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50 Random Facts To Entertain Your Brain Cells, As Shared By “Quite Interesting” Twitter Account
There are nearly 8 billion people on this planet, and everybody constantly wants to know things. Whether you're into astronomy and the whole chicken or egg thing, or you're simply a curious person – all the answers that humankind can give you would probably be not enough, and it's absolutely understandable. We're floating God-knows-where around a bunch of fairly similar and large astronomical bodies while having to get up and go to work every single day – how could you not wonder about things?
However, sometimes looking for answers can do no good. An existential crisis can seriously mess up your whole nervous system, which is we have multiple options that can help us get away from reality whenever we need to. But from time to time, it gets rather samey and watching a show or scrolling through your feed doesn't keep you entertained anymore:
This is when a Twitter page with over 1.3M followers dedicated to "quite interesting" facts comes to the rescue: nearly 50K tweets worth of lightweight and educational posts that'll keep you occupied for hours. We've gathered a few of the best ones, but don't hesitate to use the comment section to add your "quite interesting" fact.
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Besides, the “Quite Interesting” Twitter page is actually a game show that currently broadcasts on the BBC Two channel. It started out in 2003 and already has 19 seasons. However, the quiz show has more of a comedic twist where well-known British personalities compete and score points not necessarily based on the correctness of their answers but the funniness. And as for the plot of the show, it focuses on the participants answering obscure questions, making it almost impossible to give a correct answer, which is why humor remains the main focus.
Definition of imposter syndrome: "Imposter syndrome is loosely defined as doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. It disproportionately affects high-achieving people, who find it difficult to accept their accomplishments. Many question whether they're deserving of accolades."
there obviously preparing for the international peanut butter famine of 2024
I don't know if it's true but I've heard ginger cats are mostly male.
Absolute nonsense, and when I tell my cats about this they'll come and beat you up
I would say it depends what you consider to be rocket scientist, someone who is part of designing the rockets then nah not smarter, I could be part of that, but then the people who figured out how you can get that chunk of metal safely to space, using earths gravitational pull, managing to attach it safely to the space station that is moving 8km/s (5 miles per second) in orbit, and then plummeting it back to earth safely without burning everyone on board to crisp, dont feel like average people could do that.
They studied aerospace engineers for this. It's quite an interesting study, I've linked it if you'd like to have a look: https://www.bmj.com/content/bmj/375/bmj-2021-067883.full.pdf
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This doesn't even make sense. The "general population" does not have a level of intelligence. Only individual people do. If you're talking about statistics, then a better way to phrase might be "Rocket scientists do not have above-average intelligence" (which I personally find hard to believe) or "Rocket scientists are only in the top 40 percentile of intelligence, not top 1 as one would think," or something like that.
I think it's technically that the distributions of intelligence of the 'general population' and 'aerospace engineers' overlap significantly, so there is no statistically relevant difference in the averages. A certain percentile would still be seen statistically as a shift in the entire population. But that statement is very difficult to interpret for people that have not studied statistics.
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I suppose it’s the sort of job that weeds out and explodes the less intelligent ones.
If you run into one it's best to bring a brain surgeon with you and let them duke it out.
My brother is a rocket scientist. He has a PhD from Stanford in mechanical engineering. He's an absolute genius. But, he lost the keys to his rental car inside a restaurant. Had to wait 2 hours for the company to bring another key. As far as I know, the key was never found. Definitely absent minded.
OK...You have to exclude a LARGE proportion of the general population...maybe they are not fully human...you know Make America Grate Again ...no spelling errors there. They are all about friction.
I'm pretty sure plumbers installed less known saxopipes in our house.
System of a Down's album entitled "Toxicity" was released two years before Britney Spears' song "Toxic." Just saying.
"Only"? Human beings have been around for 150,000 years and 1/15 of the total are alive now.
The tweets don’t have sources but boredpanda didn’t mention that the Quite Interesting Twitter is the one for the show QI which, while it does make mistakes and misrepresentations, has a hefty team of “QI Elves” which research this stuff. https://qi.com/elves
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I like theses because you can be stupid and funny which isn't a stretch for me! But I do Google a lot after - Is that a good thing?
The tweets don’t have sources but boredpanda didn’t mention that the Quite Interesting Twitter is the one for the show QI which, while it does make mistakes and misrepresentations, has a hefty team of “QI Elves” which research this stuff. https://qi.com/elves
Load More Replies... I like theses because you can be stupid and funny which isn't a stretch for me! But I do Google a lot after - Is that a good thing?
