epilepsy. When I'm on enough medication, it stops happening.
That sounds frightening 😟 Wish you the best!
Load More Replies...What's with the picture, has that happened to me before? Will it happen again?? And I won't remember???
So that's what it's called. I feel like that right before a nasty migraine.
Like me at work encountering the same problems yet I cannot recall how I solved them the previous times. Vow to write it down. Get busy and never writes it down. Encounter same problem two months later and wish I wrote it down.
DA DA DADA DA DA DA DA DA DA ON THE STAGE DREAM SOME RANDOM KOREAN WORD I DON'T KNOW DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA NCT DREAMIES YA YA YA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA DA I'LL DEJA VU DA DA DA DA IDK welp there's dreamies ateez and dremcatcher idk which one
I KNOW I've read this before, but I can't for the life of me remember what happens next....
One time when I was incredibly sleep deprived, I looked in a mirror and saw myself just like normal, except I completely freaked out because it seemed as if I'd never seen myself in a mirror before. It was a shock to acknowledge that I had a physical form. I literally ran terrified out of the room. I don't know if this was jamais vu, or more like a disassociative event.
Okay, has anyone every had deja vu about deja vu? Like you experience something and swear you've felt it twice before, and start having deja vu over having deja vu last time? Just curious, because I totally do and it's so annoying.
When I was a kid, yes. That's how it always felt, as if it had happened many times before, and I'd be sort of reminded of the experience by something else again, later. As an adult, I don't have any deja vu at all. I've never understood what was meant by jamais vu, though. I can't relate
Load More Replies...That just broke my brain. I thought that was deja vu. I get it all the time. But I can never remember if it happened or not. Just familiar and a memory of that exact event that only happens as it's happening.
No, what you described is the classical well known deja vu. What this post describes is the opposite. You literally are reliving a situation that you know it happened before. And yet, it feels like the first time ever.
Load More Replies...Sometimes I fall asleep and jolt up thinking someone called meh but nop😅
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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!
Load More Replies...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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